Honourable Mentions
We are two brothers bumbling our way through the amazing life stories of everyday people who deserve their Honourable Mentions in the annals of history.
It's history. It's educational. It's two blokes mucking about.
Podcasting since 2025 • 11 episodes
Honourable Mentions
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The Unwitting Mother of Modern Medicine
Discover the incredible true story of a young mother and poor tobacco farmer whose cells were taken without her knowledge.This episode explores the remarkable medical breakthroughs that saved millions of lives, but also how modern medici...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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37:20
The Bus That Flew: Albert Gunter's London Bus Leap
30th of December 1952, on a cold and dark night in a London still scarred by World War II, Albert Gunter was driving his number 78 bus on the usual route over Tower Bridge when the unthinkable happened. Faced with a split-second dec...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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36:52
The Broken Organ and the Birth of Silent Night: The True Story of Gruber and Mohr
Merry Christmas and welcome to a special episode of Honourable Mentions where, to celebrate the season, we are looking into the lives of Franz Gruber and Joseph Mohr, whose 1818 collaboration in the parish church of Oberndorf, Austria, gave the...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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41:23
Fred Kroll: The Man Who Ate Up The 1970's Toy Market
Fred Kroll was a native New Yorker, the grandson of Belarussian immigrants, a second world war veteran, and a genius in the world of toys and games. In 1978, his latest invention caught the toy business by surprise and more than hel...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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47:50
Duško Popov: D-Day, Pearl Harbor, J. Edgar Hoover and James Bond.
Serbian, Duško Popov was a good looking, exquisitely dressed, multi-lingual international playboy and, as codename Ivan, he was the top spy for the German Military Intelligence (Abwehr) in the Second World War.But, under the codename Tri...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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45:08