Podcasts

Rosy Royals: Tudor & Stuart Gardens

One subtle but powerful way that the Tudor and Stuart monarchs tried to show off their magnificence was through the creation of gardens that...

On the Frontline at Stalingrad

Dan explains the bloody Battle of Stalingrad alongside exclusive, never before heard frontline accounts from the German soldiers who were there....

Tyrannosaurus Rex

67 million years ago the most famous meat-eating dinosaur prowled the earth - the Tyrannosaurus Rex. At it's full size, this prehistoric apex...

What Did The Vikings Really Look Like?

Were the Vikings the original trendsetters?

Even when they were raiding the poor monks in Lindsfarne in 793, they were passing on hairstyles...

How To Live Like a Viking

The stories often told and retold of the early medieval period are those of great kings, battles and daring deeds. But ordinary people can often...

The Battle of Arnhem with Al Murray

Al Murray, host of WWII podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk joins Dan to tell the story of the most catastrophic 24-hours the British military...

Outlaws: New York's Criminal Mastermind

When was the first bank robbery? What does it take to be successful in organized crime? Is it possible to be non-violent? And how might you avoid...

Oliver Cromwell: Protector & Dictator

Four years into Britain's experiment as a republic, Oliver Cromwell staged a coup, violently dissolving parliament. His “Bare Bones...

Ned Kelly: Australia's Notorious Outlaw

Ned Kelly is a murdering, bank-robbing, Australian folk hero. What is the true history of this mythic figure? And how did an outlaw - or...

Ra and the Sun Gods

Of all the Egyptian Gods it is Ra, the God of the Sun, who is perhaps most well known in the popular imagination. He is said to have voyaged...

Operation Market Garden

Operation Market Garden was an ambitious Allied airborne offensive to secure a quick victory in WWII. It failed disastrously.

The plan was...

Cruising & Cottaging: Sex in Public Places

With privacy being a modern luxury, where did people in the past go to meet and hook up? Public toilets were (and can still be) a popular...