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The People's Founding Father
3 September 2026Signatory of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, James Wilson was a sitting Supreme Court justice when he died. So why is...
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The Rise & Fall of Babylon
3 September 2026Babylon has a PR problem, and it's 2,600 years in the making.
The Bible remembers it as the ultimate city of sin, the place that crushed...
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59:57
Egypt's Lost Cities
3 September 2026What happens when an entire city disappears? Beneath the sands and wetlands of Egypt lie the remains of forgotten cities that once stood at the...
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How to Survive as a Tudor Peasant
3 September 2026What was everyday life like for an ordinary person in Tudor times? How did dramatic changes in population, climate, disease and the economy...
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43:48
The Wild Story of America's Biggest Traitor
3 September 2026Benedict Arnold was celebrated as a war hero of the American Revolution before he betrayed George Washington and the Continental Army by joining...
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The King Who Created Medieval Bohemia
1 September 2026In 12th-century Bohemia, every royal funeral sparked a civil war. Dr. Eleanor Janega discovers how Přemysl Otakar I survived backstabbing...
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Slavery in the Roman Empire
1 September 2026Behind the impressive relics the Romans left behind lurks a much darker story: that most of Rome was built on the back of enslaved...
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The Truth About the Louisiana Purchase
31 August 2026We're all taught in school about the Louisiana Purchase, supposedly the greatest bargain in American history. Napoleon's deal with the Americans...
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Templar's Tunnels, HMS Victory and Troy: History's Best Historical Sites with Dan Jones
31 August 2026The two great Dans of history - Dan Snow and Dan Jones - team up to explore the stories behind some of the world's best historical sites. Dan...
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Young Elizabeth I: Princess & Prisoner
31 August 2026How did a child written off by the Tudor court rise to become one of England's most iconic monarchs?
Before she became queen, Elizabeth...
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Is This New York's Craziest Murder Case?
31 August 2026This week we're revisiting a favourite episode set in New York at the end of the 20th century.
The year is 1897, and this murder case has it...
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Augustus vs Agrippa with Robert Harris
30 August 2026Augustus was Rome's first Emperor. But who made his empire possible? Behind the throne stood Marcus Agrippa, the brilliant general whose victories...
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