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

Series 3, Episode 8 of What The Factual sees Pete taking the reins this week as he meanders through almost the entire history of the beautiful, chaotic and passionate peninsular we now know as the Republic of Italy. From early settlers to constant waves of Germanic warriors to Ancient Rome and, well, a more modern Rome. They take in the people with long beards, the people who liked watching animal...

Episode 7 of Facts The Way I Like It! sees Gill and Pete don their fact sharing hats yet again. This time they look at the amazing story of Violet Jessop, different styles of music including the works of John Cage and Giraffe humming. You can judge which is the more musical. Gill has some good news from the fruit and health world and Pete breaks the story of the Nuclear Bomb disaster that nearly w...

What The Factual? is back with Episode 7 of Series 3 in which Gill and Pete look at the Georgian Era when it seemed everyone was called George. They look at the Monarchy and how a guy called Rob guided them through the turbulent times of the early industrial revolution, exploration and the Napoleonic wars. In Love Factually, Pete reveals how to find yourself in Iceland and in Chew The Fact he shar...

Here is yet another instalment of Facts The Way I Like It! Gill and Pete out fact each other again. This week they tackle big subjects including Chinese Pirates, primitive surgery and arrow head removal, patron saints and how witty they can be when being put to death as well as Christmas song Royalties. Also Pete puts us to sleep with some facts about anesthesia. Finally, next time you're on the W...

Gill and Pete return for with some great unknown (or lesser told) stories from World War 2 including the miraculous story of the ship the San Demetrio which defied the odds by surviving an attack in the North Atlantic. They also look at the brave contributions of animals as well as how the props and set building department of the film industry played its part in deceiving the German bombing campai...

Facts The Way I Like It! is back with another quickfire exchange of facts between Gill and Pete and this week they get into the truth behind the myth of night-vision enhancing carrots, why Astronauts have their name, how to buy a dinosaur skeleton and Pete finds another excuse to talk about Italy in the form of where the term "paparazzi" comes from. Finally, Gill just laughs at how Pete mis-pronou...

Gill and Pete take a good long look at Ancient Egypt with a keen hieroglyphic eye focused on the pharaohs and their legacies but they also look at the every day life in an incredibly advanced progressive civilisation for its time. Love and romance and chilled out attitudes were alive and well as was the adoration of cats and other god-like animals. They also look at the life of Cleopatra, her infl...

Gill and Pete Fact it out again and hit on some great facts including ones about moustache related strikes, Picasso's criminal connections, the scourge of the music known as "Sex Rock" and unexploded bombs on the moon. Follow us on Social Media: Threads: @ WhatTheFactualpod Instagram: @ whatthefactualpod Email us..:  whatthefactualpod@gmail.com Youtube...:  www.youtube.com/@whatthefactua...

Once Upon a Time, two cousins set out on a voyage through the history of fairy tales. One was called Gill and she guided her cousin Pete through the perils and pitfalls of folk stories from the traditional tales passed down through generations through to their sanitised Disney counterparts. They find that these stories have their roots in scary nightmarish moral messages but ultimately live happil...

Facts The Way I Like It! Is back with episode 3! Gill and Pete throw facts at each other again. This week they touch on Tutankhamun having a hippo fight, Cave dwellers cracking each other's heads open in the name of mental health and Gill gets all excited about official animals of countries and apparently Scotland's isn't Nessie.  Follow us on Social Media: Threads:   @WhatTheF...

Episode 3 of Series 3 of What The Factual? Hosts, Gill Smith and Pete Moor look through the timeline of the Victorian era and chart the huge changes in science, economics, industry and social reform, with the odd interlude where Gill gets forced into seeing a priceless early stamp and Pete relives a boring night at the theatre. They are also looking to the skies again with the newly named "moons o...

What The Factual? hosts Gill and Pete are back for Episode 2 of "Facts The Way I Like it!" This week there is a slight leaning towards the USA in Pete's facts ranging from what is written above the fireplace of the White House to how to politely break into the offices of the FBI! They also tell a wholesome tail about an auction for an Olympic Silver medal. Gill is star gazing as usual and trying h...

Gill takes Pete through the life and reign of Queen Victoria. They chat through her love and loss and her problematic offspring and they also discover that Gill has never watched Eastenders. They also discover that frogs can be dangerous and Gill and Pete both went to the cinema. Follow us on Social Media: Threads: @ WhatTheFactualpod Instagram: @ whatthefactualpod Email us..:  whatthefactual...

