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Stand-up comedians at live festival events present short historical ‘on this day‘ pieces then discuss some historical topics or people connected to the location where the live show recording takes place. This is a touring show across UK festivals and has been running since 2019. Find us at @ItJustSo1 on Twitter.
DATES COVERED IN THE SHOWS
6th February - episode 024
7th February - episode 017
10th February - episode 001
11th February - episode 018
12th February - episode 036
25th February - episode 037
26th March - episode 002
4th May - episode 003
5th May - episode 004
5th June - episode 025
23rd June - episode 005
17th July - episode 022
18th July - episode 019
19th July - episode 006
21st July - episode 007
22nd July - episode 008
23rd July - episode 023
24th July - episode 009
25th July - episode 010
26th July - episode 020
28th July - episode 011
5th August - episode 026
6th August - episodes 012 & 027
7th August - episode 028
8th August - episode 029
9th August - episode 030
10th August - episode 031
11th August - episode 032
12th August - episode 033
13th August - episodes 013 & 034
20th August - episode 014
30th August - episode 021
4th September - episode 015
28th October - episode 035
10th November - episode 016
PLACES COVERED IN THE SHOWS
Bedford - episodes 008 and 023
Brighton - episodes 003, 004 and 025
Buxton - episodes 007, 019 and 022
Dunfermline - episode 015
Edinburgh - episodes 012-014, 026-034
Faversham - episode 035
Glasgow - episode 002
Guildford - episode 009
Havant - episode 037
Leicester - episodes 001, 017, 024 & 036
Ludlow - episodes 005 and 021
Morecambe - episode 006
Nottingham - episode 016
Reading - episodes 010 and 020
York - episode 011
CONTRIBUTORS TO THE SHOWS
Luis Alcada - episode 029
Seamus Allen - episode 010
Darren Archer - episode 005
Ben Aveling - episode 008
Amy B - episode 006
Bylgja Babylons - episode 026
Matthew Baylis - episode 009
Alasdair Beckett-King - episodes 007 and 017
James Bennison - episode 003
Simon Bolton - episodes 005 and 021
Cerys Bradley - episode 004
Sanjay Brown - episodes 016 and 021
Danny Buckler - episode 009
Dave Chawner - episodes 020 and 025
Nav Chima - episode 012
Angus Coutts - episodes 029, 031 and 033
Tony Cowards - episodes 016 and 018
David Cruickshanks - episodes 002, 013 and 027
Jamie Dalgleish - episode 015
Terry Dixon - episodes 010 and 020
Dylan Dodds - episode 012
Daniel Downie - episode 015
Matt Duwell - episodes 002 and 012
Natalie Durkin - episode 031
Nick Elleray - episode 031
Ben Ennis - episodes 001, 007, 017 and 024
Sallyann Fellowes - episode 020
Adam Fisher - episode 001
Kriss Foster - episode 006
James Frinton - episodes 007 and 019
Bruce Fummey - episode 015
Jade Gebbie - episode 025
Bryan Ghosh - episode 033
Annie Gilfillan - episode 002
Annie Harris - episode 004
Gerard Harris - episodes 005, 007, 014, 019 and 022
Alex Hiscock - episodes 030 and 032
Kevin Hudson - episodes 001, 018, 019, 022 and 024
Charmian Hughes - episodes 013, 019 and 032
Fedor Ikelaar - episode 013
Radu Isac - episode 014
Roisin Kenny - episode 026
Paul Kerr - episode 008
Ishi Khan - episode 022
Charalampos Koundourakis - episode 027
Maureen Langan - episode 027
Iszi Lawrence - episodes 010 and 020
Alex Leam - episodes 011 and 029
Chris 'Alf' Leworthy - episode 030
