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The Real King Arthur: Ambrosius Aurelianus
29 September 2022A friend of Merlin, the husband of Guinevere, and the inspiration for numerous Hollywood blockbusters - the story of King Arthur is known by many...
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26:25
Remembering Hilary Mantel
29 September 2022Dame Hilary Mantel died on 22 September 2022 at the age of 70. Her acclaimed Wolf Hall trilogy - which brought the life of Thomas Cromwell so...
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31:15
The Atomic Bomb & the Secret City
28 September 2022In 1939 Franklin D Roosevelt received a letter from Albert Einstein, warning him that the Nazis might be developing nuclear...
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40:44
Space Food
28 September 2022If humans travel to Mars then by the time they come home all the food they eat will be five years old. Want a bite?
Food often gets...
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23:43
What Could Labour Learn From Harold Wilson?
27 September 2022In the week of the Labour Party when polls indicate that the party is likely to form the next government, it seems an opportune moment to examine...
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48:24
Private Members’ Clubs
27 September 2022Private Members’ Clubs are often the location of suspected scandal - from Oscar Wilde to Chris Pincher, what happens behind these elitist...
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30:31
King Cnut & the End of the Viking Age
27 September 2022Dr. Cat Jarman concludes her month-long series about her favourite, specialist subject - the Vikings.
Cnut the Great became King of England...
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21:03
A Short History of the Bank of England
26 September 2022As the UK's bond market has suffered its biggest fall in decades and the pound has reached its lowest ever price against the US dollar, Dan talks...
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29:00
Hollywood Blacklist
26 September 2022After World War 2 ended, the Nazis defeated, America feared communist infiltration of its institutions, among them, Hollywood.
In November...
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48:21
War Crimes
26 September 2022Warning: This episode contains content that some listeners may find upsetting
No matter the war being fought, it's a sad fact that war...
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43:32
The Sinking of the Mary Rose
26 September 2022Exactly forty years ago, in a groundbreaking and spectacular piece of marine conservation that captured the imagination of the world, the Mary...
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38:50
Agatha Christie with Lucy Worsley
25 September 2022Agatha Christie is the best-selling fiction writer of all time and her many detective novels, short stories and plays have gripped and entertained...
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