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The Psychiatric Hospital that Fought the Nazis
9 March 2023There are descriptions of suffering early in this episode that some listeners may find distressing.
As hospitals and institutions across...
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29:27
The First Computer Program
8 March 2023This is the story of the first modern computer program and the extraordinary woman who wrote it, Klara von Neumann.
The program Klara wrote...
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29:44
The Women Who Organised the Battle of Britain
8 March 2023In a suburb of North-West London, among housing estates and residential streets lies a secret bunker, you may never have heard of it but it's one...
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41:59
From Eve to Austen: Women in Literature
7 March 2023Why might a woman have willingly confined herself to a cell for the rest of her life? Why have so many female authors in history published under...
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39:38
Medieval Women with Eleanor Janega
7 March 2023What made for the ideal woman in the Middle Ages? In her new book The Once and Future Sex, Dr. Eleanor Janega looks at what beauty,...
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27:38
Uniting Europe After WWII
7 March 2023Count Coudenhove-Kalergi was one of the most influential 20th Century European thinkers that you've never heard of. He was a pioneer of European...
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36:56
New Amsterdam
6 March 2023Before New York was New York, it was New Amsterdam. Dutch colonists arrived on the East Coast in the early 17th century, creating the New...
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34:09
Katherine of Aragon: England's First Renaissance Queen
6 March 2023In preparation for International Women's Day this Wednesday, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb takes a look at a Queen whose reputation has largely been...
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39:50
Tony Blair & The Iraq War
6 March 2023March 2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the Iraq war, seeing US and British troops enter the country - the legalities of which are still debated...
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24:20
The Making of 'All Quiet on the Western Front'
6 March 2023All Quiet on the Western Front is the 2022 film adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's famous anti-war novel. Told from the German perspective, it...
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37:48
Keyboards
5 March 2023The keyboard on the first ever commercially successful typewriter and the keyboard on your smartphone are separated by a gulf of time and...
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42:34
Dinosaurs: The Last Days
5 March 2023Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid the size of Mount Everest slammed into our planet, triggering the mass extinction of the dinosaurs and...
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23:35
Erotic Medieval Poet: Gwerful Mechain
4 March 2023Wales in the Medieval period had a thriving bardic tradition and one poet is particularly fascinating. Gwerful Mechain lived in the second half of...
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38:23
The History of Periods
3 March 2023‘It’s my time of the month’, ‘the painters are in’, ‘aunt flo is visiting’, or a simple ‘I’m on the rag’
Periods are a...
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18:05
1917 Russian Revolution with Antony Beevor
3 March 2023One of the most significant events of the 20th century, the 1917 Russian Revolution saw the overthrow of the Tsar and the birth of a new communist...
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22:02
The Last Nuremberg Prosecutor
3 March 2023102 year old Ben Ferencz is the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials and a direct witness to the horrors of the Nazi death camps....
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37:04
George III - The Last King of America
2 March 2023George III is forever known as the king who lost the 13 American colonies. In the US he is thought of by many as a tyrant king, taxing and...
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36:51
Jews & the Inquisition in Italy
2 March 2023Between 1598 and 1785, the Papal or Roman Inquisition in Modena, Northern Italy, put 393 Jews on trial. Regarded as infidels, Jews were accused...
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40:39
The First Humans
2 March 2023Where do humans come from? Or, perhaps more interestingly, who did humans evolve from? A question once posed by the likes of Charles Darwin and...
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35:25
Lady Hamilton: Nelson's Mistress
2 March 2023The Kim Kardashian of Georgian England; she was a young housemaid who became one of the most famous socialites in the Western world and stole the...
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30:51
Filing Cabinets: How They Changed the World
1 March 2023It’s perhaps the most overlooked invention of all time. Consigned to a forgotten corner in the basement of history. The Filing...
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