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Fake names and forbidden love at sea
Oct 18, 2026
25m 47s
Jon Ronson, the Manosphere and a Castle
Oct 11, 2026
25m 46s
Australia's secret slave trade
Oct 4, 2026
The Pastry War: Half-baked diplomacy
Sep 27, 2026
25m 42s
The Pig War: Hogging the border
Sep 20, 2026
25m 46s
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- historical events analysis
- unexpected historical figures
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- in-depth history exploration
- untold historical narratives
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- 55 episodes published
- active for 1 year
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- unknown distribution channels
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- 🇦🇺Australia · HistoryHOME#585K to 451K
- 🇮🇩ID · History#252.4K to 13K
- 🇬🇷GR · History#111.5K to 7.9K
- 🇳🇿New Zealand · History#211.2K to 6.4K
- 🇵🇭PH · History#281.0K to 5.4K
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95K to 502K🎙 Weekly cadence·75 episodes·Last published yesterday - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
190K to 1.0M🇦🇺90%🇮🇩3%🇬🇷2%+6 more - Active Followers
Loyal subscribers who consistently listen
104K to 552K
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/18/26 |  Fake names and forbidden love at sea | In 1766, a "man" named Jean boarded a French naval ship as a botanist's valet. But Jean was hiding a secret. For years, that secret sailed around the world with them, until one day it was revealed that Jean was actually a woman and was sailing illegally.Dr Glynis Ridley (English Professor, University of Louisville, and Author, The Discovery of Jeanne Baret) tells Marc Fennell (Stuff The British Stole) the story of Jeanne Baret; the first woman to circumnavigate the globe and her huge botanical legacy that history almost forgot. Binge all the episodes of No One Saw It Coming now on ABC listen (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 [email protected] | 25m 47s | ||||||
| 10/11/26 |  Jon Ronson, the Manosphere and a Castle | A castle sits in the streets of American suburbia and from the outside it looks bizarre. But what’s on the inside is even weirder... A dog named Cerberus, a basement nightclub with poles and cages, and a room full of princess costumes. Jon Ronson (Author, The Castle) speaks to Marc Fennell (Stuff The British Stole) about what he found when he went looking for the man inside the castle, and what unravelled from there: a peep inside the manosphere and the men who are either lashing out, shutting down or building fantasy kingdoms of their own. So how did we get here, and did anyone see it coming? Binge all the episodes of No One Saw It Coming now on ABC listen (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 [email protected] | 25m 46s | ||||||
| 10/4/26 |  Australia's secret slave trade | From the mid-1800s, more than 62,000 Pacific Islanders were kidnapped, tricked or coerced into labour on Queensland's sugar and cotton plantations.Ryan Butta (Author, Blackbirding) and Emelda Davis, whose grandfather was taken from Vanuatu as a boy, tell Marc Fennell (Stuff The British Stole) how Australia avoided the word "slavery" by disguising the trade in euphemism. It was called 'blackbirding' and it came to an end thanks to what is arguably the most racist piece of Australian legislation.Binge all the episodes of No One Saw It Coming now on ABC listen (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 [email protected] | — | ||||||
