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Chairman Mao
24 July 2023Leader of the Chinese Communist Party from 1949 until his death in 1976, Chairman Mao reshaped the nation's course of history, founding the...
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Nazi's Most Wanted: Assassin Hannie Schaft
23 July 2023Known among the Nazis as "the girl with the red hair," Hannie Schaft was a resistance fighter so deadly that Adolf Hitler personally ordered her...
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Stonehenge
23 July 2023Stonehenge. The most iconic prehistoric monument in the world. And yet its story is still so enigmatic.
In this episode, host Tristan Hughes...
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Chewing Gum: From the Aztecs to Avocados
23 July 2023Spearmint, peppermint, double-bubble. You may think that chewing gum is a modern invention, when in fact we've been chewing the stuff since the...
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Scottish Kings' Sex Lives
21 July 2023One thing royal families strive for is the common touch. Whilst some have struggled with it, King James IV and V in the 15th and 16th centuries...
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Lost Vikings of Greenland
21 July 2023Is there a lost colony of Vikings somewhere in Greenland, shut off from the rest of the world? For hundreds of years, that question has taxed...
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Oppenheimer
21 July 2023Often referred to as the father of the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer's work in the field of theoretical physics changed the world as we knew...
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The Origins of Mormonism
20 July 2023The Church of the Latter Day Saints is one shrouded in mystery, whispers of polygamy and is often synonymous with Salt Lake City. But where did...
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Ivan the Terrible
20 July 2023The name Ivan the Terrible is synonymous with brutality and ruthlessness. While Western scholars insist that the first crowned Tsar of all Russia...
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51:46
Homo Naledi: The First Burials?
20 July 2023Uncovered a decade ago in the Rising Star Cave system in South Africa, Homo Naledi's discovery has impacted paleoanthropology in ways nobody could...
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Oppenheimer
19 July 2023On a summer morning in 1945, a device known simply as 'Gadget' was detonated. An enormous explosion tore a crater into the New Mexico desert,...
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Karaoke: The History
19 July 2023When you think about it, the Karaoke machine is a simple invention. Basically two existing inventions, the tape deck and the microphone, were...
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