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I Know Something You Don't

  • Halloween Special - A Mind Forever Voyaging Towards Nuclear War

    31 OCT 2020 · This is a one-off Halloween special episode. Ben Lydon and Jonathan Fearnley discuss their favourite scary computer games - DEFCON and A Mind Forever Voyaging. You can listen to the DEFCON soundtrack, as featured in the show, on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hrqqld2Aew - and the playable demo of the game is available on Steam.
    32m 37s
  • 2.4 Dancing With Fermat

    18 OCT 2020 · Jonathan Fearnley and Ben Lydon discuss the sickness that caused everyone to start dancing and the maths problem that we've solved but still remains a mystery.
    16m 58s
  • 16m 17s
  • 2.2 Zero Pirates of the Humber

    18 SEP 2020 · Jonathan Fearnley and Ben Lydon are back behind the microphone for the second episode of season 2. This week Jonathan talks us through the history of the number zero and Ben tells the tale of when pirates ruled the Humber.
    15m 35s
  • 2.1 Split infinitives divided by seven

    13 SEP 2020 · Jonathan Fearnley and Ben Lydon present episode 1 of season 2. This week they look at how split infinitives drove a cultural change and how a student proved his teachers wrong. To enter the competition email jonathan.fearnley@hull-college.ac.uk before Monday 21st September with the answer to this question: What is the split infinitive at the beginning of Star Trek: The Next Generation?
    12m 52s
  • 7. Percy Shelley's Calcified Heart

    23 JUN 2020 · Jonathan Fearnley and Ben Lydon host episode 7 of I Know Something You Don't. This week Tracy Huntley talks about the life and times of Mary Shelley. It covers how she got her idea for Frankenstein and her marriage to Percy Shelley.
    12m 41s
  • 6. Meeting Hitler

    17 JUN 2020 · Jonathan Fearnley and Ben Lydon host episode 6 of I Know Something You Don't. This week Ben talks about the man who went to meet Hitler, what happened, what didn't happen and how it changed the course of Europe forever.
    13m 13s
  • 5. Pythagoras

    9 JUN 2020 · Jonathan Fearnley and Ben Lydon host episode 5 of I Know Something You Don't. This week Jonathan talks about Pythagoras and his theorem, explaining why he is one of the most misunderstood mathematicians of all time.
    16m 5s
  • 4. Red Army Ice Hockey

    3 JUN 2020 · Jonathan Fearnley and Ben Lydon host episode 4 of I Know Something You Don't. This week their guest is Wes Smith and he explains the founding of the Red Army Ice Hockey team in the Soviet Union and how they became so successful.
    14m 48s
  • 3. Allegory of Venus

    19 MAY 2020 · Jonathan Fearnley and Ben Lydon host episode 3 of I Know Something You Don't. This week they are joined by Lizzie Tiernan who talks them through Agnolo Bronzino's painting 'An Allegory of Venus and Cupid'.
    18m 16s
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