Historian Jack Fairweather tells the story of Witold Pilecki the Polish resistance agent who volunteered to be sent to Auschwitz concentration camp.
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Watch NowDamien Lewis explains the top-secret World War Two mission that was devised to steal what had become known as the 'Wurzburg Dish'.
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In 1940 the Polish resistance decided it needed to send an agent to Auschwitz concentration camp. They were desperate to find out what was going on ...
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During the Second World War the Netherlands fell to advancing German forces in just a few hours. The Dutch found themselves under Nazi occupation. Many ...
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The world faces a unique environmental challenge. The scale of response to this looming catastrophe can be overwhelming. But economist and activist Andrew Simms believes ...
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In October 1942 the British launched a small raid on the Channel Island of Sark. A cast of characters who gave their colleague Ian Fleming ideas ...
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In this podcast Dan talks to Golden Globe winning film maker Sam Mendes about his new World War One film 1917. Based in part on an ...
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In the 5th century BC the world's first super power, the Persian Empire, went to war against a ragtag collection of cities and statelets on ...
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After the First World War the German Army was in crisis. Limited in the size and its equipment by the Versailles Treaty which ended the ...
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Matt Lodder is the world's leading expert on the history of tattoos. He has found evidence of people using ink or charcoal on their bodies ...
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'Northumbrian patriot' Dan Jackson, who has just written a book on the history of Northeast England and its people, comes on the podcast to talk ...
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Roger Crowley is the author of the new book, Accursed Tower: The Crusaders' Last Battle for the Holy Land. The city of Acre, powerfully fortified ...
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Tony Blair, Julie McDowall the 'Atomic Hobo', Prof Mary Fulbrook, SAS veterans, Stephen Fry, Akala.... It has been a bumper year on the pod. We've ...
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Damien Lewis tells us of the formation of the SAS. In 1941 an alien-seeming object was captured in a death-defying dash by an RAF reconnaissance pilot ...
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