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300 Years of British Prime Ministers Part 2
12 August 20222/2. It's a big summer for British politics with Boris Johnson's resignation and the race between conservative hopefuls Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss...
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27:32
Escaping the Blitz: A WW2 Evacuee Remembers
12 August 2022Today's guest Kitty Baxter was aged just nine when World War II broke out in 1939. One of five children born to a road sweeper and a cleaner,...
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51:17
Rasputin: Myth & Manhood
12 August 2022Was Rasputin really Russia’s greatest love machine? Did he have any healing powers? And why might his penis be pickling in a jar?
In this...
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43:21
The Witches of Warboys: England's Most Famous Witch Trial
11 August 2022The Cambridgeshire village of Warboys was the scene of one of the most famous English witch trials of the sixteenth century. There, the privileged...
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44:24
The Oracle of Delphi
11 August 2022"If Croesus goes to war he will destroy a great empire." That was the prophecy the Oracle of Delphi delivered to the Lydian King - she just...
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49:42
300 Years of British Prime Ministers Part 1
10 August 20221/2. It's a big summer for British politics with Boris Johnson's resignation and the race between conservative hopefuls Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss...
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36:47
Pyramids
10 August 2022The Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest building in the world for nearly four thousand years…until it was beaten by Lincoln...
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32:48
Unrest in Parliament: The Hot Summer of 1911
9 August 2022The summer of 1911 was a hot one. Massive strikes took place across the country, including seamen, railwaymen, coal miners, women working in food...
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43:04
What the Romans Did for Us
9 August 2022Early Medieval Britain was more Roman than we think. The Roman Empire left vast infrastructural resources, not least roads, walls and bridges. Why...
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41:31
Female Pirates
9 August 2022Yo ho ho, a pirate’s life for me - but what is a pirate’s life, and what was it like for women?
This is the story of Anne Bonny and Mary...
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44:21
The Origins of Rome
8 August 2022Known as the Eternal City, ancient Rome was one of the greatest civilisations in human history, but how did it come about?
With a turbulent...
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16:36
Paul Revere
8 August 2022His name has inspired poems, novels, songs… Paul Revere remains forever attached to his greatest accomplishment : his "Midnight Ride" on April...
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34:01
Nagasaki: Friendly Fire
8 August 2022Warning: The events recounted in this episode may be distressing to some listeners
At 11.02 am on August 9 1945, America dropped the world's...
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38:56
Samuel Pepys
8 August 2022The great diarist Samuel Pepys was an avid collector of books, news and gossip, and reading was a major part of his life and the lives of his...
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27:44
The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
7 August 2022On August 6 and 9, 1945, US B-29 bombers, dropped their nuclear bombs on the two cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing hundreds of thousands...
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41:55
Ancient Americas: Debunking The Maya Apocalypse
7 August 2022One of the most famous, and sophisticated, cultures of Mesoamerica, why are the Maya known only for predicting the end of the world?
In the...
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32:29
Transistors & Telecommunication Satellites: Bell Labs
7 August 2022The transistor; solar panels; the first telecommunications satellite; cell phone networks; UNIX code; information theory. All these and more were...
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29:57
A History of Britain in 50 Documents
6 August 2022How do you go about finding your way around the history of a nation and a national identity? For the barrister and author Dominic Selwood,...
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40:34
Abortion in the UK
5 August 2022As the right to decide whether to terminate a pregnancy is challenged on the other side of the Atlantic, today Betwixt the Sheets we are looking...
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33:43
Hiroshima: A Survivor's Story
5 August 2022Warning: The events recounted in this episode may be distressing to some listeners
Keiko Ogura was just eight years old on August 6 1945...
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48:15
Anne Frank's Step Sister: 'How I Survived the Holocaust' Part 2
4 August 20222/2. Eva Schloss remembers her days as a girl in Amsterdam playing in the street with the other children including Anne Frank who, for a time,...
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