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McDonald's: Roadside Stand to Worldwide Brand
25 June 2023Every second McDonald’s sells 75 hamburgers. It serves 70 million customers each day (more than the population of the UK). All this began at a...
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39:05
WW2: Forgotten Mission of the 6888th Battalion
23 June 2023This episode contains references to highly offensive racist language and events.
In February 1945, with the war in Europe still raging,...
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51:13
Ragnar Lothbrok: The Viking Legend
23 June 2023The ninth century Danish king and warrior Ragnar Lothbrok became notorious again most recently through the TV series The Vikings. But what do we...
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44:36
History of Camp: From Oscar Wilde to James Bond
23 June 2023As the old adage goes, attitude is everything. And if there’s one attitude that stands proud above the rest it’s the utterly fabulous,...
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The CIA & MI6: The Real Special Relationship?
22 June 2023Behind the handshakes of leading politicians, beyond the trade deals and beneath mutually beneficial military deals, how has the 'special...
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56:10
Shakespeare's London: Going to the Theatre
22 June 2023In this third special episode of Not Just the Tudors celebrating the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio,...
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Origins of Water
22 June 2023When you envision what Earth was like 4.5 billion years ago, shortly after its creation, images of dust-filled air and raging volcanoes tend to...
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30:58
The Windrush Generation & Scandal
21 June 2023The journey of the Empire Windrush that docked in Essex with 1,027 passengers & at least two stowaways on 22nd June 1948 has come to define a...
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35:53
Kitchens
21 June 2023Who invented the Kitchen? It might seem silly to ask that but there is in fact one kitchen that people point to as the mother-of-all-kitchens. It...
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17:42
The Titanic Wreck
20 June 2023In 1912 Titanic departed on her first and last voyage from Southampton, sinking over 2 miles to the bottom of the dark North Atlantic Ocean,...
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Dick Pics: The History
20 June 2023Depictions of dicks have been an obsession in art for as long as art has been around, but the act of sending a real life image of ones penis is a...
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37:54
The Crusades and Ireland
20 June 2023Ireland has long been overlooked in the context of crusading. It has not only been largely absent from accounts of crusades and crusading, it has...
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