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The Battle of Okinawa
28 April 2021The last major confrontation of the Second World War and the largest amphibious assault of the Pacific theatre, the Battle of Okinawa ended in Allied...
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WW2: The Texel Uprising
28 April 2021In the dying days of the Second World War, a group of Georgians rose up against their German overlords on the Dutch island of Texel. Thousands of...
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Blood and Iron: The German Empire
27 April 2021German unification in 1871 immediately altered the balance of power in Europe and across the world, but what did its existence and expansion in...
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Chernobyl: Memories of a Survivor
26 April 2021On April 26th 1986 reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded sending a vast plume of radioactive material into the atmosphere, but what...
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Secret History of Soviet Nerve Agents
26 April 2021The use of nerve agents is synonymous with Russian espionage for those of us who remember the recent poisonings of Alexei Navalny, Sergei and...
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The Last Nuremberg Prosecutor
25 April 2021Ben Ferencz at 102 years old is the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials and a direct witness to the horrors of the Nazi death camps....
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Cicero’s Fight for the Roman Republic
25 April 2021Caesar Octavian, Mark Antony, Decimus Brutus and Cicero: the Battle of Mutina, April 43 BC, was a clash of giants. It also became the beginning of...
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Cellini: Bad Boy of the Renaissance
24 April 2021Benvenuto Cellini was the bad boy of the Renaissance! His life was a story of murders, violence, war, the sack of cities, sodomy, imprisonment,...
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Football, Money and the European Super League
23 April 2021The attempt to create a new European Super League might have been short-lived with the attempt to form a breakaway competition collapsing in the face...
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WW2: The Last Coastwatcher
23 April 202197 year old Jim Burrows OAM served as a Coastwatcher in the South Pacific during the Second World War. The Coastwatchers were an intelligence arm of...
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Shakespeare's Shoreditch Theatre with Heather Knight
22 April 2021In this archive episode, Dan visits the site of The Theatre, the 16th-century playhouse where some of Shakespeare's works were first performed, to...
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Roman Prisoners of War
22 April 2021We know all about the battles of the Roman Empire: the opposing sides, their weapons and incentives. But if history is written by the winners, what...
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