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Royal Sex
17 May 2022Why did kings and queens have spectators on their wedding night? Was sex always just for the love of their country and the want of an heir, or...
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30:02
What Did the Anglo-Saxons Eat?
17 May 2022Early medieval royals ate mostly meat, right? Wrong! A new study that’s made headlines around the world has shown that medieval kings were...
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23:59
HMS Black Joke
16 May 2022Please note that this episode contains mentions of racial trauma, slavery and violence.
The most feared ship in Britain’s West Africa...
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27:13
The Aluminium Trail: WW2 Pilots in the Himalayas
16 May 2022Robert ‘Bob’ Binzer wanted to be a pilot from a young age, and during the Second World War he got his wish. Bob was an aviator with the United...
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The English Civil War: Loyalty House
16 May 2022The Civil War was the most traumatic conflict in British history, pitting friends and family members against each other, tearing down the old...
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33:59
The Secret Plot to Kill the Government
15 May 2022On the night of February 23 1820, twenty-five impoverished craftsmen assembled in an obscure stable in Cato Street, London, with a plan to...
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42:58
The Origins of Homo Sapiens
15 May 2022What do we know about the earliest hominins to exist? With a story spanning one million years and counting, we're discovering more about how we...
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38:00
The Bicycle with Tim Harford
15 May 2022Invented in the mid-1800s, bicycles have had enduring popularity. Across cultures, they have been embraced, promising freedom and mobility at a...
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28:57
The Wars of the Roses: Dynastic War
14 May 2022Part one of this comprehensive trilogy covering the Wars of the Roses left the Yorkist lords attained and in exile. From this point, the 15th...
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43:06
Sex Toys
13 May 2022Hidden in bedside tables or proudly displayed on mantelpieces, wherever you keep them (if you do), sex toys have come a long way since the first...
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42:38
Post Traumatic Stress: A History of War Trauma
13 May 2022Whether talking about shell shock, war neurosis, combat trauma or PTSD; the impacts of war zones on those who fight in them or encounter them have...
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32:55
How to Survive in Medieval England
12 May 2022If you travelled back in time to the Medieval period this very second, do you think you would survive? The short answer is probably not. If you...
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