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Capturing Lincoln’s Assassin
1 December 2022On shooting President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth fled Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC on horseback, eventually heading south. But...
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Uruk: The First Cities
1 December 2022A Mesopotamian metropolis that thrived for millennia, Uruk is even claimed by some to have been the first true city in history.
Located in...
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Huygens: Europe’s Greatest Scientist
1 December 2022Christiaan Huygens was the greatest scientist working in the vital period between Galileo and Newton, as the scientific revolution gathered pace....
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A Short History of The World
1 December 2022How can you condense the history of the world into a book? Well-celebrated historian Simon Sebag Montefiore does just that in his new epic. He...
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Croissants
30 November 2022CROISSANTS WEREN’T INVENTED IN FRANCE. Mon dieu! C’est pas vrai!
Today Dallas finds out about the person responsible for bringing the...
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Atlantis: Deciphering The Truth
30 November 2022Atlantis is one of the most compelling legends - an advanced, mythical civilisation, wiped out by an unknown phenomenon. The allure of this...
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Myths and Nature in Medieval Britain
29 November 2022Humanity's relationship with the wilderness has been a theme of myths and legends for thousands of years. Such stories can offer a unique insight...
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover
29 November 2022*This episode contains very strong language and adult content*
A semi autobiographical account from a conflicted man? An ode to a wife’s...
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Owain Glyndwr and The Welsh Revolt
29 November 2022England plays Wales in the World Cup today so it only makes sense that Dan looks back at what's often called Wales' last war of Independence...
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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
28 November 2022On the evening of 14th April, 1865, the Union was celebrating victory in the civil war, won 5 days earlier with General Lee's surrender at...
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WW1 & The Rise of Ghosts
28 November 20228.5 million soldiers died as a result from wounds and disease during the First World War, plunging a society into mourning as loved ones were left...
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Public Executions in London
28 November 2022For at least 700 years, presumed criminals were publicly executed in London. Such occasions were often gruesome, gory and very...
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