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Life in Mobland Chicago
27 July 2026Just how dangerous was it to live in Chicago during the 1920s? Was it all gangsters, tommy guns and spilt moonshine?
Don is finding out what...
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42:31
The Blitz Beyond London
27 July 2026Newcastle, Liverpool, Glasgow, Cardiff - all of these places and more were bombed during the Blitz. From the devastated shipyards of Tyneside to...
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Robespierre & Revolutionary Terror
27 July 2026How did the French Revolution, built on liberty, become ruled by fear? And how did Robespierre - the man who had sent kings, nobles and priests to...
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Murder In The Medici Court
27 July 2026In Medici Florence there were two ways of maintaining power - one was money and the other was murder. Isabella de’ Medici was the believed...
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Hollywood’s Odyssey: The Historians' Verdict
26 July 2026Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film Odyssey brings Homer’s epic roaring back to life and Tristan Hughes and Dr. Emily Hauser are here to...
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54:18
High Kings of Ireland
24 July 2026What if “High King” in medieval Ireland was less a fixed office than a fiercely contested prize, won through ritual, lineage, and force? On...
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53:22
Britain's Most Scandalous Queen
24 July 2026‘Who wants a girl with a personality?’ Historically, not the royals.
Queen Caroline of Brunswick became Queen Consort of the United...
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Long Walk of the Navajo
23 July 2026Between 1863 and 1866, more than 10,000 Navajo (Diné) were forcibly removed from their lands by the U.S. Military and forced to marched hundreds...
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A Short History of The Airport
23 July 2026It’s where our ancient instincts to travel, to trade, to reunite with family and explore meet modern technology and innovation. From muddy...
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56:31
The First New Zealanders
23 July 2026What if the first New Zealanders crossed an ocean, landed in a brand-new world, and built a whole society in just a few generations?
Tristan...
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52:57
How Protestants Justified Slavery
23 July 2026Was the Protestant Reformation ever truly global? How did radical theology, empire, slavery and missionary ambition collide across the early...
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The Most Disastrous Voyage in Navy History
23 July 2026It's hard to wrap your head around all the disasters that befell Captain Anson's Royal Navy voyage around the world in the 1740s. Rampant scurvy,...
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