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Is the Devil Dead?
23 January 2025(2/2) What does the resurrection of a hanged woman have to do with the Devil? Did the Enlightenment kill Old Nick or is he still a part of our...
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Babylon's Epic of Creation
23 January 2025The biblical story of creation is famous - but did you know an even older myth may have influenced it? Enter the Enuma Elish, Babylon’s own Epic...
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How WW1 Inspired The Lord of The Rings
22 January 2025J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth is perhaps the most captivating fantasy world ever created. His mythology and folklore continue to influence the...
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Teutonic Knights
21 January 2025Who built the imposing castles of Poland and Lithuania?
Dr. Eleanor Janega is joined by archeologist Aleksander Pluskowski to discuss the...
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Erotic Letters of Ancient Rome
21 January 2025Long before phones allowed for sexting, how did the Ancient Romans exchange their illicit thoughts and desires? And what did a Roman dick pic look...
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Vasco da Gama and The Rise of the Portuguese Empire
20 January 2025Dan tells the epic story of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, whose daring voyages at the turn of the 16th century laid the foundations for the...
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Romans in America
20 January 2025Why was there once a fashion for styling your hair like Brutus, the most famous of Julius Caesar's assassins? Why are there so many neoclassical...
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Wolf Hall: Who's Who?
20 January 2025Professor Suzannah Lipscomb explores the lives of the cast of Tudor courtiers who appear in Wolf Hall, including Thomas Cromwell, Richard Rich,...
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Suleiman the Magnificent
20 January 2025Assassin’s Creed Revelations lets us meet a young Suleiman before he became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and long before he became “the...
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Final Days of Henry VIII
20 January 2025You could smell Henry VIII's rotting legs from three rooms by the end. He was in constant pain, barely able to move. Yet he never loosed his grip...
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Charlemagne
20 January 2025Charlemagne was king of the Franks and Emperor of the mighty Carolingian Empire. His unusually long reign saw him conquer vast swathes of Europe,...
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The Franks
19 January 2025How did the Franks rise to power in the fragmented Western Roman Empire?
Tristan Hughes explores the dramatic story of the Franks, from...
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