Episode #108 of Talk and Beans is the eighth annual Christmas Special and Part One of our Christmas Spectacular 2023. Scott and Tom talk about viral Grinch videos, experiencing Home Alone with a live orchestra, international traditions, and light displays in London vs Essex. The boys also take part in a quiz where they learn about the origins of eggnog, ...
Episode #106 of the Talk and Beans podcast is the first part of their 2023 Halloween Spectacular and is the eighth annual Halloween Special. Scott and Tom talk about the lure of experiencing Halloween in America, iconic scary movies, the best things to get when Trick of Treating, Scott’s recently discovered family history having close links to Jack the Ripper, ...
Pizza Rebellion have brought the UK it’s first “stand alone” robotic pizza vending machine and we sent Scott to check it out. The machine cooks 11 inch wood-fired base pizzas in under four minutes and there are a variety of options to choose from… but does it deliver? Want to try it yourself? Currently Pizza Rebellion machines can be found ...
The Beano celebrates it’s 75th birthday this year and in the latest episode of “A Conversation With AsYetUntitled” Rob sits down and chat to one of it’s cartoonists, Nigel Parkinson. The artist talks about his early memories of drawing, how he started in the comic industry and people that influenced him to draw comics. Nigel also talks about working with ...
It’s been over 80 years since the Bethnal Green tube disaster and it’s still an incident that invokes a lot of emotion for Londoners. It was the worst case of civilian loss in all of the Second World War when 300 people were crushed (173 of them killed) trying to get into the station for shelter. How it could have ...
Happy 160th birthday to the London Underground! 🎉 The Metropolitan Railway opened between Paddington and Farringdon Street to the public on January 10th 1863, and in the coming years it was carriages like these that were changing the world. The influence of the system in London alone is huge, with all the rival companies that ended up jumping on board, ...
Episode #104 of Talk and Beans is the seventh annual Christmas Special and Part One of our Christmas Spectacular 2022. Scott and Tom are joined this year by Justin to talk about European traditions, celebrating Christmas at the beach, Action Man memories, the trouble with getting a modern games console, experiencing a summer Christmas in Australia and Justin tells us ...
It’s been over 90 years since Arsenal became the only football club in the world to have a station named after them and it’s an incredible bit of branding that hasn’t been matched. Visionary manager Herbert Chapman convinced the Underground Group to rename Gillespie Road station to Arsenal (Highbury Hill) in a stroke of marketing genius. Initially he was met ...
New York is always depicted on TV and Film as if it’s full of alleyways when actually there’s only about a dozen of them. This is because of their famous grid system which completely redesigned the city with it’s newly arranged streets and avenues after The Commissioners’ Plan of 1811. This means that most of the ones that are left ...
Episode #102 is the first part of the Talk and Beans Halloween Spectacular 2022 and is the seventh annual Halloween Special. Scott and Tom are joined by Rob to talk about a scary beauty product, a new way to get costume ideas, if ghostface patrolled Whitechapel, bedtime routines for staying safe, the risk of podcasting about spooky topics and the ...