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WW1: Airpower Over Gallipoli
7 March 2022Located in the southern part of East Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with the elongated embayment of the Aegean Sea to the west and the...
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Escape From a Nazi Concentration Camp
7 March 2022In April 1945, weeks before the Nazi defeat, nine women made a last-ditch escape from the concentration camp at Ravensbruck. The group, who had...
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The Assassination of Julius Caesar: Explained
6 March 2022March 15th 44BC is perhaps the most notorious date in all of ancient history. On that fateful day, the Ides of March, 55-year-old Roman dictator...
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Yellowstone: The World's First National Park
6 March 2022This year is the 150th anniversary of the world's first national park of its kind, Yellowstone. Each year nearly four million people visit the...
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The Origins of Kyiv
5 March 202224th of February 2022 marked the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This episode of Gone Medieval looks at the origins of its capital...
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Fighting For Another Country
4 March 2022In February 2022, UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss voiced her support for those individuals who wanted to travel to Ukraine to help, what she...
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Edward VI: The Last Boy King
4 March 2022Edward VI, son of Henry VIII, became king at the age of nine. All around him loomed powerful men who hoped to use him to further their own ends....
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How the Tudors Told Time
3 March 2022How time passes - or how it is understood to pass - itself has a fascinating history. For the Tudors, the uneven hours of the Medieval reckoning...
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The Origins of Ukraine
3 March 2022It's not often we cover current affairs on The Ancients (the clue is in the name), but in light of Putin’s claims that Ukraine was “entirely...
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Wellbeing in Nature with Jake Humphrey
3 March 2022Podcaster, presenter and bestselling author, Jake Humphrey, is On Jimmy’s Farm today.
Jake talks to Jimmy about how the natural world has...
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The Guinea Pig Club: Plastic Surgery & WW2
2 March 2022Of all the clubs in the world, perhaps the most extraordinary is the Guinea Pig Club, a group of Second World War veterans that suffered terrible...
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ENDURANCE22: Onto the Ice
2 March 2022On today's episode, Dan takes the podcast out onto the Antarctic ice to find penguins, seals and the expedition scientists conducting experiments....
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