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What The Factual? / Facts The Way I Like It!

Gill Smith & Pete Moor

Hosts, Gill Smith and Pete Moor look into the history books finding the lesser known stories behind the characters we all learned about at school.In each episode Gill and Pete tackle a different subject from famous monarchs, world changing leaders to characters and stories that have gone under the radar.What The Factual? tells the interesting or funny stories from history with fun facts and strange tales sprinkled along the way.From December 2024, each Friday, spin off series "Facts The Way I Like

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What The Factual? Episode 5 - The Vikings

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2024/01/03

Gill & Pete look at Gill's unashamedly favourite group of pillagers, The Vikings (Norsemen) and their effect on Britain and possibly a bit too specifically, The Wirral. Plus Gill asks a very specific Viking question and gets far too excited about the Whale Road.Shownotes:References used in this episode:https://www.history.org.uk/primary/resource/3867/the-vikings-in-britain-a-brief-historyhttps://www.twinkl.co.uk/teaching-wiki/history-of-vikings-in-england#:~:text=The%20history%20o

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What The Factual? Episode 4 - A Factual New Year!

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2023/12/27

Gill & Pete look at historic New Year traditions and superstitions and how everything seems to involve fire, why January is "Wolf Month" and what colour underwear you should wear on New Year's Day. Plus, Gill achieves one of her own resolutions!References for this

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What The Factual? Episode 3 - The Bumper Christmas...

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2023/12/20

The Bumper Christmas Episode!In Episode 3 of What The Factual? Gill and Pete look at Ghosts of Christmases very much past and find out why everyone seemed to want to set themselves on fire around the holiday season...Plus we find out that a sponsorship deal with Coca-Cola is just a phone call away.References used in this

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What The Factual? Episode 2 - Henry VIII's Wives

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2023/12/13

Gill & Pete (well, mostly Gill) explain King Henry VIII's dating history and why he just didn't seem to have the best luck in his love life. How each marriage ended, why some of his relationships were "cut short" and how the rhyme "Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived" should have actually gone and why Catherine Parr was the only wife to make it to the 19th hole.Also we answer our avid listener's question of where the phrase "Chew The Fat" comes from... or at least we

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What The Factual? Episode 1 - The Christmas Truce

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2023/12/06

What The Factual? is presented by Gill Smith & Pete Moor.Gill and Pete delve into funly misremembered stories from history and find the facts among the fictions.In the first episode of What The Factual? We deal with The World War One Christmas Truce and how or if it really happened. Also we discuss the track Altogether Now by The Farm and the fact that Gill didn't know it was about today's topic.Finally where does the phrase "to tip" someone come from?Sources for this episode are:Imperial War

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