| 9/27/26 |  The Pastry War: Half-baked diplomacy | A ransacked bakery. A wildly inflated bill. A demand so absurd it should have been laughed out of the room. Instead it triggered warships. In 1838, France used a pastry chef's grievance to justify a blockade, a siege, and an assault on Mexico. But was the baker's claim ever really the reason? Or just the excuse the French government had been waiting for? Food historian and author Seren Charrington-Hollins tells Marc Fennell (Stuff The British Stole) about how a bakery grievance and unpaid debts led to a war that history barely remembers by its real name. This is the fourth and final episode in the special series This Stupid War. Listen to the full series in the No One Saw It Coming podcast feed on ABC listen (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 [email protected] | 25m 42s | ||||||
| 9/20/26 |  The Pig War: Hogging the border | A pig trots over an invisible border, wandering into a potato farmer's garden. It's not the first time it's trespassed but it is the last. The farmer takes his gun off the wall and shoots it dead. But what he doesn't realise was that by pulling that trigger, he set off one of the tensest military stand-offs in history. Mike Vouri (former Historian for San Juan Island National Historic Park) takes Marc Fennell (Stuff The British Stole) to San Juan Island where the US and Great Britain came dangerously close to war... all over a pig.This is the third episode in the special series This Stupid War. Listen to the full series in the No One Saw It Coming podcast feed on ABC listen (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 [email protected] | 25m 46s | ||||||
| 9/13/26 |  The mythical football war | It’s called The Football War and raged for just 100 hours. It’s a catchy name for a conflict supposedly sparked by a World Cup qualifier game. But behind the catchy title, and away from the football pitch lies a deeper, darker history about politics, poverty, power and a war that claimed thousands of lives.Fionntan O’Hara from the London School of Economics tells Marc Fennell (Stuff The British Stole) the story of how the battle on the pitch became a real war between El Salvador and Honduras and what led up to that football game.This is the second episode in the special series This Stupid War. Listen to the full series in the No One Saw It Coming podcast feed on ABC listen (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 [email protected] | 25m 45s | ||||||
| 9/6/26 | Emu WarAustralian history+4 | Dr Ruth Morgan | ABC Australia | Australiawheat fields | Emu WarAustralia+6 | — | 25m 45s | ||
| 8/30/26 | Hindu deitiescultural revolution+4 | Tarun Nagesh | Queensland Art GalleryABC Australia+1 | — | Ravi VarmaHindu gods+6 | — | 25m 44s | ||
| 8/23/26 | Pompeiiancient history+4 | Dr Jess Venner | ABC AustraliaThe Lost Voices of Pompeii+1 | — | Pompeiidisaster+6 | — | 25m 47s | ||
| 8/16/26 | Marcus GarveyPan-Africanism+4 | Darrel Blake | ABC AustraliaStuff The British Stole | — | Marcus GarveyPan-Africanism+6 | — | 25m 46s | ||
| 8/9/26 | automobile historyworld race+3 | Kassia St Clair | ABC AustraliaThe Race To The Future+1 | BeijingGobi Desert+3 | automobilerace+7 | — | 25m 46s | ||
| 8/2/26 | fashionrace+4 | Monica L. Miller | Barnard CollegeColumbia University+1 | Los Angeles | zoot suitfashion+6 | — | 26m 17s | ||
| 7/26/26 | political historyCzechoslovakia+4 | Marc Fennell | ConversationsThe Golden Maze+1 | PragueCzechoslovakia | liegovernment+7 | — | 25m 45s | ||
| 7/19/26 | World War IICultural history+3 | Tim Bonyhady | ABC AustraliaGood Living Street | ViennaAustralia+1 | NazisVienna+7 | — | 25m 45s | ||
| 7/12/26 | witch huntsScottish history+4 | Kate Forsyth | ABC Australia | — | witch trialsScottish witch hunts+5 | — | 25m 47s | ||
| 7/5/26 | nursery rhymesplague+3 | Amelia Huw Morgan | ABC AustraliaRing a Ring o' Roses | — | nursery rhymeplague+3 | — | 25m 37s | ||
| 6/28/26 | D-DayWWII+4 | Dr Chris Kavelin | ABC Australia | Australia | D-DayWWII+5 | — | 25m 47s | ||
| 6/21/26 | human rightsunion strike+4 | Mary Manning | ABC Australia | Dublin | grapefruitsapartheid+6 | — | 25m 45s | ||