Louise Leigh - episodes 012 and 026
Vladimir McTavish - episodes 002, 003 and 015
Lee Moore - episode 014
Jo Mungovin - episodes 017 and 024
Simon Munnery - episodes 008 and 023
Chris Philips - episode 017
John 'Richie' Rands - episodes 003, 008, 011 and 025
Paul Revill - episode 023
Chris Riley - episode 010
Andy Robertson - episode 006
David Robinson - episode 004
Rahul Somia - episode 018
Fiona Spreadborough - episode 009
Sam Stay - episode 009
Sid Sidlo - episode 006
Erin Tilley - episode 021
Tommy Tomski - episodes 011 and 016
Jack Topher - episode 001
Tiffany Trethowan - episode 023
Elizabeth Vantaa-Black - episode 021
Lisa Vernon - episodes 005, 011, 016 and 018
Adam Vincent - episode 023
Andrew White - episode 013
Sha Wylie - episode 003
HISTORICAL PEOPLE COVERED IN THE SHOWS - Date/person/episode
1274 Jul 22nd - Henry I (The Fat) (died) - Ep008
1320 Jul 21st - Louis I, Count of Flanders (married) - Ep007
1334 Aug 30th - Peter of Castile (born) - Ep021
1456 Jun 23rd - Margaret, Queen of Scotland (born) - Ep005
1483 Nov 10th - Martin Luther (born) - Ep016
1540 Jul 28th - Thomas Cromwell executed - Ep011
1554 Jul 24th - Mary I (married) - Ep010
1571 Sep 4th - 4th Earl of Lennox (died) - Ep015
1635 Jul 18th - Robert Hooke (birth) - Ep019
1637 Aug 6th - Ben Jonson (died) - Ep012
1655 May 4th - B di Francesco, piano inventor (born) - Ep003
1655 Jul 28th - Cyrano de Bergerac (died) - Ep011
1659 Jul 26th - Mary Frith (died) - Ep020
1675 Aug 5th - Brynjólfur Sveinsson (died) - Ep026
1676 Sep 4th - John Ogilby (died) - Ep015
1709 Aug 8th - Bartolomeu de Gusmão - Ep029
1727 Aug 30th - Anne became Princess Royal - Ep021
1750 Jul 28th - J S Bach (died) - Ep011
1774 Aug 12th - Robert Southey - Ep033
1797 Mar 26th - James Hutton (died) - Ep002
1797 Aug 30th - Mary Shelley (born) - Ep021
1809 Aug 6th - Alfred Lord Tennyson (born) - Ep012
1811 Jul 18th - William Thackeray (born) - Ep019
1814 Jun 23rd - Matthew Flinders (died) - Ep006
1817 Jul 18th - Jane Austen (died) - Ep019
1818 May 5th - Karl Marx (born) - Ep004
1821 May 5th - Emporer Napoleon (died) - Ep004
1827 Aug 12th - William Blake (died) - Ep033
1840 Feb 10th - Queen Victoria (married) - Ep001
1844 Jul 22nd - William Spooner (born) - Ep008
1856 Jul 26th - George Bernard Shaw (born) - Ep020
1864 Aug 16th - Dr Elsie Inglis (born) - Ep013
1865 Mar 26th - Thomas Hancock (died) - Ep002
1865 Jul 25th - Dr James Barry (died) - Ep 010
1867 Aug 13th - William Craigie (born) - Ep013
1874 Aug 10th - Herbert Hoover (born) - Ep031
1888 Aug 13th - John Logie Baird (born) - Ep013
1894 Jun 23rd - Alfred Kinsey (born) - Ep005
1894 Jul 25th - Gavrilo Princip (born) - Ep010
1907 Aug 13th - Sir Basil Spence (born) - Ep013
1912 Jun 23rd - Alan Turing (born) - Ep005
1919 Nov 10th - Mikhail Kalashnikov (born) - Ep016
1923 Feb 10th - William Roentgen (died) - Ep001
1929 Jul 28th - Jackie Onassis Kennedy (born) - Ep011
1930 Aug 6th - S.A. Andree, balloonist found - Ep027
1931 Aug 20th - Don King (born) - Ep014
1947 Jul 19th - Brian May (born) - Ep006
1962 Aug 5th - Marilyn Monroe (found dead) - Ep026
1963 Aug 9th - Whitney Houston (born) - Ep030
1962 Aug 5th - Nelson Mandela (captured) - Ep026
1964 Aug 12th - Ian Fleming (died) - Ep033
1980 Jul 24th - Peter Sellers (died) - Ep009
1993 Aug 10th - RB Ginsberg (sworn in) - Ep031
2003 Nov 10th - Canaan Banana (died) - Ep016