What The Factual? hosts Gill Smith and Pete Moor kick off their "spin off" podcast, "Facts The Way I Like It!" In the first ever episode they discuss, heavy clouds, medieval dog names, why we say "ducks in a row", the Bannister Effect and how we can learn manners under emergency conditions from fish. They also find it very disturbing to talk about the invention of the chainsaw. Follow us on Social...

Gill and Pete are back!!! Series 3 kicks off with a bang. Well, some fire, some welcoming passed souls and general Halloween history starting with Samhain (Pronounced Sow-in). They delve into Stingy Jack's fraternising with the Devil, Día de los Muertos and all it's traditions and how Queen Victoria set a trend that would eventually lead to Halloween being far too sexy for it to make sense anymore...

Gill is very secretive about where she is off to this week but we coax it out of her and it turns out it's Paris! To celebrate, Pete and Gill look into the very long and varied history of the Olympic Games and a few of the forgotten events that once were part of the sporting festival... some of which they want back, but some are probably best consigned to history. Gill also reports from Paris and...

Gill & Pete Blast off into space - figuratively speaking - and look into the Apollo Missions and the Moon Landings. They also find out the huge cultural role The Muppets played in the Space Race. Gill has star-gazing dating tips but then also gets Bruce Willis mixed up with Jim Lovell. Pete attempts impersonations of not one but two US Presidents to varying degrees of success. Also you heard i...

Gill and Pete look into the roaring post-republic years of Charles II's reign. Samuel Pepys starts getting stuck into his diary while Charles just simply gets stuck in. They also find that romance still exists down on the London Underground and they find out what a missed opportunity a Liberty Moo was.. or could have been. It also seems that Donald Duck is suffering from a bit of hey fever. Follow...

Gill & Pete dive into the history and "quirks" of British Politics and without pledging any (obvious) allegiance they delve into how Parliament was born and how it developed all its crazy idiosyncrasies. They discuss, black rod, the division bell, where to hang your sword and then cross the pond for some drunken late-night pizza hunts. Also we learn how not to fake your own death and that its...

Gill and Pete are back for a look at how we got from Henry VIII to The Restoration via Civil War and some fairly dubious execution practices. They navigate the republic years of boredom and anti-fun under Cromwell and they find that the National Anthem was actually a football chant... (Some things haven't changed.) We thoroughly recommend a visit to Moonwalkers at Lightroom, London. https://lightr...

In Episode 5, Gill and Pete look at the life of all-round legend Marie Curie and the incredible work she did in the field of science and medicine. They also touch on Robin Hood, Vincent Van Gogh, Brass Rubbing, new WTF? merchandise and a gameshow where Baseball results take on far more importance than we might like. They also look into whether glow in the dark watches are actually radioactive. Fol...

Gill & Pete are back with episode 4 in which, this time Pete takes the reins and tells Gill the miraculous story of Flight Sergeant Nicholas Alkemade who was left with an unimaginable choice during the Second World War when his Lancaster Bomber was set alight in combat. The regular features of Love Factually and Chew The Fact throw up the usual fascinating facts which bewilder and confuse in e...

In Episode 3 Gill and Pete finally answer the huge hanging question from Series 1, Gill educates Pete on the most complicated route a man can take to being drowned in a barrel of wine. They also address JFK, Dr Henry Heimlich, Coney Island Steeplechase Amusement Park and finally setting up the interview of the century with Lee Harvey Oswald... If he'll agree to come on the pod. References: https:/...

In Episode 2 of this series, Gill waxes lyrical about the romantic poets... Well about all but one of the romantic poets. Pete learns that romantic poetry doesn't just mean writing rhymes for Valentine's Cards. Plus Pete drops a big clanging name to back up the idea behind Love Factually and warns us to be careful when promising to be somewhere in a "jiffy". References: https://poemanalysis.com/fu...

Gill and Pete are back with Series 2 of What The Factual? - The History and Fun Fact podcast. In this episode, Gill delves into the phenomenon that is Highwaymen and women. They also launch their brand new segment "Love Factually" which simply looks at lovely facts! Plus!! The return of Chew The Fact - back by popular demand... Or at least, no one has told them to stop. References: https://www.hac...