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Napoleon's Greatest Battles with Ridley Scott
14 November 2023Napoleon Bonaparte is one of the most accomplished military commanders in world history. He rose to become Emperor of the French after a series of...
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Burma: Medieval Superpower
13 November 2023Burma – now Myanmar – was once a superpower playing a pivotal role at the crossroads of Asia. Located in one of the richest areas on the...
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The Gettysburg Address
13 November 2023What makes the Gettysburg Address one of the most famous speeches in history? Did Lincoln really write it on the train? How did the audience...
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JFK Special 2. | The Kennedy Sister They Tried To Hide
13 November 2023This November marks 60 years since President John F Kennedy was assassinated.
His name is associated with history defining events, but...
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Henry VIII: What You Really Need to Know
13 November 2023The truth about Henry VIII may surprise you. This second episode of Not Just the Tudors' Tudor Dynasty mini-series provides you, in a...
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The Man Who Hanged Nazis: Albert Pierrepoint
13 November 2023For Albert Pierrepoint, execution was a family affair. His father and uncle were hangmen and from the 1940s until the late 1950s Albert was...
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Who was Al-Jahiz?
13 November 2023In a time bound by rigid social and class divides, knowledge and the pursuit thereof often bridged the gap between lowly beginnings and a prolific...
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Remembrance Day: Searching for My Father the WWII Pilot
13 November 2023John Watts never knew his father. He was conceived days before his father, Wing Commander Joseph Watts, was killed on a bombing mission over...
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Persephone: Queen of the Underworld
11 November 2023This episode contains references to death and sexual assault.
Persephone is Queen of the Underworld in Ancient Greek...
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Love, Lust & Fighting in World War II
10 November 2023It can be hard to comprehend the magnitude of historical events, with World War Two a prime example of this.
By 1945, some 3 million British...
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President Martin Van Buren
9 November 2023The 'Little Magician', the 'Sly Fox' or - to our expert guest - a 6.5/10 president. We're onto President number 8, Martin Van Buren.
Don is...
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Ghost Fetishes: From Ancient World to Victorians
9 November 2023What is spectrophilia? Well, it's a fetish for ghosts (as well as mirrors), so being turned on by anything lurking in the non-physical realm. What...
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