Podcasts

Pegasus Bridge: The First Assault of D-Day

Just after midnight on the 6th of June, 1944, 181 British glider-borne infantry crashed to earth in the Normandy countryside. They clambered out...

D-Day: The Deception that Made it Possible

Please note that this episode contains explicit language.

On the 29th of May, 1944, less than a week before D-Day, General George S. Patton...

D-Day: The Land Invasion

Dan and military historian Stephen Fischer record a moment by moment play of the dramatic and bloody first crucial hour and a half of D-day, as it...

D-Day: The Air Invasion

In the second episode of our D-Day series, we look to the skies. In the build-up to Operation Overlord, thousands of Allied pilots in heavy...

D-Day: The Sea Invasion

This is the often forgotten chapter of the D-Day story.

To begin our series for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, we turn to the...

America at D-Day

On June 6, 1944, the Allied forces combined their land, air and sea forces into the largest amphibious invasion in history - D-Day.

Under...

A Tudor Mystery: The Girl Who Could Be Queen

This episode solves the 400-year old mystery of a previously unknown portrait of a young woman, dressed to look just like Queen Elizabeth...

The Witch of New York: 1840's Murder Trials of Polly Bodine

On Christmas night 1843 a mother and child were found murdered inside their burned out home. Suspicion fell on one Polly Bodine. Over the next...

Noah's Ark and the Flood

The Ancients launches a new miniseries exploring the stories, people, objects and kingdoms central to the Old Testament's narrative.

There...

Las Vegas & Atomic Tourism

In the 1950s, the US government conducted a series of nuclear bomb tests in the Mojave desert, right next door to Las Vegas. Tourists flocked to...

Fantastic Beasts of the Middle Ages

In the Middle Ages, animals were often the means for survival and the source of great wealth. No wonder then that in the medieval...

Incest in Ancient Rome

What's the worst thing you could accuse someone of in Ancient Rome? There are a few strong candidates, but incest is definitely up there.

In...