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How to Survive Plague and War in the Middle Ages
25 July 2023Throughout history, there have been plenty of hugely destructive, catastrophic moments. And yet somehow the human race managed to live on until...
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41:53
Barbie: Feminist Icon?
25 July 2023Barbie is many things: an astronaut, a robotics engineers, a judge, and now a movie star! But can she be considered a feminist...
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44:24
Warrior Women: Boudicca to Ukrainian Snipers
24 July 2023From Boudicca to Ukrainian snipers, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of women.
Today Kate is joined Betwixt the Sheets...
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31:54
Barbie: German Sex Doll to American Icon
24 July 2023She's an icon, a polymath, a fashionista, and she's absolutely everywhere right now.
Where did Barbie come from? What has she represented to...
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54:28
The Reformation: What Catholics & Protestants Believed
24 July 2023In the sixteenth century, religious beliefs underwent a dramatic change. As differences between the late medieval Roman Catholic Church and the...
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43:44
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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28:55
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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47:54
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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34:18
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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47:17
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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34:36
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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