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How The USA Supplied WW2
13 February 2023Before America officially entered the Second World War in December 1941, it offered the allies significant support in terms of military supplies...
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Snakes & Ladders: Tantric Mysticism, Cosmic Serpents and the Meaning of Life
12 February 2023It turns out that all those times you played Snakes and Ladders (Chutes and Ladders) as a child you were playing a game that once symbolised the...
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Cleopatra's Daughter
12 February 2023Cleopatra VII is one of the most famous individuals from the ancient world. The final Queen of Ancient Egypt, and a woman who used her position to...
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Origins of Treason in England
11 February 2023First defined in law in 1352, treason remains one of the most serious crimes a person can commit. And, remarkably, the core of the original...
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Food, Sin & Shame
10 February 2023Why might a medieval nun drink the pus of an ill patient? Where does ‘fishy Friday’ come from? And what does all of this have to do with...
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38:47
Nuclear Near Misses
10 February 2023What happens when a nuclear bomb is accidentally dropped onto foreign soil? Or when a nuke just goes missing? Rather worryingly, it happens more...
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The Battle of Valcour Island
9 February 2023The first naval engagement of the American War of Independence took place on Lake Champlain, which straddles modern-day New York state and Vermont...
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The Murder of Christopher Marlowe
9 February 2023This month on Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb investigates four of history’s most notorious murders and brutal crimes.
In...
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Homo Erectus
9 February 2023Before modern humans walked the earth, and even before the Neanderthals, Homo Erectus dominated the plains of Africa. Eventually migrating across...
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Farming
8 February 2023Exactly when, where, how, why our ancient ancestors ‘invented’ farming is one of the great questions of archaeology.
Surely if we can...
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26:34
The Monastery That Held Back the Vikings
7 February 2023For monks and monasteries in Anglo-Saxon England, obliteration by Vikings was a constant threat. Like Lindisfarne - first raided in 793 AD -...
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The Real Casanova
7 February 2023Can you imagine being SO smooth-talking and seductive your surname becomes an actual noun in the dictionary to describe someone who has a...
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Jamestown
6 February 2023In late April 1607, three ships carrying a hundred men and boys arrived in Chesapeake Bay, having set sail from London four months earlier. They...
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The History of Britain's Black Airmen
6 February 2023When you think of some of the remarkable feats of airpower throughout history, you might think of the Dambusters, or the Battle of Britain. But...
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Henrietta Maria, Charles I’s Queen Consort
6 February 2023Charles I's Queen Henrietta Maria was perhaps the most reviled consort to have worn the crown of Britain's three kingdoms. To this day, she...
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Spam: Birth of a Monster
5 February 2023Spam Spam Spam, glorious Spam! Who invented Spam Emails? Just how much Spam activity is there online? And how will we survive once Spam AI gets...
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Aphrodite: Goddess of Love
5 February 2023This episode contains graphic references.
Aphrodite is the goddess of love and beauty in Greek mythology.
Her origin story is one of...
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Edward III, His Queen & His Mistress
4 February 2023Edward III wed Philippa of Hainault when they were both teenagers. It was a marriage of deep affection lasting 41 years. But when Alice Perrers...
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Stalingrad
3 February 2023The Battle of Stalingrad was the deadliest battle of the Second World War, seeing 1.2 million killed, and thousands more wounded. One of the most...
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Marie Stopes: Birth Control & Eugenics
3 February 2023Why would someone disown their son over a pair of glasses? How could an unmarried woman in 1918 have published a book about sexual pleasure? And...
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The First American in Space
2 February 2023In Spring 1961, the Space Race between the US and Soviet Union was well underway. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in Space...
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