Rebecca Messina
@rebeccamessina.bsky.social
💻 Deputy digital editor @theweek.com
🎙️1/3 of @theretrospectors.bsky.social - a quirky episode from history: ten minutes, every day, wherever you get podcasts.
"You're in one of your unbearable 'life is a cabaret' moods."
🎙️1/3 of @theretrospectors.bsky.social - a quirky episode from history: ten minutes, every day, wherever you get podcasts.
"You're in one of your unbearable 'life is a cabaret' moods."
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#OnThisDay in 1811, the Regency Act transferred power from the alarmingly unstable George III to the Prince Regent.
Spoiler alert: people still preferred the mentally incapacitated king to his loathed son.
We tell the story, in 10 minutes:
Spoiler alert: people still preferred the mentally incapacitated king to his loathed son.
We tell the story, in 10 minutes:
Today In History... with The Retrospectors: Too Mad To Rule: King George III
George III’s mental incapacitation was formally recognised by Parliament on February 5th, 1811, when The Regency Act handed power to his son, the future George IV. Though George III had struggle...
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February 5, 2025 at 8:14 AM
#OnThisDay in 1811, the Regency Act transferred power from the alarmingly unstable George III to the Prince Regent.
Spoiler alert: people still preferred the mentally incapacitated king to his loathed son.
We tell the story, in 10 minutes:
Spoiler alert: people still preferred the mentally incapacitated king to his loathed son.
We tell the story, in 10 minutes:
One of my favourite episodes we've ever done - I had no idea about ANY of this before we started researching. Hannah Hauxwell a remarkable, totally unique person.
#OnThisDay in 1973, Britain got its first reality TV star - a 46-year-old spinster who had lived her whole life on a remote Yorkshire farm.
Hear the remarkable story of Hannah Hauxwell, in 10 minutes:
Hear the remarkable story of Hannah Hauxwell, in 10 minutes:
Today In History... with The Retrospectors: Hannah Hauxwell: Britain's First Reality Star
Running a remote Yorkshire farm, with no flushing toilet and no electricity is an unlikely route to TV stardom, but 46 year-old spinster Hannah Hauxwell managed it on 30th January, 1973, when ITV a...
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January 30, 2025 at 9:49 AM
One of my favourite episodes we've ever done - I had no idea about ANY of this before we started researching. Hannah Hauxwell a remarkable, totally unique person.
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We are BACK, baby! And our first fresh episode of 2025 is a belter, if we say so ourselves - we're going back to 6 January 1994, when an ice skating rivalry boiled over into a shocking act of violence.
Listen below or on your podcast app of choice - just search 'retrospectors' 👇
Listen below or on your podcast app of choice - just search 'retrospectors' 👇
Today In History... with The Retrospectors: Tonya and Nancy: Fire and Ice
In our first new episode of 2025, The Retrospectors dive into the scandal that shocked the world of figure skating, when, on 6th January, 1994, Olympic hopeful Nancy Kerrigan was attacked in the le...
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January 6, 2025 at 8:43 AM
We are BACK, baby! And our first fresh episode of 2025 is a belter, if we say so ourselves - we're going back to 6 January 1994, when an ice skating rivalry boiled over into a shocking act of violence.
Listen below or on your podcast app of choice - just search 'retrospectors' 👇
Listen below or on your podcast app of choice - just search 'retrospectors' 👇
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#OnThisDay in 1984, the "When Harry Met Sally" of the Cold War - when Margaret Thatcher met Mikhail Gorbachev, proving men and women really *could* just be friends.
We cover their historic Chequers lunch in 10 minutes 👇
We cover their historic Chequers lunch in 10 minutes 👇
Today In History... with The Retrospectors: When Thatcher Met Gorbachev
Over a Chequers banquet of sole in shrimp sauce, fillet of beef, and caramelized oranges, Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev met for the first time on 16th December, 1984. While their ideolog...
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December 16, 2024 at 11:34 AM
#OnThisDay in 1984, the "When Harry Met Sally" of the Cold War - when Margaret Thatcher met Mikhail Gorbachev, proving men and women really *could* just be friends.
We cover their historic Chequers lunch in 10 minutes 👇
We cover their historic Chequers lunch in 10 minutes 👇
Me, for @theweek.com. Hat-tip to @ilpost.it and its Morning podcast, where I first heard some of the most salient statistics.
85 inmates have taken their own lives in Italian prisons in 2024, making it the deadliest year on record.
Illustration by Julia Wytrazek
Illustration by Julia Wytrazek
Italy's prisons crisis
Severe overcrowding, dire conditions and appalling violence have brought the Italian carceral system to boiling point
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December 9, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Me, for @theweek.com. Hat-tip to @ilpost.it and its Morning podcast, where I first heard some of the most salient statistics.
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"Into the valley of Death rode the 600..." Find out who, where and why as we dive into Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade", published #onthisday in 1854.
Find us wherever you get #podcasts!
Find us wherever you get #podcasts!
Today In History... with The Retrospectors: Theirs Not To Reason Why
Alfred Tennyson’s ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ was first published on 9th December, 1854, in The Examiner. Tennyson had penned the poem shortly after reading a dramatic account in The Ti...
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December 9, 2024 at 9:50 AM
"Into the valley of Death rode the 600..." Find out who, where and why as we dive into Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade", published #onthisday in 1854.
Find us wherever you get #podcasts!
Find us wherever you get #podcasts!
Spotify using Google to generate an AI podcast about your #SpotifyWrapped is a DIABOLICALLY brilliant solution to the perennial problem that no-one real cares about your Wrapped.
December 5, 2024 at 8:07 AM
Spotify using Google to generate an AI podcast about your #SpotifyWrapped is a DIABOLICALLY brilliant solution to the perennial problem that no-one real cares about your Wrapped.
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⏰ Can @ArionMcNicoll.bsky.social summarise the early history of LIFE ON EARTH ... in just one minute?! 🦕
@OllyMann.bsky.social | @RebeccaMessina.bsky.social
@OllyMann.bsky.social | @RebeccaMessina.bsky.social
December 4, 2024 at 10:28 AM
⏰ Can @ArionMcNicoll.bsky.social summarise the early history of LIFE ON EARTH ... in just one minute?! 🦕
@OllyMann.bsky.social | @RebeccaMessina.bsky.social
@OllyMann.bsky.social | @RebeccaMessina.bsky.social
still the all-time great correction
December 4, 2024 at 9:14 AM
still the all-time great correction
Me for @theweek.com Evening Review this week. Sign up to our free newsletters or subscribe for our paid newsletters theweek.com/uk-newsletters
November 30, 2024 at 2:13 PM
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Bhutan, the "kingdom of happiness", faces unprecedented emigration, dwindling currency reserves and rocketing youth unemployment. But perhaps tourism can put a smile back on its face?
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November 22, 2024 at 9:58 AM
Bhutan, the "kingdom of happiness", faces unprecedented emigration, dwindling currency reserves and rocketing youth unemployment. But perhaps tourism can put a smile back on its face?
theweek.com/culture-life...
theweek.com/culture-life...
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Manifest: our word of the day, from today's Evening Review theweek.com/uk/edition/t...
November 20, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Manifest: our word of the day, from today's Evening Review theweek.com/uk/edition/t...