Podcasts

How to Treat Depression in 17th Century England

To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, Not Just the Tudors casts a 21st century eye over "one of the most perplexing, elusive, attractive, and...

Black Ops: A Life in the CIA

Enrique ‘Ric’ Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the...

VE Day

For most of us, VE Day conjures up black and white images of carefree servicemen and women dancing and beaming in Trafalgar Square, of Churchill...

LSD

How did LSD go from accidental discovery to the counter cultures go to drug?

On April 19th 1943 Albert Hoffman had the first ever LSD trip...

Pandora

According to Greek myth, Pandora was the first human woman - moulded from the earth by Hephaestus on the instruction of Zeus himself.

We've...

The Wars of the Roses: Origins

The Wars of the Roses is a complex and fascinating period of English history that dominates the second half of the 15th century and leads to the...

Declaring The War On Drugs

As the Cold War came to an end, US President George H.W. Bush defined his 1992 election bid in terms of the War on Drugs. It was said that there...

Tudor Sex

WARNING: This episode includes adult themes and explicit words.

Why did Henry VIII want everyone to know about his wet dreams? What animal...

Diving for Lost Slave Shipwrecks

From the 16th to the 19th centuries, European slave traders forcibly uprooted millions of African people and shipped them across the Atlantic in...

Sex & The Tudors

There’s not an infinite number of ways that humans can act on sexual desire. Human bodies haven’t changed, but the cultural landscape around...

Gardening for Mental Health with Sue Stuart-Smith

It’s Mental Health Awareness Week this month, and Jimmy will be joined by a selection of guests who will tell us how nature can have an impact...

The World of Stonehenge

Described as the "most important piece of prehistoric art to be found in Britain in the last 100 years", an elaborately decorated 5000 year-old...