Episodios

  • Ep 1: Greatest Interior Decorator
    Dec 16 2021

    Chris Addison and historian and creator of 'Whores of Yore' Kate Lister find the greatest interior decorator of all time. From prehistoric cave painters to TV's Nick Knowles, we find the person or people or thing that has or have done most to improve the great indoors.

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    35 mins
  • Ep 2: Least Deserved Statue
    Dec 16 2021

    Nish Kumar and writer and historian Subhadra Das debate the least deserved statues of all time. From the Greek god Zeus to famously tumbled Edward Colston, the team ask which statues deserve a good toppling or at least a good should-not-have-built-in-the-first-place-ing.

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    32 mins
  • Ep 3: Best Failed Invention
    Dec 16 2021

    Catherine Bohart and inventor Tom Lawton discuss the greatest failed inventions of all time. From the first wingsuits to Google Glass, the team decides which inventions, and their respective inventors, have made the world worse with their attempts to make the world better.

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    34 mins
  • Ep 4: Peak Rivalry
    Dec 16 2021

    Desiree Birch and veteran podcaster and Andy’s own womb rival (aka sister) Helen Zaltzman uncover history’s greatest rivalries. Covering not only human rivalries, but history’s greatest conceptual conflicts, the team debate everything from Oasis vs Blur to Religion vs Science in this showdown of showdowns to select the GROAT (Greatest Rivalry of all Time).

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    34 mins
  • Ep 5: Most Skilled Thief
    Dec 16 2021

    Cariad Lloyd and journalist and heist enthusiast Marcus Webb investigate the greatest thief of all time. Not limited to mere mortals, the team discuss everything from Museums to the people who rob them, in their quest to find the lightest fingered lawbreaker of all time.

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    38 mins
  • Ep 6: Ultimate Non-Violent Weapon of War
    Dec 16 2021

    Former News Quiz host Miles Jupp and historian and broadcaster Ella Al-Shamahi uncover the greatest non-violent weapon of war of all time. They'll consider things that are not only painless, but can be just as militarily fruity as any of the tools of devastation with which our great species has brutalised itself over the millennia. From the Internet to the Russian Winter the team attack, or rather viciously debate, the weapons that aren’t weapons from all of history.

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    36 mins