Podcasts

Richard III's Mother: Cecily

Cecily Neville was the matriarch of the House of York, the mother of two kings of England and an ancestor of every monarch since Henry VIII. Born...

American Operators on WW1's Front Line

When the First World War ended at 11am on 11 November, 1918, how did army command relay the ceasefire to their troops? In fact, before radios and...

New York Morgue's Dark Secrets

The unclaimed dead of New York City's streets and rivers were once brought to the notorious New York Morgue. It's a history that has never been...

Hestia: Goddess of Hearth & Home

As both the eldest and youngest child of the great titan Kronos, and the Greek goddess of hearth and home, Hestia was incredibly important in...

Henry VII: Rise of the Medieval Tudors

Henry VII was descended from some of the greatest Welsh princes. When word spread that he had a chance of taking the English throne, Welsh...

The Warsaw Uprising

80 years ago, the Polish resistance rose up against their German occupiers and tried to seize back control of their capital city. For two months a...

The Boy Who Hid in the Woods: How I Survived the Holocaust

Warning: this episode contains descriptions of violence.

Maxwell Smart was just a boy when the Nazis came for him and his family. Within...

The Dark History of Bearded Ladies & the Victorian Freak Show

What would it have really been like to visit a Victorian freak show? Were "freak performers" exploited, or empowered in a world that would likely...

Rollo: The First Norman

Rollo was a Viking leader who became the first ruler of Normandy in the early 10th century. His descendants, the Normans, later conquered England...

A History of Cheating at the Olympics

Dan is joined by the QI Elves James Harkin and Anna Ptaszynski to talk about cheating in sports as the 2024 Olympics get underway. Why do we do it...

The Third Presidential Assassination: McKinley

On 6th September, 1901, President William McKinley attended a public reception at the Pan American Exposition, a 6-month-long World’s Fair, in...

Hippocrates: The Father Of Medicine

Around 460 BCE, a man was born in Ancient Greece who would change medicine forever. He invented a new scientific approach to medicine that...