When One Thing Leads To Another
Bill and Helen Rich
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When One Thing Leads To Another is a weekly podcast that takes you down the great internet rabbit hole of interesting trivia to discover a treasure trove of fascinating facts.
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S2 E9. Cezanne
Bill's recent visit to the Cezanne exhibition at the Tate Modern sends him and Helen down the rabbit hole to discover fascinating facts about apples, Steve Jobs, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Coulrophobia (the fear pf clowns).
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Mar 10, 2023
S2 E8. March
Helen discovers that March was formally the first month of the year and finds out how we arrived with the current calendar while Bill unearths some fact-based gems about the planet Mars.
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Mar 3, 2023
S2 E7. Guinness
Bill is partial to a pint of Ireland's national drink, Guinness, so this week's episode begins with The Black Stuff, and from there we discover a bountiful booty of fascinating facts about A Day in the Life, Desert Island Discs, Edith Piaf, Grace Jones, Blade Runner and Michael Caine.
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Feb 24, 2023
S2 E6. Suspicious Minds
The classic song Suspicious Minds is the starting point for this week's episode, and before long, Helen and Bill are discovering all manner of fascinating facts about Pet Shop Boys, Joss Ackland, Gold Blend Coffee, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Burger King
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Feb 17, 2023
S2 E5. Everything Everywhere All At Once
This week's episode begins with some fascinating facts about Michelle Yeoh, the lead actor in the brilliant film Everything Everywhere All At Once, and from there, Helen and Bill unearth more terrific trivia about Jamie Lee Curtis, the song Mickey, a star-studded nightclub in Mayfair, The Knack and ends with Weird Al Yankovic.
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Feb 10, 2023
S2 E4. Public Enemy
Public Enemy kicks this week's episode of rabbit hole discoveries off, and from there, Helen and Bill unearth a bunch of curious facts about the Dakota Building, Lauren Bacall, Rick Rubin, CBGB's and the dark art that is backmasking.
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Feb 3, 2023
S2 E3. Wall of Death
This week's episode starts with the thrilling and downright dangerous circus sideshow The Wall of Death and from there, Helen and Bill disappear down the rabbit hole to discover fascinating facts about Christopher Lee, Basil Brush, The Winstons and Harry Nilsson.
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Jan 27, 2023
S2 E2. Lobotomies
This week, Trivia Detectives Helen and Bill unearth a treasure trove of fascinating facts that will amaze you (and may prove useful in your next pub quiz). Starting with the alarming practice of lobotomies, they end up with pirate radio station Caroline via George Lazenby, Arnold Schwarzenegger and The Animals.
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Jan 20, 2023
S2 E1. Christmas
Series 2 starts with the greatest Christmas film of all time (according to Rotten Tomatoes), but soon veers off to other fascinating facts about When Harry Met Sally and Billie Holiday before somehow ending up on Oxo cubes via Martin Scorsese.
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Sep 23, 2022
20. Series One Finale
In this series one finale (don't worry – they'll soon be back), Helen and Bill share some the weird, wonderful and downright random facts their listeners have written in to tell them about. They also have some wrongs they put right!
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Sep 16, 2022
19. The Young Ones
The anarchic British sitcom The Young Ones was first broadcast 40 years ago, so Helen and Bill begin their journey down the great internet rabbit hole with the students of Scumbag College. From there, they discover a bunch of fact-based gems about the band Traffic, the musical Evita, Che Guevara and even the Argentinian Church of Diego Maradona.
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Sep 2, 2022
18. Kraftwerk
Helen and Bill went to see Kraftwerk perform their 3D show in London, so this week's episode begins there, but before you know it, our hosts are led down the internet rabbit hole to Gilbert & George, Shakin' Stevens, The Simpsons, Jimmy Finlayson and the Dutch word for "soft dung".
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Aug 26, 2022
17. The Gray Man
Helen and Bill were invited to review the film, The Gray Man on Flixwatcher.tv and so this week's episode of WOTLTA starts there, and ends with The Hee Bee Gee Bees (a Bee Gees parody group), via The Chateau de Chantilly, the wedding of Charles and DI, Private Eye magazine and John Lennon.
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Aug 19, 2022
16. Norfolk Broads
The Norfolk Broads is the starting point to this week's episode and before you know it, Helen and Bill discover a booty of fact-based gems about everything and anything from David Bowie and Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson to Barbarella and Paco Rabanne, via the world's most expensive restaurant and Nostradamus.
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Aug 12, 2022
15. Magnum
Helen's penchant for Magnum ice cream takes her and Bill on a fascinating trip down the internet rabbit hole where they discover a booty of fact-based gems on Shaun of the Dead and Walls' sausages, which then leads them on to Barbra Streisand and Kermit the Frog, via the 80's teen TV show Metal Mickey and Tom Selleck.
