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Hammersmith Ghost: How to Murder a Poltergeist
29 October 2023Can it be murder if you think you're killing a ghost? In 1804 the London suburb of Hammersmith was being terrorised by a ghost. One man set out to...
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Josephine Baker: Jazz Age Superstar to WW2 Spy
27 October 2023Josephine Baker was one of the most extraordinary people of the 20th century - and the first black woman honoured in the French Panthéon in...
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38:55
President Andrew Jackson
26 October 2023The seventh person to hold the position of President is arguably one of the most divisive.
A strong-willed military hero, whilst President...
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Hauntings, Hangings & a Beast: Bodmin Jail
26 October 2023Bodmin Jail can claim to be one of the most haunted buildings in Britain. Perhaps that's because of all the hangings that took place here. Or the...
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Black Tudors
26 October 2023The most famous Black African in Tudor England is John Blanke, a musician in the courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII. The discovery of Blanke,...
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38:40
The Sahara: Traders and Travellers
26 October 2023Stretching across from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, Northern Africa is dominated by the Sahara Desert. The largest hot desert in the world,...
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35:50
The Templars in Britain
26 October 2023The Knights Templar have an enduring reputation―but not one they would recognise. Originally established in the twelfth century to protect...
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38:27
History of Asexuality
24 October 2023We live in a hyper-sexualised world. But what if you don't take a sexual interest in anyone?
Asexuality makes up roughly 1% of the...
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38:55
The Real Wild West
23 October 2023Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford, John Wayne. We've seen them roping and wrangling and defeating their enemies, all by the time the credits...
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Who was Al-Mahani?
23 October 2023In medieval Baghdad, there was a particular focus on two elements of knowledge expansion: recording existing principles, and further expanding on...
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Last Witch of Scotland
23 October 2023In 1727, Janet Horne of the Highland community of Dornoch became the last person in Britain to be tried and executed for witchcraft.
As the...
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Kings of Medieval Ethiopia
23 October 2023Overseeing a rich and diverse kingdom, Ethiopia’s medieval monarchs consolidated their power by claiming descent from the Biblical King Solomon....
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