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The Borgias: History's Most Villainous Family
11 November 2024The Borgias are a lynchpin in the history of the Italian Renaissance. Their tale of intrigue, corruption and cut-throat ambition still inspires...
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37:26
Final Days of Captain Cook
11 November 2024The violent death of Captain James Cook, British explorer, on a Hawaiian beach in 1779 has become the stuff of legend. Should we believe the story...
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50:58
The Minotaur
10 November 2024Half man and half bull, the Minotaur is one of the most famous, and scariest, monsters of Greek mythology.
The story goes that it was...
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55:07
The Battle of Agincourt
8 November 2024Join Matt Lewis and Professor Michael Livingston to unravel the legendary Battle of Agincourt.
They cover the lesser-known strategic...
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58:08
The Real Sylvia Plath
8 November 2024** TW: This episode contains themes of suicide **
Sylvia Plath was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.
During and...
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35:30
Presidents' Private Lives
7 November 2024With the US election happening, we wanted to take a look back at the presidents from the past what we know about their sex lives.
Which...
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42:45
Ghosts of Hampton Court Palace
7 November 2024The ghost of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, screaming down a corridor. A nursemaid's spinning wheel clicking in the walls. Robed...
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40:25
The Witch
7 November 2024Join Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and Professor Ronald Hutton as they explore the evolving definitions of witches, the global spread of witch...
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The Ancient Amazon
7 November 2024Today, we often see the Amazon basin as an endless expanse of trees and rainforest. But 2,000 years ago, at the same time that great cities like...
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36:34
The Clinton Body Count to the QAnon Shaman: Conspiracy Theories in American Politics
6 November 2024From the Clinton 'crime family' to businessman JP Morgan sinking the Titanic to kill off his rivals, conspiracy theories are rife on the internet....
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How The Vikings Shaped Ireland and Britain
5 November 2024The Viking Age saw the creation of new towns and new kingdoms in Britain and Ireland. What impact did Norse settlers have on politics, culture and...
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36:57
Sex Lives of Presidents
5 November 2024With the US election happening, we wanted to take a look back at the presidents from the past what we know about their sex lives.
Which...
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