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16:36 Mon 24th May 2010 Q. I heard a comic song at my parents' house, they told me it was George Formby, and he was a massive star. Can you tell me more A. George Formby was born George Hoy Booth in Lancashire in 1904.
01:00 Mon 08th Apr 2002 A. Possibly not. Evidence has just emerged that the history of Offa's Dyke - the largest man-made structure in Britain - is not what we previously thought. Q. Conventional view A. The
01:00 Mon 18th Feb 2002A. Director Ridley Scott became a household name when his company dreamed up the Hovis commercial, where a bike was pushed up a cobbled street, in 1975. The ad - along with Mr Kipling's 'exceedingly
01:00 Mon 14th Jan 2002Q. What is the Dog of Alcibiades A. 'The Dog of Alcibiades' - also known as the 'Jennings Dog' - is a twice-lifesize marble sculpture of a Molossian Hound, the ancestor of modern mastiffs and
01:00 Mon 20th Aug 2001A. An unequivocal yes. It may seem to be the corniest thing imaginable, but just do it! It's a wonderful object and hope you'll enjoy your visit as much as I did. Q. So what's its history A.
01:00 Mon 23rd Jul 2001 Statue of Ramses II at Abu Simbel, EgyptA. You are probably thinking of Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1818 poem Ozymandias, which contains the splendid lines: And on the pedestal these words appear:
01:00 Mon 04th Jun 2001 A. Yes, the 15-year-old space station which has been beset with problems finally ended its life crashing safely into the Pacific Ocean. During its 15 years it travelled over 2.2 billion miles,
01:00 Fri 23rd Mar 2001
