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Pearl Harbor
8 December 2022On the morning of 7th December 1941, hundreds of Japanese planes took off from aircraft carriers and attacked Pearl Harbor, on Oahu island,...
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Carausius: The Pirate King
8 December 2022With ancient Rome often being viewed as a mighty, impenetrable empire - it seems unlikely that one man, let alone a pirate, could ever bring this...
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Mary, Queen of Scots: The Material Evidence
8 December 2022Mary, Queen of Scots wore red at her execution as a symbol of Catholic martyrdom. It was the climax of a life throughout which Mary used...
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Zeus: King of the Gods
8 December 2022Zeus, the chief deity in Greek mythology, is the Olympian god of sky and thunder and is king of all other gods and men.
His tale is one of...
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Chickens
7 December 2022Why did the chicken cross the road? What came first, the chicken or the egg? Who invented the chicken anyway?
We answer at least one of...
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SAS Rogue Heroes: Paddy Mayne with Ben Macintyre
7 December 2022Lieutenant-Colonel 'Paddy' Mayne is a legendary figure in the history of the British Special Forces. Valiant but volatile, confident yet...
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Cult of St. Swithun
6 December 2022According to tradition, if it rains on Saint Swithun's bridge in Winchester on St. Swithun’s day — 15 July — it will continue for 40...
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Banned History
6 December 2022How much did Britain and its allies know about the Holocaust? Could the Bengal Famine of 1943 have been helped? And was Elizabeth I really the...
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The Rise of China
6 December 2022How has China become the economic superpower that it is today? The decades since the death of Chairman Mao Zedong have seen an unprecedented...
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40:04
Start of the Space Race
5 December 2022Space historian Jay Gallentine tells Don how World War 2 weapons paved the way for space rockets, igniting a space race between the USA and the...
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Making Babies in the 17th Century
5 December 2022Making babies was a mysterious process for people in early modern England. Their ideas about conception, pregnancy and childbirth tell us much...
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1st Parachute Regiment of WW2 with Mark Urban
5 December 20222022 marks 80 years since the Red Devils first remarkable campaign in North Africa. In Britain, they were known as the parachute regiment,...
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