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Lessons from the Civil War
5 January 2023Gone with the Wind, released in 1939, is the highest-grossing film of all time. Based on Margaret Mitchell's novel published a few years earlier,...
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33:50
The First Writing
5 January 2023The results of a groundbreaking new study were released today [January 5th] by a group of researchers who believe they have conclusively decoded...
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44:54
Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu
5 January 2023The Three Musketeers paints a picture of King Louis XIII of France as a rather weak monarch controlled by his powerful chief minister...
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25:46
Warrior Queens & Revolutionaries
5 January 2023The first author in history, the inventor of the dishwasher and the lawyer who refused to be kicked out of the room the Oxford law school; when it...
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27:34
Open Plan Office
4 January 2023The Open Plan Office. A little bit of you might die inside every time you hear those words. But we promise you the history of how they came to be...
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21:12
Harry Houdini
4 January 2023Harry Houdini is perhaps the most famous entertainer to have ever lived. He wowed his audiences with sensational feats of physical endurance and...
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38:34
Vikings in Poland
3 January 2023Poland is not normally thought of as an important part of the Viking world. But as a key geographical location on the Baltic Sea, it was in fact a...
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20:21
Birdwatching: How Four Prisoners of War Survived Captivity
3 January 2023This episode tells the incredible story of four Second World War British POWs who overcame the trials and tribulations of internment through a...
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30:00
Life in Hitler's Germany
2 January 2023A warning that this episode contains descriptions of genocide and terms for groups which were classified that way at the time.
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28:16
Birth of the Gregorian calendar
2 January 2023Many of us are seeing in a new year, but of course there are, even today, several different ways of marking dates and years in various parts of...
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18:07
Budapest: Between East and West
2 January 2023Almost at the centre of Europe, Budapest, is at the crossroads of geographical regions and of civilizations, at the intersection of ancient trade...
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The World's Biggest Nuclear Bomb
30 December 2022In the early hours of 30 October 1961, a bomber took off from an airstrip in northern Russia and began its flight through cloudy skies over...
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