Gill and Pete return for with some great unknown (or lesser told) stories from World War 2 including the miraculous story of the ship the San Demetrio which defied the odds by surviving an attack in the North Atlantic. They also look at the brave contributions of animals as well as how the props and set building department of the film industry played its part in deceiving the German bombing campaigns.

They also touch on the more personal stories involving their own grandfather and also listener, Dave's family history and survival stories.

In the lighter side of the episode, Pete manages to shoehorn in another Roger Moore impersonation and Gill suggests the best pet to get if you want to follow in Lord Byron's footsteps.

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Facts The Way I Like It! is back with another quickfire exchange of facts between Gill and Pete and this week they get into the truth behind the myth of night-vision enhancing carrots, why Astronauts have their name, how to buy a dinosaur skeleton and Pete finds another excuse to talk about Italy in the form of where the term "paparazzi" comes from.

Finally, Gill just laughs at how Pete mis-pronounces difficult words.

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Gill and Pete take a good long look at Ancient Egypt with a keen hieroglyphic eye focused on the pharaohs and their legacies but they also look at the every day life in an incredibly advanced progressive civilisation for its time. Love and romance and chilled out attitudes were alive and well as was the adoration of cats and other god-like animals.

They also look at the life of Cleopatra, her influence and powerful leadership.

In Love Factually, they look at how the Comedy and Tragedy masks came to be, as well as how the word nice isn't as nice as it seems.

Finally, Pete has a fact about how even though Space moves pretty fast, it still takes a long time to get anywhere in the huge expansive void!

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References used in this episode:

https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/how-long-does-it-take-the-sun-to-orbit-the-galaxy

https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/comedy-drama-theater-masks-77499/

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