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How Islam came to Iran
8 March 2026How did Islam first take root on Iranian soil? What did medieval Iran - or Persia - look like before and afterwards? How do those early...
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The Crusades: Battle for the Holy Land
6 March 2026Today we dive into the Second and Third Crusades with major players Eleanor of Aquitaine, Saladin and the bold entrance of Richard the Lionheart....
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Sex & Scandal in Hollywood’s Golden Age
6 March 2026Over 100 years ago the Hollywood film industry was shiny, new and sexy.
Sex and sexuality was present on screen, but as the 1920s drew to a...
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What Did FDR Get Wrong?
5 March 2026Franklin D Roosevelt is consistently considered one of the United States' best Presidents. Elected four times, he oversaw the end of the Great...
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Henry VII: Reign of Jeopardy
5 March 2026Was Henry Tudor a tyrant obsessed with control, or a visionary who created peace and prosperity? How did a penniless exile with a tenuous claim to...
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The Medieval Murder of Thomas Becket
5 March 2026Anthony is joined by the iconic Eleanor Janega from our sister podcast 'Gone Medieval' to tell the story of the most famous murder of the medieval...
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The Age of Dinosaurs with Henry Gee
5 March 2026Before Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops, Earth was rebuilding from catastrophe. Out of the ashes of the Great Dying rose a new prehistoric world and...
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Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson: A Royal Scandal
5 March 2026In this episode, we explore the dramatic love story between King Edward VIII and the twice-divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson - a romance...
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Who Was The Witch Queen of Scotland?
3 March 2026The 17th century witch trials in Scotland were many and they were brutal.
Amongst the many people tried for being a witch, one woman's...
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The First Crusade: The Road to Jerusalem
3 March 2026In 1095, Pope Urban II’s fiery sermon lit the fuse for a so‑called holy war in the Holy Land. In the first episode of a new series, Dr....
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Life and Death on the Oregon Trail | The Frontier
2 March 2026In the first instalment of our Frontier miniseries, we explore one of the most iconic symbols in American history: the Oregon Trail. For decades,...
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Deadly Queens of Abbasid Baghdad
2 March 2026“Behind every great man is an even greater woman.” During the first century of the Abbasid Caliphate, the caliphs oversaw an Islamic Golden...
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