No One Saw It Coming

In 1889, millions of people visited Paris for the Exposition Universelle (World's Fair) and walked through an impressive 300-metre-tall gate. That gate was the Eiffel Tower and it was destined for demolition years later. It was never meant to be an icon, and it definitely wasn't built to help save the city from invasion. 
So what happened?
Art historian and tour guide Sandrine Voillet tells Marc Fennell (Stuff The British Stole) how the tower’s surprise use helped save itself, and the city as a whole.
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In November 1939, a bomb ripped through a crowded Munich beer hall moments after its target walked out the door. The target was Adolf Hitler and he missed death by mere minutes.
The man behind the attack was not a soldier, a politician, or member of a resistance network. He was just a carpenter and he did it all by himself.
Riley Knight (Podcaster and Author, The Most Interesting People You've Never Heard Of) tells Marc Fennell the incredible story of Georg Elser and how he came so close to changing the course of history, and why do so few people know his story.
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A warship born from panic. A cannon that was never fired. A shipwreck that's been lost for over a century. And one man determined to find it. 
Dr James Hunter (Manager of Maritime Archaeology at the Australian National Maritime Museum) tells Marc Fennell (Stuff The British Stole) the strange, true story of Spitfire. It was Australia's first defence vessel, built for a war that never came, and lost in a wreck that no one has found. 
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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. 
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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? 
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