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Oscar Wilde's Very Victorian Scandal
15 December 2025In 1895, the world witnessed its first true celebrity trial when Oscar Wilde was charged with “Gross Indecency". To tell the powerful story of...
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Stegosaurus: Titan of the Jurassic
14 December 2025Few dinosaurs are as instantly recognisable as the plated titan Stegosaurus - it's the Jurassic giant with a brain the size of a walnut and a tail...
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Inside the Royal Harems of the Ottoman Empire
12 December 2025You can't move for people talking about the Roman Empire or the British Empire, but what about the Ottoman Empire?
It spanned a huge period...
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Norwich Castle
12 December 2025Medieval Norwich comes alive as Matt Lewis and Dr. Eleanor Janega visit Norwich Castle, once a hulking Norman fortress, royal palace and later a...
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What Was The Ghost Dance?
11 December 2025Reunion with the dead. The return of lands, food supplies and buffalo. The disappearance of white settlers.
By the end of the 19th Century,...
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Elizabeth Boleyn: The Queen's Mother
11 December 2025What if the most powerful woman in Anne Boleyn’s story never spoke on the record? Elizabeth Boleyn steps out of the shadows in this revelatory...
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Does Every Family Hold A Dark Past?
11 December 2025Maddy and Anthony dig into their own family history in collaboration with Ancestry! They find stories from the darker side of the past in their...
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Rise of King Herod
11 December 2025He’s the villain of the Nativity. An alleged killer of innocents, remembered as one of history’s great monsters. But the truth about Herod the...
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How America Invaded Canada
11 December 2025Dan narrates the remarkable story of how George Washington's newly established Continental Army tried to conquer Canada in the brutal winter of...
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The Mother of All Tudors: Child Bride to Kingmaker
9 December 2025Ever heard of Margaret Beaufort? Probably not. But whilst her name has been overshadowed by those of her son, grandson and great-grandchildren,...
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St. Francis & the First Nativity Play
9 December 2025Christmas would not be complete without a nativity play: Baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph, all watched over by an ox, a donkey and assorted bystanders...
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The German Spies at Pearl Harbor
8 December 2025What would you do if you discovered that members of your family had spied for the Japanese at Pearl Harbor? When this happened to Christine Kuehn,...
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