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Göbekli Tepe: The First Temple?
6 March 2025Long before Stonehenge, ancient builders in southeast Türkiye were creating some of the world’s first monumental stone structures. Their most...
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Robert Dudley: Elizabeth I's Forbidden Love
6 March 2025Passion, scandal, and power collided in the tumultuous relationship between Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley. Rumours of secret trysts between them...
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Death at the Savoy Mansions: Post-War London's Drug Underworld
6 March 2025During the victory celebrations of World War One, a rising star is found dead in her bed after a suspected overdose.
22-year-old Billie...
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Swords And Throwing Stars: What Weapons Did Samurai and Shinobi Use?
6 March 2025Chasing Shadows 3. Weapons
Assassin's Creed Shadows gives players the chance to experience history as two icons of medieval Japan: samurai...
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31:14
D-day to Berlin: The Americans Cross the Rhine
5 March 202580 years ago this week, American forces unexpectedly discovered an intact bridge across the river Rhine - the last natural defence of the...
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48:32
German Peasants' War
4 March 2025Dr. Eleanor Janega is joined by historians Andy Drummond and Professor Lyndal Roper to explore the dramatic events of the German Peasants' War,...
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43:06
Beauty & Ugliness in the Ancient World
4 March 2025When we think about Greek and Roman beauty, we think of marble statues of huge men with tiny...feet.
But what did it mean to be a beautiful...
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36:13
Shakespeare's Daughter, Judith
3 March 2025The brief life of William Shakespeare's son Hamnet is now quite well known, thanks to Maggie O'Farrell's novel, but Hamnet also had a twin sister...
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The Confederacy: Who Was Jefferson Davis?
3 March 2025Only one person has ever held the title of President of the Confederate States of America. In this episode, we're going to find out more about him...
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The Servants' Revenge: Arsenic & a Poisoned Pint of Beer
3 March 2025Why did two servants living in Plymouth, England, poison their whole household in 1675? How did they sneak arsenic into the food? And what on...
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Samurai vs Guns: The Battle of Nagashino
3 March 2025Assassin's Creed Shadows transports players to a formative period in Japanese history - the Sengoku era, when warlords vied for control of Japan,...
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THE LEADERS: Hitler
3 March 2025Could Germany have won the war if not for Hitler's hubris? Dan is joined by Professor Phillips O'Brien to explore Hitler's biggest decisions...
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