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The Met Gala began in a dead woman’s closet
May 3, 2026
25m 48s
The telegram that caught a killer
Apr 26, 2026
25m 46s
Clogged sink doomed a space mission
Apr 19, 2026
25m 48s
Ancient Greek built a steam engine for dinner parties
Apr 12, 2026
25m 46s
She gave her son smallpox. Her bet paid off.
Apr 5, 2026
25m 46s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/3/26 | The Met Gala began in a dead woman’s closet✨ | Met Galafashion history+3 | Dr. Elizabeth Lundén | Library of CongressABC Australia+1 | — | Met GalaCostume Art+5 | — | 25m 48s | |
| 4/26/26 | The telegram that caught a killer✨ | crimetelegraph+3 | Kassia St Clair | ABC AustraliaStuff The British Stole | — | telegrammurder+5 | — | 25m 46s | |
| 4/19/26 | Clogged sink doomed a space mission✨ | space missionshistory+3 | Fiona Pepper | antifreezeblack gunk+4 | — | space missionantifreeze+5 | — | 25m 48s | |
| 4/12/26 | Ancient Greek built a steam engine for dinner parties✨ | Ancient technologySteam power+3 | Dr Tatiana Bur | Australian National University | Ancient Alexandria | steam engineAncient Greece+3 | — | 25m 46s | |
| 4/5/26 | She gave her son smallpox. Her bet paid off.✨ | smallpoxinoculation+4 | Jo Willett | ABC AustraliaStuff The British Stole | — | smallpoxinoculation+5 | — | 25m 46s | |
| 3/29/26 | Cocaine wine: The Pope’s energy drink✨ | cocainewine+5 | Dr Tim Madge | Vin MarianiABC Australia | Australia | cocaine wineVin Mariani+5 | — | 25m 46s | |
| 3/22/26 | A horse race and a murderer invented cinema✨ | cinemahistory+4 | Marta Braun | ABC AustraliaNo One Saw It Coming | — | Eadweard Muybridgecinema+4 | — | 25m 44s | |
| 3/15/26 | Starving for freedom: The prison death that changed Ireland✨ | Irish historyprison reform+4 | Dr William Murphy | Dublin City UniversityABC Australia | IrelandBritish Empire | Irish Revolutionprisons+6 | — | — | |
| 3/8/26 | Let slaves dance: The secret of New Orleans jazz✨ | jazz historyNew Orleans+3 | Dr Matt Sakakeeny | Tulane UniversityABC Australia | New OrleansCongo Square+1 | jazzNew Orleans+5 | — | 25m 46s | |
| 3/1/26 | She faked insanity. Then became a star.✨ | insanitycelebrity+4 | Brooke Kroeger | ABC AustraliaNYU | — | Nellie Blyinsane asylum+5 | — | 25m 45s | |
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| 2/22/26 | The mafia bar riot that sparked gay pride✨ | Stonewall Riotsgay rights movement+4 | Mark Segal | ABC Australia | Stonewall Inn | Stonewall InnMark Segal+6 | — | 25m 47s | |
| 2/15/26 |  The royal roots of French fries | ‘Would you like fries with that?’ It’s a question you’ve likely been asked countless times. But what if the only reason French fries are so popular throughout the West today is because of a Queen who lost her head during the French Revolution? Dr Lauren Samuelsson is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Wollongong where she investigates the history of food, drink, popular culture and gender. She tells Marc Fennell (Stuff the British Stole) how the history of the humble potato is really a history of empire; a story that can be traced through the jungles of the Americas, to a Prussian prison, through the fields of Ireland, and to a fateful dinner party where Queen Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI were guests and turned the potato from a suspicious root vegetable into a fashion icon and culinary hit. Get in touch:Got a story for us? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at noonesawitcoming@abc.net.auThis episode was first published in April 2025. | — | ||||||
| 2/8/26 | Three words brought down the Berlin Wall | The fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 is one of the most famous events of modern history. And with it came a wave of momentous events - the reunification of East and West Germany, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the end of the Cold War. But the way it came about is stranger than fiction. The images of people swarming the wall and chipping away at it all came down to a small slip at a routine press conference.Dr Katrin Schreiter is a Senior Lecturer in German and History at Kings College London and she has a deeply personal connection to this story. She tells Marc Fennell (Stuff the British Stole) that while powerful men have been credited with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the true heroes were everyday men and women. Get in touch:Got a story for us? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at noonesawitcoming@abc.net.auThis episode was first published in May 2025. | — | ||||||
