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The Reluctant Pirate: William Kidd
5 February 2024The new season of "Echoes of History" features Ubisoft's new game: "Skull and Bones".
You're not born a pirate, you become one. This motto...
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The City of Alexandria
5 February 2024This is the story of a city that laid the foundations for our modern world. Sitting at the intersection of East and West, Alexandria has been home...
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The Epic of Gilgamesh: Rise of Enkidu
4 February 2024The Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the oldest surviving works of storytelling from history. Written in ancient Mesopotamia over three thousand years...
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The Fairy Hoax That Fooled the World
4 February 2024In 1920 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published a story more explosive than any adventure of Sherlock Holmes. He claimed that photographic evidence had...
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31:56
WWII: The Allied Invasion of Italy
4 February 2024By the summer of 1943, there were Allied boots on Axis soil. Sicily had been taken, and fascism's grip on Italy was beginning to loosen. But...
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President Franklin Pierce: Tragedies & Trade-Offs
1 February 2024We're creeping closer and closer to the Civil War in our chronology of presidents, and this episode's focus did little to delay the division of...
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Neanderthal Sex
1 February 2024What comes to mind when you think of a neanderthal?
Probably a hunched, hairy, grunting version of a man who’s shuffling around his...
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42:54
Tudor Conquest of Ireland
1 February 2024Henry VIII was termed "by the Grace of God, King of England, France and Ireland.” Ireland was England’s oldest colony. But what...
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Geoffrey Chaucer: Father of English Literature
1 February 2024Geoffrey Chaucer is perhaps medieval England’s most famous writer and poet. Now a new exhibition at the Bodleian Library in Oxford is setting...
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40:48
The First Dogs
1 February 2024For millennia dogs have been undoubtedly man’s best friend. But when did humans first start keeping dogs as pets? The fascinating story of...
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The American Ripper
1 February 2024Who was the American Ripper? How many people died at his hands? What on earth is a 'murder castle'? Anthony and Maddy head down a rabbit hole on...
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Prohibition
1 February 2024On 17 January 1920, the 18th Amendment came into effect in the United States. It made the manufacture, sale and transportation of 'intoxicating...
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