Podcasts

Lost Colony of Roanoke: Mystery of England's First American Settlers

The colonists of Roanoke Island in the 1580's were the very first English people to try to establish a permanent settlement in America. They...

Kateryn Parr on Film: Firebrand

In the last year of Henry VIII's life, his sixth wife Queen Kateryn Parr was accused of heresy and it looked as if her life could be on the...

Sir Walter Raleigh's Search for El Dorado

Sir Walter Raleigh's life was a turbulent one, to say the least. The Elizabethan statesman and explorer climbed to the top rung of Queen...

Pagan Ritual Nudity

Rituals are a big part of this funny human experience, aren't they?

Whether that's morning rituals like making your bed... or pagan rituals...

Warrior Viking Women

One of the enduring mysteries of the Viking Age is the identity of two people buried in a spectacular blood drenched ship in southern Norway in...

The Declaration of Independence: History’s Most Influential Document?

Assassin’s Creed III offers players a glimpse into the room where it happened - the signing of the Declaration of Independence. But was the...

Myth of the Minotaur: Half Man Half Bull

The myth of the Minotaur has endured thousands of years for good reason... it's hard to forget! Today, Maddy Pelling tells Anthony Delaney the...

How to Survive the Plague

A feature of outbreaks of plague between the 14th and 18th centuries was the publication of books and pamphlets, known as ‘plague tracts’,...

The Heist of the Century: The Missing Irish Crown Jewels

In the shadowy halls of Dublin Castle, 1907, a daring heist shook the British Empire. Four days before King Edward VII's royal visit, the...

Japanese in America: Railroads, Internment Camps & Little Tokyo

When the US turned to Japan looking for workers in the late 19th Century, they probably never foresaw that one day soon they would imprison those...

Massacre at Teutoburg Forest

2000 years ago, in the year 9 AD, a Roman Army walked into a trap deep in wilds of Germania. Over 15,000 men were massacred at Teutoburg Forest,...

Rewriting the First Crusade

The Crusades still capture the imagination today, for all of their professed good intentions they were also bloody ideological...