2004 Jun 5th - Ronald Reagan (died) - Ep025
2011 Jun 23rd - Peter Falk, actor (died) - Ep005
2012 Jun 5th - Ray Bradbury (died) - Ep025
2015 Aug 9th - David Nobbs (died) - Ep030
Also:
Graham Chapman, comedian - Ep017
King Charles II - Ep025
Sir Sean Connery, actor - Ep014
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author - Ep014
King George IV - Ep025
Martha Gunn - Ep025
Joseph Merrick - Ep017
John Profumo, politician - Ep025
Sake Dean Mahomed - Ep025
The Sheriff of Nottingham - Ep016
William Smellie, encyclopedist - Ep014
John Struthers, anatomist - Ep015
TOPICS COVERED IN THE SHOWS
356BC Jul 21st - Temple of Artemis destroyed - Ep007
64 Jul 18th - Fire of Rome - Ep019
1099 Jul 22nd - Kingdom of Jerusalem founded - Ep008
1146 Aug 30th - Ban on using crossbows - Ep021
1173 Aug 9th - Tower of Pisa founded - Ep030
1355 Feb 10th - St Scholastica Day riots - Ep001
1389 Jul 18th - The Truce of Leulinghem - Ep019
1403 Jul 21st - Battle of Shrewsbury - Ep007
1484 Mar 26th - William Caxton prints Aesop's Fables - Ep002
1494 Nov 10th - Double entry bookkeeping - Ep016
1497 Feb 7th - Bonfire of the Vanities - Ep017
1536 Jul 18th - Authority of Rome extinguished - Ep019
1545 Jun 23rd - Mary Rose sinks - Ep006
1545 Jul 21st - French invasion of Isle of Wight - Ep007
1567 Jul 24th - Mary Queen of Scots abdicates - Ep009
1587 Jul 22nd - 1st landing on Roanoke - Ep008
1598 Jul 22nd - Merchant of Venice 'published' - Ep008
1600 Aug 5th - Gowrie conspiracy - Ep026
1620 Aug 5th - Mayflower and Speedwell set sail - Ep026
1626 May 4th - Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland - Ep003
1645 Jul 21st - Qing dynasty queue edict - Ep007
1674 Nov 10th - New Netherland ceded to England - Ep016
1709 Aug 8th - 1st hot air balloon - Ep029
1745 Jul 26th - 1st women's cricket match - Ep020
1774 Sep 4th - Europeans sighted New Caledonia - Ep015
1791 Aug 13th - Queen Marie Antoinette imprisoned - Ep013
1793 Aug 10th - The Louvre opened - Ep031
1806 Aug 6th - Holy Roman Empire dissolved - Ep012
1807 Mar 25th - Abolition of Slave Trade Act - Ep002
1814 May 4th - Napoleon exiled to Elba - Ep003
1814 Jul 25th - George Stephenson locomotive - Ep010
1821 Aug 10th - Missouri made a state - Ep031
1830 Mar 26th - The Book of Mormon published - Ep002
1835 Aug 30th - Melbourne founded - Ep021
1836 Jul 19th - HMS Beagle arrives in Ascension - Ep006
1843 Jul 19th - SS Great Britain launched - Ep006
1845 Feb 7th - Portland Vase smashed - Ep017
1848 Jul 19th - Women's suffrage movement begins - Ep006
1858 Aug 20th - Darwin and Wallace publication - Ep014
1862 May 5th - Cinco de Mayo - Ep004
1865 Jul 21st - Wild Bill Hickok shootout - Ep007
1868 Jun 23rd - Patent for the typewriter - Ep005
1871 Nov 10th - Stanley finds Livingstone - Ep016
1873 Aug 11th - Schliemann destroys Troy remains - Ep032
1883 Jun 5th - first Orient Express train - Ep025
1885 Mar 26th - 1st cremation in England - Ep002
1887 Jul 26th - Publication of Unua Libro - Ep020
1892 Jul 26th - 1st British Asian MP elected - Ep020
1896 Feb 7th - 1st medical X-ray - Ep017
1897 Aug 20th - R.Ross identifies malaria transmission - Ep014
1901 Aug 5th - UK's first cinema opened - Ep 026
1904 May 4th - Charles Rolls and Henry Royce meet - Ep003
1905 May 5th - Conviction using fingerprint evidence - Ep004
1909 Jul 25th - Louis Bleriot flies the Channel - Ep010
