Let's get historical
Weekly Digest 03
Words: Ben Smoke
Welcome to this week’s Ralph World digest!
Today you’re getting:
Indian, Irish homosexual (are you keeping up?) comedian Dane Buckley chatting about, well, himself mostly.
Celebrating 100 years of TV with our Head of TV
Pop icon Sophie Ellis Bextor’s guide to Chiswick
Social Media star, The History Gossip’s biggest beefs in history
A chat to a real-life, time travelling reporter
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Dane Buckley on himself
Dane Buckley is a one-of-a-kind comedian and he talks to Ralph’s Ben Smoke about himself (a lot), Madonna tributes, nights out with his aunties, and how he started out in comedy and how it’s going now.
Dane’s making his Edinburgh Fringe Festival debut this summer, so keep an eye out for that – full episode below!
Love Thy Neighbourhood
The podcast that starts on the street and ends in the pub
As we eagerly await series 4 of Love Thy Neighbourhood, the series we make with Time Out London, we’re looking back at some of our favourite trips. This week, Sophie Ellis Bextor’s guide to Chiswick.
100 years of television!
This week marks 100 years since John Logie Baird gathered a group of people in his room in Soho [above what’s now Bar Italia. FACTS - Ed] to watch a demonstration of the first ever television broadcast… and somehow we ended up here! He’d be dead proud 📺
History’s biggest beefs
You won’t believe the beef between Victoria and her eldest son (and no, we’re not talking about the Beckhams…) 👸
Author, historian and social media star Katie Kennedy (aka @thehistorygossip) has set Tiktok and Instagram alight with her no holds barred, frank analysis of historical events. We spoke to her in Ralph 06 about making history funny and her favourite beefs ever. ⚔️
Read the full interview in Ralph issue 06.
The time travelling reporter…
Ever wonder what was happening 25 years ago, 50 years ago and 100 years ago on this EXACT day? 🤔
For almost a decade, Manny Marotta has reported live from the past, walking through the corridors of history, learning, reading and reporting on events as they happened. He is the brains behind Live History (@livehistoryproject), a series of social media accounts that delve into the past through the eyes of an intrepid reporter, bringing the events, moments, and movements that shaped our modern world to life. Read the full interview with Manny here!
