Podcasts

Death, Dissection & Grave Robbing

Genital warts fashioned into necklaces, teeth harvested from the battlefield and blood vessels eternalised in wax: these are some of the things...

SAS Founder: Warrior or Phoney?

David Stirling was an aristocrat, innovator and special forces legend that earned him the nickname 'The Phantom Major'. His formation of the...

History of the Countryside with Matthew Kelly

The English Countryside. An ever changing environment, or a static, preserved landscape in the service of humanity since the dawn of...

The Man Who Broke Michelangelo's Nose

Pietro Torrigiano is credited with introducing Renaissance art to England in the early years of the 16th century and designed the tomb of Henry...

Greeks vs Romans: Empires at War

Greece and Rome, they are the heavyweights of ancient history. But what happened when they came face to face with one another? Tristan is once...

The Treadmill

Before they found their way into gyms, treadmills had a much darker history. In the 19th Century, they could most commonly be found in...

Moscow 1941: Hitler's Nemesis with Jonathan Dimbleby

While the Allies reeled from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour and Hitler's declaration of war on the United States, a ferocious battle was...

The Telescope

The telescope marked, arguably, the first invention to truly transform a human sense. For the first time it allowed our eyes to observe the...

Our Obsession with Nostalgia

Longing to go back to the 'good old days' is nothing new. For hundreds of years, the British have mourned the loss of older national identities...

Vasectomy

What do you think of when you think of birth control? Is it condoms, IUDs, the pill? What about vasectomies?

From monkey testicles to...

Trade After the Roman Empire

Rivers, Silk roads and camels - how did international trade adapt and survive beyond the Roman Empire into the middle ages? In today's episode Cat...

How Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt Divided Berlin

Berlin’s fate was sealed at the 1945 Yalta Conference: the city, along with the rest of Germany, was to be carved up between the victorious...