Historian Nicola Tallis comes on the show to talk about the extraordinary Margaret Beaufort: 'Mother of the Tudors' and the ancestor of all subsequent royals.
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Watch NowFrank McDonough, world leading expert on the domestic side of Hitler's Germany, explains why and how Hitler was able to establish and sustain his rule ...
Watch NowMax Eisen was only a child when he and his family were taken from their Hungarian home to the infamous Auschwitz Concentration Camp during the ...
Watch NowLord Sumption, former Supreme Court judge, provides Dan a detailed run-through of the seisimic conflict that gripped England and France during the 14th and 15th ...
Watch NowFrom daring commando raids to an underwater reconnoitre of untouched World War Two archaeology, join Dan as he explores the extraordinary wartime history of Guernsey ...
Watch NowProfessor Mary Fulbrook talks to Dan about the justice process that followed the Holocaust, about what drove people to commit war crimes and what stopped ...
Watch Now'Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh' curator Dr. Tarek El Awady gives Dan an exclusive tour of the exhibition and the remarkable treasures of Tutankhamun, 'The ...
Watch NowAuthor Rory MacLean was present when the Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989. He talks about the jubilation of the East Berliners, as well as what ...
Watch NowProfessor of Modern History David Andress talks Dan through the French Revolution: the causes, the context, its significance and its wide-felt consequences.
Watch Now11th December, 2019
Historian Robert Saunders from Queen Mary University of London talks about the elections in the past that he feels have most resonance and parallels today. ...
Listen Now10th December, 2019
Something a little different... Total War: Three Kingdoms is the fastest selling real time strategy of all time, and based on the Wei, Shu, and ...
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Dan talks to Dr. Nicola Tallis about Margaret Beaufort. Aged 13, Beaufort endured a traumatic childbirth that brought her close to death. Forced to give up ...
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Graham Faiella talks to Dan about legends and true tales from the Age of Sail. Cannibalism, pirates and mutiny. For information regarding your data privacy, ...
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David Shariatmadari dives into the words we say. How did language come about, how and why do we use it? For ad free versions of ...
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Alderney, like the rest of the Channel Islands, was occupied by German forces from 1940 to 1945. On Hitler's orders it was turned into a fortress, covered ...
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Austerlitz is one of Napoleon's greatest victories. Late in the season, at the end of a long and vulnerable supply line, deep into eastern Europe, ...
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Professor Frank McDonough has just written a monumental history of the Third Reich. He is a world leading expert on the domestic side of Hitler's ...
Listen Now28th November, 2019
2019 marks 100 years since Nancy Astor, the first female MP in Britain, took her seat in the House of Commons. Rachel Reeves, long-serving Labour politician and ...
Listen Now26th November, 2019
Award winning broadcaster, journalist and author Gaia Vince talks to Dan about why humans evolved. Not just biologically but in terms of our language, culture ...
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Lord Jonathan Sumption is coming to the end of his magisterial multi-volume history of the Hundred Year's War. He believes it was essentially a French ...
Listen Now21st November, 2019
November 2019 marks the 500th anniversary of the meeting of Hernan Cortes and Aztec ruler Montezuma at the gates of the magnificent Aztec capital at Tenochitlan, ...
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