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D-Day: The Land Invasion
6 June 2024Dan 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...
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D-Day: The Air Invasion
6 June 2024In 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...
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D-Day: The Sea Invasion
6 June 2024This 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...
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America at D-Day
6 June 2024On June 6, 1944, the Allied forces combined their land, air and sea forces into the largest amphibious invasion in history - D-Day.
Under...
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A Tudor Mystery: The Girl Who Could Be Queen
6 June 2024This episode solves the 400-year old mystery of a previously unknown portrait of a young woman, dressed to look just like Queen Elizabeth...
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The Witch of New York: 1840's Murder Trials of Polly Bodine
6 June 2024On Christmas night 1843 a mother and child were found murdered inside their burned out home. Suspicion fell on one Polly Bodine. Over the next...
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Noah's Ark and the Flood
5 June 2024The Ancients launches a new miniseries exploring the stories, people, objects and kingdoms central to the Old Testament's narrative.
There...
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Las Vegas & Atomic Tourism
4 June 2024In 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...
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Fantastic Beasts of the Middle Ages
4 June 2024In the Middle Ages, animals were often the means for survival and the source of great wealth. No wonder then that in the medieval...
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Incest in Ancient Rome
4 June 2024What'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...
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Julius Caesar's Sex Life
3 June 2024"I came. I saw. I conquered".
Perhaps the most famous Julius Caesar quote of all time. But after hearing all about his bedroom antics, it...
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Six Wives: Anne Boleyn
3 June 2024Six wives - six lives that we think we know everything about. But beyond their mostly doomed marriages to Henry VIII and, in most cases,...
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