Intro Track
At 2:18 Greetings Xenophiles!
It’s National Plum Pudding Day! Somewhere.
On this day in 1879 the first artificial ice rink opened in Madison Square Garden, New York.
In 1924 George Gershwin premiered Rhapsody in Blue. I stil ldon’t know what a Rhapsody actually is.
In 1935 Rober Watson-Watt demonstrated how radar could be used to detect aircraft. They kept it secret, and when the Germans asked how the Brits could see the planes at night, the Brits invented the story about how if you eat lots of carrots you can see better in the dark.
On this day in 2012 Adele won a Grammy (for Rolling in the Deep), and on this day in 2017 she did it again with Hello.
And happy birthday to Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin – born on the same day 217 years ago.
This week, an episode on an occasional series – the Exit Interview, where we bring back an earlier guest to ask them why they are leaving us.
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