| 6/14/26 | history of sex toysfemale pleasure+3 | Dr Kate Lister | ABC AustraliaFlick: The Story of Female Pleasure+1 | — | sex toysfemale pleasure+3 | — | 25m 45s | ||
| 6/7/26 | imperial horticultureBritish Empire+3 | Dr Luke Keogh | ABC AustraliaStuff The British Stole+1 | — | houseplantBritish Empire+5 | — | 25m 44s | ||
| 5/31/26 | plaguehistory+4 | Dr Eleanor Janega | ABC Australia | Europe | plagueblack death+5 | — | 25m 46s | ||
| 5/24/26 | Hip hop historyCultural revolution+4 | Jeff Chang | ABC Australia | Bronx | Hip hopBronx+5 | — | 25m 45s | ||
| 5/17/26 | women's rightspolitical history+4 | Clare Wright OAM | ABC AustraliaDemocracy Trilogy | South Australia | South Australiawomen's suffrage+7 | — | — | ||
| 5/10/26 | Cold WarSoviet espionage+3 | Matt Bevan | ABC AustraliaIf You’re Listening+1 | — | Soviet spiesCold War+3 | — | — | ||
| 5/3/26 | Met Galafashion history+3 | Dr. Elizabeth Lundén | Library of CongressABC Australia+1 | — | Met GalaCostume Art+5 | — | 25m 48s | ||
| 4/26/26 | crimetelegraph+3 | Kassia St Clair | ABC AustraliaStuff The British Stole | — | telegrammurder+5 | — | 25m 46s | ||
| 4/19/26 | space missionshistory+3 | Fiona Pepper | antifreezeblack gunk+4 | — | space missionantifreeze+5 | — | 25m 48s | ||
| 4/12/26 | Ancient technologySteam power+3 | Dr Tatiana Bur | Australian National University | Ancient Alexandria | steam engineAncient Greece+3 | — | 25m 46s | ||
| 4/5/26 | smallpoxinoculation+4 | Jo Willett | ABC AustraliaStuff The British Stole | — | smallpoxinoculation+5 | — | 25m 46s | ||
| 3/29/26 | cocainewine+5 | Dr Tim Madge | Vin MarianiABC Australia | Australia | cocaine wineVin Mariani+5 | — | 25m 46s | ||
| 3/22/26 | cinemahistory+4 | Marta Braun | ABC AustraliaNo One Saw It Coming | — | Eadweard Muybridgecinema+4 | — | 25m 44s | ||
| 3/15/26 | Irish historyprison reform+4 | Dr William Murphy | Dublin City UniversityABC Australia | IrelandBritish Empire | Irish Revolutionprisons+6 | — | — | ||
| 3/8/26 | jazz historyNew Orleans+3 | Dr Matt Sakakeeny | Tulane UniversityABC Australia | New OrleansCongo Square+1 | jazzNew Orleans+5 | — | 25m 46s | ||
| 3/1/26 | insanitycelebrity+4 | Brooke Kroeger | ABC AustraliaNYU | — | Nellie Blyinsane asylum+5 | — | 25m 45s | ||
| 2/22/26 | Stonewall Riotsgay rights movement+4 | Mark Segal | ABC Australia | Stonewall Inn | Stonewall InnMark Segal+6 | — | 25m 47s | ||
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What the show covers
- in-depth history exploration
- untold historical narratives
- impactful historical turning points
- insights from Marc Fennell
Audience interests
- historical events analysis
- unexpected historical figures
- significant historical moments
- twists in history
Platform reach
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Publishing consistency
- 55 episodes published
- active for 1 year
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Chart history for No One Saw It Coming
Peaked at #5 in Australia, top 10 in 1 of 22 tracked markets, currently #5 in Australia.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | — | #5 | #5 | — |
| GR | — | #11 | #11 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #21 | #21 | — |
| ID | — | #25 | #25 | — |
| KE | — | #25 | #25 | — |
| SG | — | #28 | #28 | — |
| PH | — | #28 | #28 | — |
| NG | — | #38 | #38 | — |
| VN | — | #45 | #45 | — |
| TH | — | #61 | #61 | — |
| RO | — | #90 | #90 | — |
| TR | — | #92 | #92 | — |
| Canada | — | #104 | #104 | — |
| PL | — | #118 | #118 | — |
| AE | — | #129 | #129 | — |
| MY | — | #135 | #135 | — |
| SA | — | #140 | #140 | — |
| CH | — | #145 | #145 | — |
| HU | — | #165 | #165 | — |
| IL | — | #176 | #176 | — |
Chart Positions
22 placements across 22 markets.
Chart Positions
22 placements across 22 markets.