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Moscow 1941: Hitler's Nemesis with Jonathan Dimbleby
25 May 2022While the Allies reeled from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour and Hitler's declaration of war on the United States, a ferocious battle was...
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33:25
The Telescope
25 May 2022The telescope marked, arguably, the first invention to truly transform a human sense. For the first time it allowed our eyes to observe the...
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31:38
Our Obsession with Nostalgia
24 May 2022Longing 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...
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50:51
Vasectomy
24 May 2022What do you think of when you think of birth control? Is it condoms, IUDs, the pill? What about vasectomies?
From monkey testicles to...
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32:01
Trade After the Roman Empire
24 May 2022Rivers, Silk roads and camels - how did international trade adapt and survive beyond the Roman Empire into the middle ages? In today's episode Cat...
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24:59
How Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt Divided Berlin
23 May 2022Berlin’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...
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36:05
Religious Exiles in Early Modern Europe
23 May 2022Facing persecution in Elizabethan England, some Catholics chose exile over conformity. Some even cast their lot with foreign monarchs rather than...
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37:29
Killer Robots: AI at War
23 May 2022What if we could take people completely out of the equation when planning military strikes? ‘Lethal autonomous weapons systems’ use...
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32:57
Putin's Rise to Power
22 May 2022Catherine Belton joins Dan on the podcast to discuss the remarkable story of Vladimir Putin's rise to power. After working from 2007-2013 as the...
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52:48
Iron Age Wales: Before the Romans
22 May 2022The residents of Britain during the Iron Age are often collectively called 'Celts'. However, both before and during the Roman occupation, this...
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UFOs
22 May 2022Is it a bird? Is it a plane? A UFO maybe? Or is it some reflective Lichen? Where does the idea of an Unidentified Flying Object come from and are...
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The Wars of the Roses: Endings
21 May 2022All things must end. This final special episode on the Wars of the Roses deals with a series of endings and considers what finding a date for the...
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