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Stalin's Secret Operation: The Katyn Massacre
29 April 2022As the reality of atrocities in Ukraine continues to be uncovered, we look back at a massacre of Polish officers in the Second World War, the...
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44:35
Shoes
29 April 2022I’m something that you wear, I always come in twos, I get put on your feet. I’m not socks, I am … SHOES.
Humans have been protecting...
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28:01
Theodore Roosevelt
28 April 2022Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 - January 6, 1919), was an American politician, conservationist and writer. After the assassination of...
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Suleyman the Magnificent
28 April 2022The Ottoman Sultan Suleyman I - known as "Suleyman the Magnificent" in the West - was the most feared and powerful man of the sixteenth century....
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Superfood Myths with Kate Quilton
28 April 2022Kale, Cod-liver oil, Goji-berries, Chia seeds...the list of so-called superfoods continues to grow. But how healthy are these wonder ingredients,...
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An Ancient Guide to Healthy Living
28 April 2022Poetry, parables, and produce - how did someone live a healthy life in the ancient Greco-Roman world? Tristan is joined by author Mark Usher to...
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24:18
War in Space
27 April 2022On November 15 2021 Russia tested an anti-satellite weapon, shattering one of their own satellites into over a thousand pieces. This space debris...
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John Simpson: Six Decades of Warzones
27 April 2022Over six decades John Simpson has been on the frontline of reporting bringing news from some of the most dangerous places on the planet to the...
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Wheeled Suitcase
27 April 2022We put man on the moon before we invented the wheeled suitcase.
Why did it take so long?
Find out in todays episode with...
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28:47
Gossip, Scandal and High Society
26 April 2022Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, Henry ‘Chips’ Channon documented British high society in eye-watering detail. His diaries...
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The Dynasty that Transformed Southern India
26 April 2022Histories of India usually concern themselves with events and invasions in the subcontinent’s North, while the rest of India’s rich story is...
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Boob Jobs
26 April 2022Who had the very first boob job? Why were women injecting liquid paraffin into their chests? And, how has the procedure developed over...
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