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Ep 9 (Gumdrop): Where do the days of the week come from?

Ep 9 (Gumdrop): Where do the days of the week come from?

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Where do we get our days of the week from? Who named them and who decided their order in the week? And just why did we go with seven days rather than the far more rounded 10 day week?

In this ‘gumdrop’ episode, Craig takes you back 4,200 years to where it all began - with those overachieving Babylonians.

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