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300 Years of British Prime Ministers Part 2
12 August 20222/2. It's a big summer for British politics with Boris Johnson's resignation and the race between conservative hopefuls Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss...
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Escaping the Blitz: A WW2 Evacuee Remembers
12 August 2022Today's guest Kitty Baxter was aged just nine when World War II broke out in 1939. One of five children born to a road sweeper and a cleaner,...
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Rasputin: Myth & Manhood
12 August 2022Was Rasputin really Russia’s greatest love machine? Did he have any healing powers? And why might his penis be pickling in a jar?
In this...
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The Witches of Warboys: England's Most Famous Witch Trial
11 August 2022The Cambridgeshire village of Warboys was the scene of one of the most famous English witch trials of the sixteenth century. There, the privileged...
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The Oracle of Delphi
11 August 2022"If Croesus goes to war he will destroy a great empire." That was the prophecy the Oracle of Delphi delivered to the Lydian King - she just...
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300 Years of British Prime Ministers Part 1
10 August 20221/2. It's a big summer for British politics with Boris Johnson's resignation and the race between conservative hopefuls Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss...
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Pyramids
10 August 2022The Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest building in the world for nearly four thousand years…until it was beaten by Lincoln...
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Unrest in Parliament: The Hot Summer of 1911
9 August 2022The summer of 1911 was a hot one. Massive strikes took place across the country, including seamen, railwaymen, coal miners, women working in food...
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What the Romans Did for Us
9 August 2022Early Medieval Britain was more Roman than we think. The Roman Empire left vast infrastructural resources, not least roads, walls and bridges. Why...
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41:31
Female Pirates
9 August 2022Yo ho ho, a pirate’s life for me - but what is a pirate’s life, and what was it like for women?
This is the story of Anne Bonny and Mary...
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The Origins of Rome
8 August 2022Known as the Eternal City, ancient Rome was one of the greatest civilisations in human history, but how did it come about?
With a turbulent...
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Paul Revere
8 August 2022His name has inspired poems, novels, songs… Paul Revere remains forever attached to his greatest accomplishment : his "Midnight Ride" on April...
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