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The Fake Princess Who Fooled Georgian England
5 May 2026What you'll hear in today's episode is a story that strikes to the dark heart of the British Empire.
Despite being set in the time of Jane...
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55:34
Cadaver Synod: Trial of a Dead Pope
5 May 2026What could drive a pope to put a corpse on trial?
In 897, Rome staged one of the Middle Ages’ strangest spectacles: the Cadaver Synod,...
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44:07
The Scandalous Life of Lord Byron
4 May 2026WARNING: This episode includes discussion of sexual abuse and explicit language.
He appalled and titillated Regency polite society in equal...
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The Haunting of Cock Lane
4 May 2026Today we are celebrating the upcoming publication of Maddy's new book 'Hoax: Truth and Lies in the Age of Enlightenment' by sharing one of the...
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43:04
Royal Favourites: Robert Dudley, Elizabeth I's Forbidden Love
4 May 2026Passion, scandal, and power collided in the tumultuous relationship between Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley. Rumours of secret trysts between them...
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53:36
A Day in the Life of a Puritan
4 May 2026What if we told you that puritans were actually sex-crazed? Well maybe not crazed but definitely not opposed to it.
What if we told you...
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48:53
The Prehistoric Plague
3 May 2026The first ever outbreak of 'plague' - Yersinia Pestis, the most feared disease in human history - was long thought to be the Plague of...
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56:40
Christine de Pizan: Pioneering French Feminist
1 May 2026How did a widowed mother transform loss, politics and misogyny into one of the most accomplished literary careers in medieval history?
From...
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52:14
Sex Work in Colonial India
1 May 2026When the British Empire colonised India, how did it treat their different ideas about sex? How did they treat sex workers like the Devadasi,...
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38:13
George Washington's Spies
30 April 2026During the Revolutionary War a vital web of intelligence was established, with General Washington at its head. Operating through coded letters,...
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49:10
Bloody Mary
30 April 2026In 1553, Mary Tudor became the first woman to sit on the English throne - a reign of just five years, that history has remembered almost...
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58:41
The Persian Gulf
30 April 2026Near the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most vital commercial chokepoints, lies an ancient trade route that powered civilisation 4,000...
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