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Arnold Schwarzenegger on Churchill's Birthday
30 November 2021Actor and former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger joins Dan in conversation on today's podcast about Winston Churchill, who was born on...
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Ibn Fadlan: The Real 13th Warrior
30 November 2021Ibn Fadlan might be familiar to many based on modern-day renditions from films such as The 13th Warrior. Ibn Traveled from Bagdad to Russia,...
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How Powerful was Henry VIII?
29 November 2021Was Henry VIII as all-powerful and tyrannical as we have come to believe? Is the scheming of Thomas Cromwell portrayed in Wolf Hall close to the...
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Battle of Austerlitz: Napoleon's Greatest Victory
29 November 20212 December is a special date for those fascinated by Napoleon Bonaparte. Not only is this the date he crowned himself Emperor of France in 1804,...
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Winston Churchill
29 November 2021Winston Churchill was many things a writer, politician, journalist, painter but the defining aspect of his career was as a war leader. Warfare...
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Vindolanda's 2021 Excavation
28 November 2021Situated roughly one mile south of Hadrian’s Wall is one of the great jewels of Roman and early medieval archaeology: Vindolanda. Over the past...
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The Complicated Legacy of F W de Klerk
28 November 2021The result of his complicated legacy, the death of South Africa's last apartheid president, F W de Klerk, on November 11 2021 generated a flood of...
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How To Live Like A Monk
27 November 2021Monks. We know that they dedicated their lives to serving God, but what did it mean to be a Monk? In today's, episode Matt is joined by the...
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The Punjab Soldiers of WWI
26 November 2021About one in six of the men who served in the First World War came from undivided India. However, unlike those who hailed from Britain and the rest...
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The Rise of the Praetorian Guard
26 November 2021From Gladiator to Rome Total War to Star Wars, today the Praetorians are one of the most distinctive military units of Imperial Rome. It was their...
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The First Gun Crime in London
25 November 2021Early in the morning of Sunday 13 November 1536, a London merchant named Robert Pakington was shot dead crossing Cheapside as he walked to...
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Menka: Village of the Breadfruit Goddess
25 November 2021It is one of the most remote ancient sites in the world. Situated on the isolated Micronesian island of Kosrae are the ruins of an ancient...
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