Yesterday Today - 06/04

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

History

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🗓️ 6 April 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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The return of Yesterday Today! For those that remember, this is a little side episode for a bit of fun, focusing on old news reports through history. In this episode, I thought I'd focus on April Fools Day and see what we had to say about that back in the day. ------- For almost anything, head over to the podcasts hub at darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories The Dark Histories books are available to buy here: http://author.to/darkhistories Dark Histories merch is available here: https://bit.ly/3GChjk9 Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/cmGcBFf The Dark Histories Butterfly was drawn by Courtney, who you can find on Instagram @bewildereye Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.3	Hello and welcome to the return of yesterday today, the first episode of the return of yesterday today.
1:18.7	For anyone that hasn't ever heard yesterday's day before or doesn't know what any of this is, a while back, a few years back now, I think four or five years ago, perhaps more.
1:30.3	I used to do a sort of sister episode of Dark History.
1:34.1	It's called Yesterday's Day.
1:35.9	Basically, looking through the papers on the day of the release and sort of just finding
1:42.3	funny amusing stories or interesting stories or sort of dark histories type stories.
1:49.0	And just reading them out really.
1:52.1	It's a bit of fun.
1:53.9	It's basically a byproduct of the main podcast episodes where I spend a lot of time trawling through, you know, just miles and miles of
2:03.8	old newspapers. And I always find these little stories and, you know, that I find them
2:09.9	interesting personally or, you know, funny or whatever. You know, I always find some sort of interest
2:15.0	or entertainment from them. And I always used to think that, you know, it would be nice to share these.
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