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The Unheard Tapes of Bomber Command
4 September 2021Over 55,500 men died flying with Bomber Command during World War Two; more than the number who serve in the Royal Air Force today. Flying at night...
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How To Save Medieval Churches
4 September 2021With Christianity dominating Europe, the Church became one of the most powerful institutions in Britain during the Medieval period and its places of...
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53:11
The Start of WWII
3 September 2021On September 1 1939 Nazi Germany invaded Poland followed two days later by France and the United Kingdom declaring war on Germany and beginning the...
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Before 9/11: The Day Wall Street Exploded
3 September 2021At lunchtime on 16 September 1920, a horse drawn cart exploded on the busiest corner of the Financial District of New York. To find out more about...
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Tudors in Love
2 September 2021The dramas of courtly love have captivated readers and dreamers for centuries. Yet they’re often dismissed as something that existed only in the...
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Digging Medieval Battlefields
2 September 2021How different is battlefield archaeology compared to other disciplines? Do local legends ever help track down evidence in a field? And why are potato...
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52:06
Roman Camps in Britain
2 September 2021When one mentions Roman military installations you would be forgiven for instantly thinking of their forts, the remains of which we can see today...
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Are Mandatory Vaccines New?
1 September 2021Vaccines have become a subject of great controversy in recent months but the requirement to have them is far from new. Almost since the earliest...
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The Boy Who Followed His Father to Auschwitz
1 September 2021In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was arrested by the Nazis. Along with his sixteen-year-old son Fritz, he was sent to...
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John Simpson: Six Decades of Warzones
31 August 2021Over 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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Harald Bluetooth
31 August 2021Many of us use Bluetooth technology every day, but know nothing or little of its namesake. And there is little to be known of the King of Denmark...
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Accused of Witchcraft
30 August 2021Not all suspicions of witchcraft led to a formal accusation, and not all such accusations led to trials and execution. During the entire...
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