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Top 5 Military Commanders
6 January 2023Napoleon, Alexander the Great, and Boudicca. These are the names that normally top the list when it comes to the greatest military leaders in...
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44:46
Teen Sex
6 January 2023Do you remember the first time you thought about sex? Or the first time you talked to someone else about sex?
In this episode, Kate is...
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34:42
Inside the JFK White House
6 January 2023November 22nd marks 59 years since the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy. One of the most famous assassinations in history, JFK's...
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29:50
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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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.
Personal...
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