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Aug 5, 2022
14. Picasso
This week, Helen and Bill go from high culture with Picasso and Leonardo Da Vinci to less than high culture with The Spice Girls and Walt Disney, as they dig out some fascinating facts and tantalising trivia from the great internet rabbit hole.
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Jul 29, 2022
13. Bungalow Town
Shoreham-by-Sea in West Sussex became Britain's Hollywood for a short time and from that fact, Helen and Bill discover a glut of tantalising trivia on subjects ranging from Nicolas Lyndhurst and The Full Monty to Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and the Compare The Market ads via The Krypton Factor and Mock Turtle Soup.
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Jul 22, 2022
12. Bob
This week, comedy king Bob Mortimer's autobiography starts Trivia Detectives Helen and Bill's adventures down the internet rabbit hole where they stumble across fantastic facts about all sorts of things from The Brit Awards and Michael Jackson to Marks & Spencers and Carry On Cleo via Morse Code and Dick Turpin.
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Jul 15, 2022
11. Ring My Bell
A recent trip to Loughborough inspires Helen and Bill to take a deep dive down the great internet rabbit hole where they find a bunch of fascinating yet frivolous facts about everything and anything, from heavy metal rockers AC/DC and St. Paul's Cathedral to Leonard Cohen and Miami Vice, via General Noriega and The Clash.
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Jul 8, 2022
10. Oven Drama
This week, our intrepid trivia explorers discover a wealth of fascinating facts about food and wine via Gordon Ramsey, the band Squeeze, Paul Young and Hollywood legend, Orson Welles.
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Jul 1, 2022
09. Fifty Years
Fifty years ago, Neil Young's album Harvest was released, and from that we disappear down the rabbit hole to discover a treasure trove of fascinating facts about everything and anything, from Tina Turner and Mad Max to Michael Douglas and Jack Nicholson via cuckoos and ruptured ball bags.
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Jun 24, 2022
08. Shirley
Helen and Bill disappear down the great internet rabbit hole of famous Shirleys to discover a treasure trove of fascinating facts about Shirley MacLaine, Temple, and Bassey, via Big Daddy, George Formby and Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Related Links:
Shirley MacLaine meets Fidel Castro.
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/photos/shirley-maclaine-years-46804747/image-46808414
Shirley Temple’s mother always gave her 56 curls, not 55, not 57.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-xpm-2014-feb-12-la-et-mn-shirley-temple-life-fun-facts-20140211-story.html#:~:text=Temple's%20mother%20styled%20her%20daughter's,kept%20my%20head%20on%20straight.%E2%80%9D
The Partridge Family opening theme, starring Shirley Jones and her real life step son, David Cassidy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOiKa51ll-k
Big Daddy vs Giant Haystacks, Clash of the Titans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sDBd6-SGo4
Shirley Bassey performs Burn My Candle, considered too saucy for the B…
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Jun 17, 2022
07. Oysters
Bill and Helen unearth a treasure trove of fact-based gems from the great internet rabbit hole that takes them from oysters and Casanova to Benny Hill and Elvis via Batman and Kate Bush. They also discover some alarming speculation about Elvi's' famous manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
Related Links:
Casanova trailer. Heath Ledger didn’t much care for his performance in this film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSt1NFGgVUs
An amazing performance from Heath Ledger as The Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, starring Christain Bale.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXeTwQWrcwY
Johnny Rotten pens a song for Kate Bush
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-song-johnny-rotten-wrote-for-kate-bush/
Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush perform Don’t Give Up. Peter had Dolly Parton in mind for the duet when he wrote it, apparently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjEq-r2agqc
Video for Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill featuring the extraordinary dancing of Michael Hervieu who became Misha…
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Jun 10, 2022
06. Penny Come Quick
Join Helen and Bill on another adventure down the never ending internet rabbit hole as they somehow get from places with funny names to Cilla Black, via Levi's jeans and Albert Einstein.
Related Links:
Pennycomequick’s Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennycomequick
Wetwang Village:
https://www.wetwang.org.uk/wetwang-history/
Croatia’s strangely named places:
https://www.croatiaweek.com/the-many-strange-place-names-of-croatia/
Fugging in Austria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging,_Upper_Austria
Shitterton, Dorset in Bournemouth Echo
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/14515534.shitterton-doesnt-make-this-years-rudest-place-names-list-but-somewhere-in-dorset-does/
Albert Einstein’s leather jacket:
https://www.christies.com/features/5-minutes-with-Einsteins-leather-jacket-7510-1.aspx
Levi’s 1985 advert, starring Nick Kamen, featuring Marvin Gaye’s I Heard it Through the Grapevine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwG_wym3p68
Eddie Kidd vs Rob…
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Jun 3, 2022
05. Sheds
Bill has successfully (and surprisingly) built a garden shed and from that, he and Helen unearth a rich treasure trove of fascinating facts about George Bernard Shaw and Julie Andrews, which leads them to the 2003 World Whistling Champion and Henry Fonda’s home made honey.
