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 it here first. The New Game Show: Shooting down Space Junk with Lazers... It's going to happen.

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We, again thoroughly recommend:

The Moonwalkers: A Journey With Tom Hanks

at Lightroom, London.

https://lightroom.uk/whats-on/the-moonwalkers/

References used in this episode:

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/apollo50th/missions.html

https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/historic-speeches/address-to-joint-session-of-congress-may-25-1961

https://airandspace.si.edu/explore/stories/apollo-11-moon-landing

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/interactive-map-shows-all-21-successful-moon-landings-180972687/

https://www.history.com/news/apollo-11-moon-landing-timeline

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/10-amazing-facts-about-the-apollo-11-moon-landing.html

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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.

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Subjects & Research by Gill Smith.

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References in this episode:

https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/blog/mind-gap-story-embankment-stations-announcement

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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 quite a good thing to remember if your country is at war or not.

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What The Factual? is written and presented by Gill Smith & Pete Moor.

Subjects & Research by Gill Smith.

Sound, Editing & Music by Pete Moor.

References used in this episode:

https://www.history.com/news/bill-clinton-boris-yeltsin-drunk-1994-russian-state-visit

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/specialfeatures/politicians-behaving-badly-7-british-government-scandals/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zb736v4

https://louderthanwar.com/20-weird-facts-about-parliament/

(Article by John Robb)

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