| 2/1/26 | The art heist that made the Mona Lisa famous | It’s arguably the most famous painting in the world. But back in 1911, the Mona Lisa wasn’t an international icon. So what made the painting so famous it would attract millions of visitors to The Louvre every year? This is the unbelievable true story of an art heist - one of the 20th century's most audacious art thefts that would turn a masterpiece into a legend.Art historian Mary McGillivray tells Marc Fennell (Stuff The British Stole) about one of art history’s most sensational crimes and its patriotic perpetrator.Get in touch:Got a story for us? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at noonesawitcoming@abc.net.au This episode was first published in April 2025. | — | ||||||
| 1/25/26 | The colony that broke Scotland (and made Great Britain) | It was meant to be Scotland’s saving grace - a bold plan to build a colony and dominate global trade. But disease, starvation, and frankly just bad planning was their undoing... and the failed outpost paved the way for a union with their biggest rival.Archaeologist Mark Horton tells Marc Fennell (Stuff The British Stole) about the story of the Darien Scheme and how the failed venture bankrupted Scotland, deepened economic despair, and indirectly paved the way for the 1707 Act of Union with England, arguably changing the course of British history.Binge all the episodes of No One Saw It Coming now on the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts.Get in touch:Got a story for us? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at noonesawitcoming@abc.net.au | — | ||||||
| 1/18/26 | The Hollywood femme fatale who invented wi-fi | She was called the most beautiful woman in the world and was seen as an exotic Hollywood star in the 1930s. But Hedy Lamarr was more than that. She was also an inventor. During WWII she patented a technology to sink German U-boats. It was ignored and shelved, only to be picked up decades later to and be used every day on our phones and computers.Ruth Barton, Emeritus Professor of Film from Trinity College Dublin, tells Marc Fennell (Stuff the British Stole) about how Hedy Lamarr invented the foundations of wi-fi and why it took decades for it to be a part of her legacy.Binge all the episodes of No One Saw It Coming now on the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts.Get in touch:Got a story for us? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at noonesawitcoming@abc.net.au | — | ||||||
| 1/12/26 | The ballet that caused a riot and changed music | When you combine Russian ballet, French aristocracy, and a little bit of Walt Disney you get a recipe for a riot and one of the most important musical moments in history.Host of Radio National’s The Music Show, Andrew Ford, sits down at the piano and tells Marc Fennell (Stuff the British Stole) about why Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring was so confronting that it caused a riot in 1913 and how it went on to change music forever.Binge all the episodes of No One Saw It Coming now on the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts.Get in touch:Got a story for us? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at noonesawitcoming@abc.net.au | — | ||||||
| 1/5/26 | The Forgotten Female Codebreakers of WWII | As the Second World War raged in the Pacific, there was a team of codebreakers in Australia working around the clock intercepting and deciphering Japanese messages. It was Australia’s own Bletchley Park, but the team were young, female and worked in a shed. And they called themselves The Garage Girls.Author Alli Sinclair tells Marc Fennell (Stuff the British Stole) the story of these codebreakers and how they secured the Allies’ victory in the Pacific, only to be lost in history... until now. Binge all the episodes of No One Saw It Coming now on the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts.Get in touch:Got a story for us? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at noonesawitcoming@abc.net.au | — | ||||||
| 12/29/25 | Time is Chaos. The Calendar Tries (And Fails) to Fix That. | From moons to mind bending maths and revolutions, the story of how we got the modern calendar is messy. Matthew Champion, Associate Professor in History at the University of Melbourne, takes Marc Fennell (Stuff the British Stole) through time to understand the many iterations of calendars and why the one we use today can still be improved.Binge all the episodes of No One Saw It Coming now on the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts.Get in touch:Got a story for us? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at noonesawitcoming@abc.net.au | — | ||||||
