We can all remember the stories we were told as children:

Santa Claus lives at the North Pole;

St Bernard dogs carry brandy to help lost climbers;

Lady Godiva rode naked through Coventry.

They were great stories – and we believed them.

But are they true?

Max Cryer sets out to investigate the truth or otherwise of ideas and beliefs we may have always been told are true, but which on closer examination may not be. For example:

Did Winston Churchill coin the term ‘Iron Curtain’?

‘OK’ is an American expression, right?

Tulips come from Holland, don’t they?

Did Sarah Palin say, ‘I can see Russia from my house?’