Retrospecticus

Retrospecticus

61 episodes

Join your hosts Garreth Hirons and Tom Williamson as they reminisce over an episode of The Simpsons, before telling the story of an historical event that occurred around the time of its first broadcast.

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Episode 71 IBM versus the Monorail

Published: March 19, 2023, 9:44 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 15 seconds

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Episode 70 The Czech Republics Triple Bypass

Published: Dec. 19, 2022, 6:15 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 46 seconds

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Episode 69 Charles and Dianas First Word

Published: Sept. 13, 2022, 5:45 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 55 seconds

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Episode 68 Mr Windsor Castle Fire

Published: March 31, 2022, 3 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 9 seconds

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Episode 67 Women Priests on the Block

Published: July 31, 2021, 11:38 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 25 seconds

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Episode 66 Marge Gets Mortal Kombat

Published: July 17, 2021, 8:21 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 22 seconds

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Episode 65 US Election 1992 The Movie

Published: June 26, 2021, 7:20 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 34 seconds

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Episode 64 Galileo of Horror

Published: June 12, 2021, 8:04 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 59 seconds

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Episode 63 Charles Taylor the Beauty Queen

Published: May 8, 2021, 8:28 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 44 seconds

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Episode 62 Mozambique the Heretic

Published: April 24, 2021, 7:28 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 23 seconds

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Episode 61 A Streetcar Named Sinead OConnor

Published: April 10, 2021, 8:54 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 8 seconds

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Episode 60 Kamp Fernando Collor de Mello

Published: March 20, 2021, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 13 seconds

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Episode 59 Black Wednesday Can You Spare Two Dimes?

Published: Feb. 6, 2021, 10:01 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 32 seconds

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Episode 58 The Space Shuttle Endeavour Falls in Love

Published: Jan. 16, 2021, 11:13 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 47 seconds

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Episode 57 The Betty Boothroyd Show

Published: Dec. 24, 2020, 11:09 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 6 seconds

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Episode 56 Fujimori Widower

Published: Dec. 12, 2020, 8:59 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes

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Episode 55 Colonel Al Atheer

Published: Nov. 28, 2020, 9:33 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 8 seconds

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Episode 54 Apartheid of Death

Published: Nov. 14, 2020, 9:13 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 3 seconds

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Episode 53 – Contra 3 Vocations

Published: Oct. 31, 2020, 8:48 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 25 seconds

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Episode 52 Ross Perot at the Bat

Published: Oct. 17, 2020, 7:42 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 26 seconds

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Episode 51 Hugo Chavez the Lover

Published: Oct. 3, 2020, 7:58 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 27 seconds

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Episode 50 The Maastricht Treaty Alone

Published: Sept. 19, 2020, 7:39 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 51 seconds

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Episode 49 Zaire the Greek

Published: Sept. 5, 2020, 7:33 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 48 seconds

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Episode 48 Radio Salvadoran Civil War

Published: Aug. 15, 2020, 7:48 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 41 seconds

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Episode 47 I Married the Dissolution of the Soviet Union

Published: Aug. 1, 2020, 7:28 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 6 seconds

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Episode 46 Belavezha Accords Verkaufen der Kraftwek

Published: July 11, 2020, 7:29 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 47 seconds

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Episode 45 Flaming Moehemian Rhapsody

Published: June 27, 2020, 7:30 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 3 seconds

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Episode 44 Terry Waite of Thunder

Published: June 13, 2020, 7:53 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 46 seconds

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Episode 43 Robert Maxwells Pony

Published: May 30, 2020, 7:48 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 18 seconds

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Episode 42 Treehouse of Turkmenistan

Published: May 16, 2020, 8:35 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes

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Episode 41 Like Cambodia Like Clown

Published: May 2, 2020, 8:52 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 26 seconds

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Episode 40 Azerbaijan Defined

Published: April 18, 2020, 8:13 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 14 seconds

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Episode 39 Clarence Thomas the Murderer

Published: April 4, 2020, 8:16 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 28 seconds

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Episode 38 When Bill Clinton Failed

Published: March 21, 2020, 9:22 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 50 seconds

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Episode 37 Mr Lisa Goes to Dubrovnik

Published: Feb. 29, 2020, 8:43 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 9 seconds

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Episode 36 Stark Raving Ice Man

