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Sex & Shopping
22 July 2022From facilitating affairs to public facilities, how has shopping changed our lives?
And where did the one-stop shop, the palace of splendour...
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44:51
Waterloo Uncovered: Bones from the Battlefield
22 July 2022In a special episode from our sister podcast Warfare, Dan is joined by host James Rogers fresh off the Waterloo battlefield in Belgium where last...
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44:33
The Origins of Rome
21 July 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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41:40
The Venetian Inquisition
21 July 2022From the sixteenth century through to the end of the eighteenth century, the Venetian government and the Roman Catholic Church jointly established...
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28:36
The Apollo Programme with Kevin Fong
20 July 2022Getting to the moon was no easy feat, no matter how confident President Kennedy may have sounded in his famous 1961 speech. NASA built a team from...
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29:35
Baby Formula
20 July 2022The United States has been suffering from a baby formula shortage for months now. It’s shown how reliant we are on this one commodity. People...
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Hatshepsut: The Temple of Egypt's Female Pharaoh
19 July 2022On the West Bank of the Nile in Luxor, Egypt sits a temple considered to be one of the great architectural wonders of ancient Egypt. The memorial...
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30:13
How Trees Gave Places Their Names
19 July 2022Trees have been universally important to humanity throughout history - not only as the source of fruits and nuts, but also wood for tools, weapons...
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54:14
Abortion in the US
19 July 2022In this episode we are looking into the first time abortion was made illegal in the US. This is the first of a special two-part series looking at...
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26:13
Formidable Heroines of History
18 July 2022From the notorious thief Mary Frith in the seventeenth century to industrialist and LGBT trailblazer Anne Lister in the nineteenth, these heroines...
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17:18
Marquis de Sade
18 July 2022Writer and philosopher, the Marquis de Sade is a very controversial figure because of its texts, where erotism and pornography had an important...
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40:54
The Real Bin Laden
18 July 202218 minutes. That's how much extra time the US Navy Seals had during their raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. In that time...
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