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Gladiators: The Real Spartacus
15 November 2024Spartacus is probably the most famous gladiator in history but how much of his legend is actually true? Dan is joined by Dr Rhiannon Evans, from...
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A CIA Man in China: 20 Years Imprisoned
14 November 2024This is the story of America's longest held prisoner of war. John 'Jack' Downey, an American CIA operative, was imprisoned by the Chinese for 21...
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38:50
Witchfinder General
14 November 2024In the aftermath of the Civil War, a remote corner of Essex witnessed the most brutally devastating witch-hunt in English history. A dangerous...
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37:44
Queen Victoria's Funeral & the Cult of Death
14 November 2024Queen Victoria was synonymous with grief and the Victorian cult of death. Yet her own funeral wasn't that at all. Today Dan O'Brien explains to...
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Caracalla & Geta: The Real Emperors of Gladiator II
14 November 2024The new Hollywood blockbuster Gladiator II features two of Rome's most villainous emperors - the brothers Caracalla and Geta.
And in today's...
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Gladiators: Myths vs Reality
13 November 2024Join Dan at Rome's Colosseum as he separates fact from fiction in the world of the gladiators. He traces the origins of gladiatorial fighting from...
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El Cid: Spain's Medieval Mercenary
12 November 2024Rodrigo Díaz - known as el Cid - lived a violently colourful life in 11th Century Spain. By turns an ambitious military leader, exile and brutal...
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44:35
Gladiators' Sex Lives
12 November 2024Who really were the gladiators of Ancient Rome?
With them once again hitting the big screens this month, we wanted to take you back a couple...
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48:43
Gladiators: The Colosseum
11 November 2024Join Dan on an adventure in Rome as he traces the true history of the gladiators. He begins his story in 64 AD with the great fire of Rome that...
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Shackleton's Endurance Expedition
11 November 2024In this dramatic episode, Dan tells the incredible story of how Shackleton saved every single man on the fated Endurance expedition from perishing...
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Nazis in America: Fascism in the 1930s
11 November 2024In 1933, The Pittsburgh Courier published an editorial entitled 'Hitler Learns from America'. So how and why was fascism on the rise in the...
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Invisible Activists of the Reformation
11 November 2024The names that spring first to mind in the Reformation of Christianity tend always to be male. But women were central to these extraordinary...
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