Olly Mann

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So retrospectives, what historical events are we ticking off on this week's run of Today in History?

On Monday, how Brits abroad brought the Barbie girl virus back with them to the UK charts.

Yeah, I agree.

Olly, you keep poultry.

Have you ever considered this? I've never put any

down there, no.

And I don't know if it's because I said I'd be there all the time or whether he genuinely thinks this, but he was like, yeah, I just don't like swimming.

Okay.

He's like, I don't want a wet Olly man on my property.

I think that's it, yeah.

The UN conference nobody is talking about, just how easy is it to buy human remains on Instagram, and the 100-year-old bear who's still a household name.

I'm Olly Mann, and this is The Week Unwrapped.

And remember, you can read all you need to know about everything that matters in the week magazine.

But joining me to unwrap the week from the week's digital team today is Felicity Capon, Harriet Marsden and Jamie Timpson.

He dedicated himself full time to art collecting.

But it wasn't until 1926, when he was 66 years old, that Hilla von Riebe, who you mentioned, Olly, She had been commissioned to paint his portrait, and she introduced him to abstract art, which was something that, you know, before then his collection was all old masters, because that was seen as something that a wealthy, retired man might reasonably want to collect.

And so at this point he began adding more avant-garde works to his collection, the likes of Picasso, Kandinsky, etc.

Were those actually all portraits of him done in...

Hello, Man fans.

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It's like, "Ha ha, they're all traveling to, like, the West Country on the M5, dashing.

I, I think it might be the best one we've done this year.

It's certainly-- It's right up there with Carina Graham anyway, in my view, but what do I know? Uh, Richard continues, "Oli, can I be Manbassador for Wool, in Dorset, please? Uh, it's a nice little village with a very loose connection to Thomas Hardy." [chuckles] It's honest of you to say.

Uh, "I regularly talk to people about how fabulous The Modern Man is, of course, and will continue to do so regardless of the award of this prestigious honor." Um, you know how to make an Oli Mann blush, Richard.

Um, sure, I'm happy to make you Manbassador for Wool.

The AI agents coming for your bank account, is there such a thing as ethical gold, and K-pop controversy at the Grammys.

I'm Olly Mann, and this is The Week Unwrapped.

And remember, you can read all you need to know about everything that matters in The Week magazine.

But joining me to unwrap the week from The Week's digital team is Harriet Marsden, Jamie Timpson, and Felicity Capon.

[upbeat music] It's October 8th, 1600, and another remarkable event is about to be uncovered by Aria, Rebecca, and Olly, the Retrospectors.

It was today in history in 1600 that San Marino, the world's fifth-smallest country, adopted a collection of six books as its governing documents, which together were called the Statutes, Decrees, and Ordinances of the Serene Republic of the Perpetual Freedom of the Land of San Marino.

[laughs] And wildly, the regulations they established are still in place today, leading many historians to declare San Marino as having the oldest continuously surviving constitution in the world, though also unleashing a torrent of anorakish discussion about what denotes a constitution, a nation state, and even what's meant by the concept of continuousness.

[upbeat music] It's October 7th, 1870, and another remarkable event is about to be uncovered by Aria, Rebecca, and Olly, the Retrospectors.

So it's today in history in 1870 that in a square in Montmartre, Leon Gambetta wrapped himself in a fur coat and took to the skies above Paris in a hot air balloon.

But this was no pleasure flight.

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