Published: Feb. 15, 2020, 11:47 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 58 seconds

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Episode 35 Soviet Feud

Published: Jan. 18, 2020, 9:07 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 16 seconds

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Episode 34 Three Men and The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power

Published: Dec. 21, 2019, 9:55 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 48 seconds

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Episode 33 Angolan Civil War of the Simpsons

Published: Nov. 30, 2019, 12:59 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 41 seconds

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Episode 32 Lisas Temporary Provisions Against the Communist Rebellion

Published: Nov. 16, 2019, 8:56 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 49 seconds

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Episode 31 Brush with Georgia

Published: Oct. 26, 2019, 8:15 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 52 seconds

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Episode 30 Old Birmingham Six

Published: Oct. 12, 2019, 8:50 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 21 seconds

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Episode 29 The LAPD Gets An F

Published: Sept. 28, 2019, 7:54 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 4 seconds

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Episode 28 Oh Brother Where Art the Provisional IRA

Published: Sept. 14, 2019, 8:08 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 10 seconds

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Episode 27 Principal Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization

Published: Aug. 31, 2019, 7:30 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 7 seconds

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Episode 26 Homer versus Lisa and Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Published: Aug. 17, 2019, 7:32 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 10 seconds

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Episode 25 Said Barre We Was

Published: July 27, 2019, 7:43 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 1 second

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Episode 24 One Fish, Street Fighter 2 Fish, Blowfish, Bluefish

Published: June 29, 2019, 7:08 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 44 seconds

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Episode 23 Bart gets hit by the Gulf War

Published: June 15, 2019, 9:01 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 9 seconds

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Episode 22 Itchy and Scratchy and the Polish Government in Exile

Published: May 25, 2019, 7:50 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 1 second

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Episode 21 Saddam Hussein the Daredevil

Published: May 11, 2019, 7:29 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 56 seconds

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Episode 20 Thatcher vs. Thanksgiving

Published: April 27, 2019, 7:33 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 20 seconds

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Episode 19 Dead Web Page Society

Published: April 6, 2019, 7:21 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 47 seconds

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Episode 18 Dancin Akihito

Published: March 9, 2019, 9:55 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 10 seconds

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Episode 17 Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on President Mary Robinson

Published: Feb. 23, 2019, 9:34 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 41 seconds

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Episode 16 Norwegian Government Collapse of Horror

Published: Feb. 9, 2019, 10:27 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 23 seconds

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Episode 15 Mikhail Gorbachev and Delilah

Published: Jan. 26, 2019, 11:44 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 5 seconds

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Episode 14 Transnistria Gets An F

Published: Jan. 12, 2019, 9:48 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 2 seconds

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The Flag Special

Published: Dec. 12, 2018, 9:36 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 50 seconds

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Episode 13 Some Enchanted Burmese Election

Published: Oct. 20, 2018, 8:23 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 37 seconds

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Episode 12 Krusty Gets the Singing Revolution

Published: Sept. 29, 2018, 7:42 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 2 seconds

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Episode 11 The Crepes of Lothar de Maiziere

Published: Sept. 15, 2018, 8:34 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 12 seconds

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Episode 10 The Poll Tax Riots Night Out

Published: Sept. 1, 2018, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 48 seconds

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Episode 9 Imelda Marcos on the Fast Lane

Published: Aug. 18, 2018, 6:11 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 51 seconds

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Episode 8 The Telltale Nicaraguan Election

Published: Aug. 4, 2018, 7:35 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 57 seconds

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Episode 7 Call of the Restoration of Diplomatic Relations Between the UK and Argentina

Published: July 21, 2018, 9:03 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 13 seconds

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Episode 6 Moaning Mandela

Published: July 7, 2018, 8:19 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 39 seconds

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Episode 5 Bart the First McDonalds in Moscow

Published: June 23, 2018, 6:42 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 46 seconds

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Episode 4 Theres No Disgrace Like Manuel Noriega

Published: June 9, 2018, 6:41 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 56 seconds

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Episode 3 The Morris Worms Odyssey

Published: May 26, 2018, 7:41 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 51 seconds

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Episode 2 Bart the Storming of the Stasi HQ

Published: May 12, 2018, 8:08 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 13 seconds

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Episode 1 Simpsons Roasting on a Romanian Revolution

Published: April 28, 2018, 3:03 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 39 seconds

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