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Drone Delivery
29 June 2022The drones are coming. In twenty years there’s going to be a hundred times more flying planes, taxis, parcels in the airspace than today thanks...
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The Man Who Escaped Auschwitz
28 June 2022In April 1944 nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba and fellow inmate, Fred Wetzler broke out of Auschwitz. Under electrified fences and past armed...
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Anglo-Saxons at Prayer: Brixworth Church
28 June 2022All Saints’ Church in the village of Brixworth, Northamptonshire is one of the oldest, largest and most complete Anglo-Saxon churches in...
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Beer
28 June 2022Pint, bottle, schooner, tinny … no matter how you drink it, beer is undeniably a part of social life here in Britain and around the...
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The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
27 June 2022Europe in 1914 was a tinderbox of imperial tensions and the spark that would light the conflagration would be the assassination of Archduke Franz...
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42:35
Was Queenship the Same Around the World?
27 June 2022All this month on Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb has been talking to her guests about Queenship. But the focus has...
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33:51
WW2: The White Rose Resistance
27 June 20222022 marks the 80 year anniversary of the White Rose resistance against Nazism. The White Rose was made up of 5 students and an academic in...
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24:49
Cleopatra
26 June 2022Cleopatra VII was part of a dynasty of Macedonian rulers founded by Ptolemy, who served as general under Alexander the Great during his conquest...
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The First Americans
26 June 2022Modern humans thrived in the Americas for thousands of years before the first European colonists arrived, but how and when did they get...
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Warships with Dan Snow
26 June 2022Today we are talking warships: from the revolutionary Tudor ships to modern aircraft carriers, and all the innovations along the...
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Shakespeare's Richard III
25 June 2022Richard III is one of Shakespeare’s most controversial plays, often cited as the basis for the King’s reputation as a scheming murderer. But...
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When the US 'Invaded' Northern Ireland
24 June 2022With 300,000 US troops stationed in Northern Ireland between 1942 and 1945 - Northern Ireland soon became overrun. Known as the 'Friendly...
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