Related Links:
George Bernard Shaw’s shed:
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/george-bernard-shaws-garden
George Bernard Shaw with Vivien Leigh at Shaw’s Corner:
https://anniebeebuzz.com/2015/08/22/surprising-finds-5-a-revolving-writers-hut/
Gone With The Wind Trailer starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh featuring a halitosis-ridden kiss:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X94oZgJis4
Opening scene to The Sound of Music, starring Julie Andrew featuring the shot from the helicopter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fH2FOn1V5g
A Spoonful of Sugar from Mary Poppins, starring Julie Andrews featuring her whistling robin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L4qauTiCY4
2003 World Whistling Champion Dav…
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May 27, 2022
04. University Challenge
Fun fact finders Helen and Bill discover something curiously interesting about the former University Challenge Question Master Bamber Gascoigne, and before you know it, they are stumbling across Paddington Bear, David Bowie, Diana Dors and the last woman to be hanged in the UK.
Related Links:
A classic incorrect answer on University Challenge answer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47SnI5GGqY8
The house that Bamber Gascoigne inherited:
https://www.westhorsleyplace.org/
Outtakes from BBC’s comedy series Ghosts (shot on location in Bamber Gascoigne’s inherited house):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m6DOPitdVU
Bamber Gascoigne penned Share My Lettuce listing
http://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_s/sharelettuce.htm
Paddington 2 trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52x5HJ9H8DM
Paddington 2 was co-written and directed by Paul King, but not this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlXtrnh-Ejo
Clip from Lady Godiva Rides Again, the 1951 film featuring Diana Dors a…
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May 20, 2022
03. Vincent
This week, Trivia Detectives Helen and Bill begin their journey of discovery with Vincent van Gogh, which leads them to Clive Dunn and a hand grenade down his trousers to Christina Aguilera and Ben Elton, via Eastenders and Abba’s performance at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest.
Related Links:
The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh, MOMA New York City:
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-starry-night/bgEuwDxel93-Pg?hl=en-GB
Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night: Great Art Explained on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk9L1N9bRRE
You can visit the house Vincent lodged at, in Brixton 1873–74
https://vangoghhouse.co.uk/
Don MacLean performs Vincent live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wrNFDxCRzU
Vincent’s The Red Vineyard, the only painting he sold while alive:
https://joyofmuseums.com/museums/russian-federation/moscow-museums/pushkin-museum/the-red-vineyard-by-vincent-van-gogh/
Vincent’s most expensive painting, The Portrait of Dr. Gachet:
https://ww…
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May 13, 2022
02. Die Hard
In this second instalment of When One Thing Leads To Another, the film Die Hard sends Helen and Bill down the garden path to Bruce Willis, Frank Sinatra, and Orson Welles via Taxi Driver, sweary words and Jonah Hill. They also discover what detrimental effect can happen if you take too much Vitamin B.
Related Links:
Die Hard trailer featuring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman in his first feature film appearance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaJuwKCmJbY
The Detective trailer featuring Frank Sinatra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9odRuy4D-VA
Bruce Willis with The Temptations with their version of The Drifter’s Under the Boardwalk. There is a good reason you don’t hear this very often on the radio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2zk56DDjGc
Moonlighting opening and closing titles, featuring the vocals of Al Jarreau
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPZI9aQLhgk
Glenn Gordon, creator of Moonlighting talks about Orson Welles’ appearance on the show:
https://www.youtube.co…
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May 13, 2022
01. You Can't Always Get What You Want
In this first episode of When One Thing Leads To Another, Helen and Bill get lost down an internet rabbit hole which somehow takes them from the Rolling Stones and Delia Smith to The Great Gig in the Sky and Lou Reed via the town of Northampton and Brooke Bond D. They even find out what to do if you accidentally drink washing up liquid, which may or may not come in handy.
Related Links:
The Rolling Stones, Let It Bleed LP on vinyl:
https://therollingstonesshop.co.uk/*/Vinyl/Let-It-Bleed/1J2U12J7000
The Rolling Stones, You Can’t Always Get What You Want, taken from The Rock n Roll Circus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef9QnZVpVd8
Article about Nanette Workman “borrowing” Nanette Newman’s surname:
https://www.pressreader.com/ireland/irish-daily-mail/20200723/282278142649916
Backing singer on You Can’t Always Get What You Want, Nanette Workman with Lady Marmalade, featuring a certain Celine Dion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-3NLfCTLTc
Backing singer on You C…
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May 13, 2022
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