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Caral: Oldest City in the Americas?
16 July 2026Long before the age of the Inca and Maya, a remarkable city once flourished on the coast of modern Peru. Founded more than five thousand years...
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The Real St George and the Dragon
16 July 2026He wasn't an English knight, but actually a Roman soldier, and the dragon didn't appear until centuries later in the medieval period. So what is...
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True Crime: Murder & the Popish Plot
16 July 2026Was a London magistrate, found dead in a ditch in 1678, the victim of a Catholic conspiracy, political convenience, or secrets too dangerous to...
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Would You Rather Be On The Titanic Or In Pompeii?
16 July 2026Sound the trumpets! The day has finally arrived: Maddy Pelling is back on After Dark!
To welcome her back into the coven, we're playing a...
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Sex Work in Soviet Russia
14 July 2026After the Russian Revolution in 1917, sex work was a prime example of what capitalism did to society.
Under communism, sex work would...
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Empress Matilda: Queen of the Romans, Ruler of the English
14 July 2026How did an empress become the most dangerous claimant to the English throne?
From the Battle of Lincoln to her legendary escape from Oxford...
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The Truth about Billy the Kid
13 July 2026We're heading west again, this time looking for Billy the Kid. Who was he? What crimes did he really commit? Is there any chance he survived that...
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Who Lit the French Revolution?
13 July 2026How did a kingdom of palaces, privilege and powdered wigs collapse into revolution? What turned hunger into uprising?
In this first episode...
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The Story of England's First Drag Queen
13 July 2026Born John Cooper, "Princess Seraphina" was one of the first English Drag Queens. Princess Seraphina was an 18th-century gentleman’s servant who...
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53:21
The Real History Behind The Odyssey
13 July 2026Is there any truth in the Odyssey, and what does it all mean? We know it's a story where a man convenes with monsters and gods, ghosts and...
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Odyssey | Cyclops, Circe and Calypso
12 July 2026What if the world’s most famous homecoming was really a nightmare of monsters, gods, and one very stubborn king trying to get back to...
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Staten Island v. New York City | Revisionist History
10 July 2026On the 250th anniversary of the United States, Revisionist History, bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast about things overlooked and...
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