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The Making of 'All Quiet on the Western Front'
6 March 2023All Quiet on the Western Front is the 2022 film adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's famous anti-war novel. Told from the German perspective, it...
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37:48
Keyboards
5 March 2023The keyboard on the first ever commercially successful typewriter and the keyboard on your smartphone are separated by a gulf of time and...
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42:34
Dinosaurs: The Last Days
5 March 2023Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid the size of Mount Everest slammed into our planet, triggering the mass extinction of the dinosaurs and...
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Erotic Medieval Poet: Gwerful Mechain
4 March 2023Wales in the Medieval period had a thriving bardic tradition and one poet is particularly fascinating. Gwerful Mechain lived in the second half of...
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38:23
The History of Periods
3 March 2023‘It’s my time of the month’, ‘the painters are in’, ‘aunt flo is visiting’, or a simple ‘I’m on the rag’
Periods are a...
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1917 Russian Revolution with Antony Beevor
3 March 2023One of the most significant events of the 20th century, the 1917 Russian Revolution saw the overthrow of the Tsar and the birth of a new communist...
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The Last Nuremberg Prosecutor
3 March 2023102 year old Ben Ferencz is the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials and a direct witness to the horrors of the Nazi death camps....
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George III - The Last King of America
2 March 2023George III is forever known as the king who lost the 13 American colonies. In the US he is thought of by many as a tyrant king, taxing and...
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Jews & the Inquisition in Italy
2 March 2023Between 1598 and 1785, the Papal or Roman Inquisition in Modena, Northern Italy, put 393 Jews on trial. Regarded as infidels, Jews were accused...
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The First Humans
2 March 2023Where do humans come from? Or, perhaps more interestingly, who did humans evolve from? A question once posed by the likes of Charles Darwin and...
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Lady Hamilton: Nelson's Mistress
2 March 2023The Kim Kardashian of Georgian England; she was a young housemaid who became one of the most famous socialites in the Western world and stole the...
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Filing Cabinets: How They Changed the World
1 March 2023It’s perhaps the most overlooked invention of all time. Consigned to a forgotten corner in the basement of history. The Filing...
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