| 12/22/25 | The Nativity Scene You Know—And The One You Don’t | You see it on Christmas cards, in shop windows and at your local church. The nativity scene is everywhere at this time of year. But the scene you know of Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus in the manger, with some animals around is actually thanks to some mistranslations and a popular saint in the Middle Ages who wanted to imprint the story of the birth of Christ into people’s memory. Art historian Mary McGillivray tells Marc Fennell (Stuff the British Stole) about the first nativity play and why its tableau has lasted over 800 years.Binge all the episodes of No One Saw It Coming now on the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts.Get in touch:Got a story for us? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at noonesawitcoming@abc.net.au | — | ||||||
| 12/15/25 | An 1843 Lifehack Became a Christmas Tradition | There’s one man you can thank - or curse - for your hand cramp after writing all your Christmas cards. Sir Henry Cole was a ‘dumpy’ Englishman who had too many jobs and not enough time to write back to his friends and family so he created the first Christmas card in 1843. It caused quite the stir, and not exactly in the way he expected. Author and all-things-Christmas expert Ace Collins tells Marc Fennell (Stuff the British Stole) how the Christmas holiday evolved in Victorian England and why the first Christmas card took the country - and the world - by storm.Binge all the episodes of No One Saw It Coming now on the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts.Get in touch:Got a story for us? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at noonesawitcoming@abc.net.au | — | ||||||
| 12/8/25 | Poison to Beauty: The Story of Botox | It started as a deadly toxin and became a billion-dollar beauty secret. So how exactly did a poison become the world’s most popular cosmetic fix? It’s all to do with one man who took a plunge and used it to treat eye spasms, and another who saw its potential in the pursuit of perfection. Author and former ophthalmologist Dr Eugene Helveston tells Marc Fennell (Stuff the British Stole) the story of Botox, tracing it back to deadly sausages in the 18th century to being injected into faces 300 years later. Binge all the episodes of No One Saw It Coming now on the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts.Get in touch:Got a story for us? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at noonesawitcoming@abc.net.au | — | ||||||
| 12/1/25 | The First Computer Was Greek (And Shipwrecked) | Over a hundred years ago, some divers jumped into the Mediterranean to look for sponges. Instead, they found ancient treasures. Artefacts, statues, jewellery. And a corroded piece of bronze. Little did they know that lump of metal would be the most valuable of the lot. Ancient Greek cultural historian Dr Tatiana Bur from the Australian National University tells Marc Fennell (Stuff The British Stole) the story of the Antikythera mechanism. From how it was salvaged from the ocean floor, to being called the world’s first computer and how it’s transformed our understanding of ancient civilisations and technology. Binge all the episodes of No One Saw It Coming now on the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts.Get in touch:Got a story for us? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at noonesawitcoming@abc.net.au | — | ||||||
| 11/24/25 | William Dalrymple: China’s Game of Thrones | She entered the royal palace as a concubine and became the first and only female emperor of China. She was power hungry, a total operator and if you asked her enemies, a blood thirsty murderer. And her secret weapon to legitimise her rule wasn't just an unwavering belief in herself, but in Buddha. Historian and author William Dalrymple (Empire, The Golden Road) tells Marc Fennell (Stuff the British Stole) the extraordinary story of Wu Zetian, how she rose to power and paved the way for China having the world's largest Buddhist population. Binge all the episodes of No One Saw It Coming now on the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts.Get in touch:Got a story for us? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at noonesawitcoming@abc.net.au | — | ||||||
| 11/17/25 | Purple Reign: The Teen Who Bottled Royalty | It was a colour once reserved for emperors and the elite. But a lab mishap soon changed purple forever. Cultural historian and author of the book The Secret Lives of Colour, Kassia St Clair tells Marc Fennell (Stuff The British Stole) the story of how a London teenager’s failed experiment transformed how fabric dyes were made, how we dressed and how power was perceived.Binge all the episodes of No One Saw It Coming now on the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts.Get in touch:Got a story for us? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at noonesawitcoming@abc.net.au If you'd like to hear more from Kassia St Clair, listen to her tell the story of The Lingerie Makers who put Neil Armstrong on the Moon. | — | ||||||
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