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Ghost Ship: The Mary Celeste
15 January 2024In 1872 the ghost ship Mary Celeste is found sailing across the Atlantic without a single crew member left on board. Theories over what happened...
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38:44
King Arthur's Sex Life
15 January 2024The stories of King Arthur are among the great legends of British history. But behind the romance, chivalry and sorcery of it all, there were some...
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32:48
15th Century Puritan Fanatic, Savonarola
15 January 2024Girolamo Savonarola was a late 15th century Dominican friar who rose to become a preacher, prophet, and politician. He took on the corruption...
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19:57
The Pioneer Of The East: Thomas Tew
15 January 2024The new season of "Echoes of History" features Ubisoft's new game: "Skull and Bones".
At the end of the 17th century, pirates scoured the...
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46:44
Mike Sadler: The Last SAS Soldier
15 January 2024In this episode, we remember Mike Sadler the last of the original SAS men who recently died at the age of 103. Major Sadler was the navigator for...
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51:09
The Bronze Age Collapse
13 January 2024The Bronze Age Collapse was one of the most cataclysmic events in human history. Over just a few decades, civilisations across the Mediterranean...
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47:01
Alexander The Great Sex's Life
12 January 2024Was he as great in bed as he was at conquering the Persian empire?
Whether he even had time for it, is another question. In today's episode,...
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The Election That Changed Politics: 1968
11 January 2024Chaos, collusion and the Chennault Affair. What made the election of 1968 so unusual?
Luke Nichter joins Don to talk about the election race...
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25:59
Medieval Anatomy
11 January 2024How did medieval surgeons, doctors and monks understand the inner workings of the human body? Who performed the first scientific human...
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35:20
How to Survive in Tudor England
11 January 2024Life in Tudor England was risky. In addition to the outbreaks of plague, the threat of poverty and the dangers of childbirth, there were...
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31:49
Myths of King Arthur: Origins, Creepy Sex & Magic Swords
11 January 2024King Arthur. Merlin. The Knights of the Round Table and the Sword in the Stone. We think we know these stories but they've changed a lot since...
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Japan's Tokugawa Shogunate
11 January 2024The Warring States period brought Japan to its knees. It was a time of turbulence and treachery, with rival warlords fighting bitterly for control...
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