1909 Aug 30th - Burgess Shale fossil bed discovered - Ep021
1910 Aug 9th - Thor washing machine patent - Ep030
1911 Aug 20th - 1st round world commercial telegram - Ep014
1912 Jul 21st - Titanic captain sighted in New York - Ep007
1912 Aug 6th - Bull Moose party meets - Ep012
1914 Jul 28th - Austria-Hungary war declaration - Ep011
1915 Jun 5th - Denmark women's right to vote - Ep025
1918 Jul 22nd - 504 sheep killed by lightning - Ep008
1925 Jul 18th - Mein Kampf published - Ep019
1926 Aug 6th - Gertrude Ederle swims The Channel - Ep012/27
1930 Aug 12th - Fish fingers patented - Ep033
1934 May 4th - UK driving test introduced - Ep003
1934 Aug 11th - 1st prisoners arrive at Alcatraz - Ep032
1935 Feb 7th - Monopoly first sold - Ep017
1935 Aug 6th - 1st cryogenics experiment - Ep012
1937 Aug 10th - 1st electric guitar patented - Ep031
1939 Jul 28th - Sutton Hoo helmet discovered - Ep011
1940 Feb 7th - Film Pinocchio debuts - Ep017
1940 Feb 10th - Tom and Jerry debuts - Ep001
1940 Jun 23rd - Hitler's tour of Paris - Ep005
1942 Jul 26th - Diana Walker passes Class 2 flying exam Ep020
1945 Aug 6th - Atomic bomb destroys Hiroshima - Ep012
1952 Aug 6th - Satchel Paige, oldest baseball player - Ep027
1956 Jul 26th - Suez Canal siezed / nationalised - Ep020
1960 Nov 10th - Lady Chatterley's Lover on sale - Ep016
1961 May 5th - Alan Shepard is 1st American in space - Ep004
1961 Aug 6th - Gherman Titov flies in space - Ep027
1961 Aug 13th - Berlin Wall construction began - Ep013
1963 Aug 8th - The Great Train Robbery - Ep029
1963 Aug 30th - US-USSR hotline became operational - Ep021
1964 Sep 4th - Forth Road Bridge opened - Ep015
1965 Jul 25th - Bob Dylan 'goes electric' - Ep010
1965 Aug 11th - Help! released in US - Ep032
1966 Jul 24th - 1st Base jump - Ep009
1966 Jul 25th - Mao swim in the Yangtze - Ep010
1966 Aug 8th - SABC bans Beatles records - Ep029
1966 Aug 11th - John Lennon's apology - Ep032
1967 Feb 10th - 25th US Amendment ratified - Ep001
1969 Jul 21st - Apollo 11 lands on the Moon - Ep007
1969 Jul 24th - Apollo 11 splashdown - Ep009
1969 Aug 6th - Apollo 11 ticker tape parade - Ep013
1969 Aug 8th - Abbey Road photoshoot - Ep029
1971 Aug 11th - Admiral's Cup victory - Ep032
1977 Aug 20th - launch of Voyager 2 space probe - Ep014
1979 May 4th - Margaret Thatcher becomes UK PM - Ep003
1981 Aug 12th - First IBM PC released - Ep033
1987 Jul 24th - Hulda Crooks climbs Mt Fuji, aged 91 - Ep009
1992 Jul 18th - 1st photo loaded on World Wide Web - Ep019
1994 Jun 23rd - Britannia scrapping announcement - Ep005
1994 Jul 22nd - OJ Simpson pleads not guilty - Ep008
1996 Feb 10th - Computer defeats Garry Kasparov - Ep001
1998 Sep 4th - Google founded - Ep015
1999 May 4th - The Mummy premieres in the US - Ep003
1999 Jul 28th - US regulators and the Millennium bug - Ep011
2007 May 4th - Alex Salmond 1st minister of Scotland - Ep003
2012 Aug 6th - Curiosity lands on Mars - Ep027
2016 Jun 23rd - Brexit referendum - Ep005
Also:
The Goose Fair - Ep016
Alice Hawkins, Graham Chapman, Joseph Merrick - Ep017
Thomas Cook, Walkers Crisps, local radio, Daniel Lambert - Ep018
Buxton Water, Lismore Fields, Devonshire Royal, Houdini - Ep019
Henry I, Reading Gaol, Little Chef, Huntley & Palmer's - Ep020
Sweating Sickness - Ep021
The annual sacrifice to the Roman God Sol Indigines - Ep030