At the pub yesterday my daughter asked me “daddy, why do they have a picture of the King?” I explained to her, “actually, darling, that’s the Queen.”

WHO ARE WE? We are Arion, Rebecca, and Olly - aka The Retrospectors. In every episode of our Today in History podcast, we cover something fascinating that happened on this day in history - whether that's the collapse of Enron or the invention of Hawaiian pizza. And we do it in just 10 minutes!

The impassioned defence of Mr Blobby by @ollymann.bsky.social at the end of this had me laughing my head off in the street. If you’re not listening to Today in History with The Retrospectors you jolly well should be, ten minutes a day well spent. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

For our 1,001st episode of Today in History with The Retrospectors, we celebrated Pele’s 1,000th goal, which was scored back in 1969. We were SO close to making two equally momentous milestones line up. Listen to the show here! pod.fo/e/283fa9