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Origins of Sparta
2 December 2023Considered one of Athens' biggest rivals, and known for their bloodthirsty and brutal nature - there's a reason the Spartans have been...
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AIDS Epidemic: Life & Death On The Frontline
1 December 2023How do we understand something as huge as a global epidemic?
Similarly to Covid, the AIDS epidemic, which was most destructive in the 1980s...
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Operation Downfall: What if the Allies Invaded Japan?
30 November 2023How would the Allied forces have forced the surrender of Japan had they not dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Operation Downfall...
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Montaigne: Philosopher of the French Renaissance
30 November 2023Centuries before Proust's Remembrance of Things Past took us on a tour of memory and James Joyce played with stream of consciousness, a 16th...
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The Fall of Constantinople
30 November 2023May 1453 saw Constantinople under siege - the culmination of an age long struggle between Christianity and Islam for control of the Eastern...
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The Roman Secret Service
30 November 2023When you think of spies, images of suave men in suits sipping martinis tend to come to mind - not, well, the Romans. But espionage has been used...
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The Mummy's Curse, Nazi Gold Train & Other History Mysteries
30 November 2023History is full of the weird and wonderful and in this episode Dan is joined by polymath, author and fellow podcaster Dan Schreiber to talk about...
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Amelia Dyer: Victorian Baby Farm Killer
29 November 2023Some estimates have it that Amelia Dyer killed more than 400 babies. It's hard to say for sure because so few victims were recovered. She was a...
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The 'Elgin' Marbles
29 November 2023The permanent home of the Parthenon Marbles, also known as the 'Elgin' Marbles, has been the subject of a heated, decades-long debate. That debate...
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JFK Special 3. | The Sex Life of JFK
28 November 2023“If I don’t have a woman for three days, I get terrible headaches.”
That is what JFK allegedly told the UK prime minister, Harold...
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Hades: King of the Underworld
28 November 2023This episode contains references to death and sexual assault.
Hades is King of the the dead and the Underworld in Ancient Greek...
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President William Henry Harrison: 32 Days in Office
27 November 2023The ninth President of the United States holds two unique records. William Henry Harrison delivered the longest inaugural address in US...
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