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The Parthians
9 June 2024The Parthians were heavyweights of ancient Mesopotamia. Hailing from what is now modern day Iran, they charged onto the scene by destroying the...
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Tudor Origins of the Condom
7 June 2024What were condoms like in Tudor times? Before you were able to pop to the supermarket to pick some up, where did people buy them?
Joining...
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The Anarchy: Disruptive Women
7 June 2024The Anarchy is an intriguing and often forgotten period of history. There are fascinating characters and moments of deep political importance...
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Inside North Korea
6 June 2024With closed borders, a totalitarian regime, electricity blackouts and widespread poverty, North Korea is a brutal place to survive; even...
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Pegasus Bridge: The First Assault of D-Day
6 June 2024Just after midnight on the 6th of June, 1944, 181 British glider-borne infantry crashed to earth in the Normandy countryside. They clambered out...
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D-Day: The Deception that Made it Possible
6 June 2024Please note that this episode contains explicit language.
On the 29th of May, 1944, less than a week before D-Day, General George S. Patton...
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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.
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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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