The People's Polygraph

In which you will learn: Most authors have really cool parents An arsenal of witty quips How to spot a victorian-era gay

In which you will learn: What genre Little Women should have been The worst time of year to start a vegan commune The names of some actors who acted in things

In which you will learn: Why Douglas Adams picked 42 as the ultimate answer All about the fundamental interconnectedness of all things And somewhat due to this, also all about the kakapo... 

In which you will learn: What Tolkien did during the war What Dickens thought of Yorkshire That Wallace and Gromit is not a Book

In which you will learn: Much like Jazz learned this week - the British Library is no longer inside the British Museum How far you could drive on a road made of the British Library's collection of book spines What percentage of the world's supply of complete editions of the Gutenberg Bible is owned by the British Library

In which you will learn: All about Jane Austen's side-career as a spy /  How a woman managed to get published in the era of Men /  Exactly how little Jazz knows about Jane Austen's novels

In which you will learn: Who the new chair of the Ernest Hemingway fanclub is Not a hell of a lot about his books, but as much as Jazz could fit into an hour about his life Oh yeah - and the thing about his cats...

In which you will learn: How much joy a simple kazoo can bring Probably some other stuff too, but the kazoo thing is the most important.

In which you will learn: Not a lot really...

In which you will learn: Not a hell of a lot probably, if you are at all on the podcast scene All about Anna and Jazz's other love - D&D Where the bug-out boat is currently hiding

In which you will learn: How alcoholic beverages get us to buy them Which company employed animals to run their social media More musical theatre-based tag lines than you ever needed to know

In which you will learn Why Sondheim REALLY wrote Sweeney Todd Which of Sondheim's musicals is semi-autobiographical (hint: it's NOT Sweeney Todd) How long you need to run a show on broadway to beat Sondheim's shortest running show

In which you will learn: All about the utter legend that is the Baker on the Titanic All about the utter legend that is Harold Lowe, Fifth Officer of the Titanic All about the utter legends that were the telegraph team on the Titanic

In which you will learn: A lot of things about a band that is not actually Anna's favourite The REAL reason why Coldplay aren't touring How to write a convincing Coldplay song

In which you will learn: All about the origins of tattoos How they made their way through Europe Which age group has the most tattoos

In which you will learn: About Anna and Jazz's combined love of the TV show Taskmaster All about the show's interesting beginning A great many reasons why you should stop listening to this episode, and go and watch Taskmaster

In which you will learn: Why Jazz thinks you should care about Tim Minchin A little too much about Jazz and not a lot about Tim Minchin  

In which you will learn: How NASA avoided paying a littering fine for decades Who owns Mars Not really who owns Mars... but who absolutely has the documents that "prove" they own Mars

In which you will learn: Some actualy facts about Pliny and his life How to get away with never walking anywhere Interesting stuff about ancient music... that may or may not have been true

In which you will learn: The name of the fastest pie-eater in the world (probably) What goes into humble pie Why Waitress is a great musical

In which you will learn: What cool cats and hipsters have in common Which musical instrument was almost a complete flop If there is any difference really between Jazz and Anime

In which you will learn: That Anna reads entirely too much fanfiction That Jazz probably doesn't read enough That fanfiction is not scary - it gets young folk reading and writing... and also it's just good shit.

In which you will learn: Not a lot really...

In which you will learn: About the largest fish in the sea What we really mean when we say 'Bloop' And maybe some things you weren't expecting to learn about Aquaman

In which you will learn: How many dinsosaurs saw their 200th birthday A bunch of fabulous meanings behind dino names Eventually - which dinosaur is the most popular