I Know Something You Don't: Recent Episodes

14-16 College

A podcast from 14-16 staff where they tell interesting stories from their subject areas.

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This is a one-off Halloween special episode. Ben Lydon and Jonathan Fearnley discuss their favourite scary computer games - DEFCON and A Mind Forever Voyaging.

You can listen to the DEFCON soundtrack, as featured in the show, on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hrqqld2Aew - and the playable demo of the game is available on Steam.

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Jonathan Fearnley and Ben Lydon discuss the sickness that caused everyone to start dancing and the maths problem that we've solved but still remains a mystery.

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Jonathan Fearnley and Ben Lydon are back behind the microphone for the second episode of season 2.

This week Jonathan talks us through the history of the number zero and Ben tells the tale of when pirates ruled the Humber.

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Jonathan Fearnley and Ben Lydon present episode 1 of season 2. This week they look at how split infinitives drove a cultural change and how a student proved his teachers wrong.

To enter the competition email jonathan.fearnley@hull-college.ac.uk before Monday 21st September with the answer to this question: What is the split infinitive at the beginning of Star Trek: The Next Generation?

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Jonathan Fearnley and Ben Lydon host episode 7 of I Know Something You Don't.

This week Tracy Huntley talks about the life and times of Mary Shelley. It covers how she got her idea for Frankenstein and her marriage to Percy Shelley.

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Jonathan Fearnley and Ben Lydon host episode 6 of I Know Something You Don't.

This week Ben talks about the man who went to meet Hitler, what happened, what didn't happen and how it changed the course of Europe forever.

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Jonathan Fearnley and Ben Lydon host episode 5 of I Know Something You Don't.

This week Jonathan talks about Pythagoras and his theorem, explaining why he is one of the most misunderstood mathematicians of all time.

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Jonathan Fearnley and Ben Lydon host episode 4 of I Know Something You Don't.

This week their guest is Wes Smith and he explains the founding of the Red Army Ice Hockey team in the Soviet Union and how they became so successful.

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Jonathan Fearnley and Ben Lydon host episode 3 of I Know Something You Don't.

This week they are joined by Lizzie Tiernan who talks them through Agnolo Bronzino's painting 'An Allegory of Venus and Cupid'.

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Jonathan Fearnley and Ben Lydon host episode 2 of I Know Something You Don't.

This week they discuss how to guarantee winning the jackpot on the lottery and the legal implications of commas.

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Jonathan Fearnley and Ben Lydon host episode 1 of I Know Something You Don't.

This week they discuss the historical impact of Sweating Sickness and the mathematical curiosity of False Negatives.