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The War in the East: Part 1 with Bill Frankland
19 March 2021In this episode taken from our archive, I talk to Dr Bill Frankland (19 March 1912 – 2 April 2020), a veteran of World War Two who lived through...
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30:28
The American Way of War: A History
19 March 2021From Ancient Greece, through the Enlightenment, the Napoleonic Wars, The First World War, then the Second, and all the way through to modern drone...
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Another History of Ideas with David Runciman
18 March 2021Today, I am joined once again by Professor David Runciman to talk about the second series of his brilliant History of Ideas podcast. The series looks...
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Petra: The Rose City
18 March 2021A city of caves, temples and tombs, Petra gains its nickname from the pink sandstone from which it was carved. In this second part of his...
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24:07
St Patrick's Day
17 March 2021We all have a story about St Patrick's Day and our guest on the podcast today, Adrian Mulligan has a few. Adrian is an Associate Professor of...
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Montgomery: Britain’s Best Known Field Marshall
17 March 2021From fighting on the front line as a Junior Officer in the first days of the First World War, to commanding Allied ground forces on D-Day, the...
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The My Lai Massacre
16 March 2021On the 16th March 1968, the My Lai Massacre occurred in South Vietnam. 350-500 men, women, children and babies were brutally killed by US troops...
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The Ides of March
15 March 2021Today's podcast is an episode taken from our sibling podcast The Ancients. In 4 BC, the Ides of March took on a new significance. Previously...
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The Enigma of Dieppe
15 March 2021Almost 80 years after the raid on Dieppe on 19 August 1942, David O’Keefe has uncovered the secret mission to pinch Enigma related material...
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Written Constitutions with Linda Colley
14 March 2021On the podcast today we have the legendary Linda Colley to talk all about her new book examining the phenomenon of written constitutions. From...
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The Ides of March
14 March 2021In 44 BC, the Ides of March took on a new significance. Previously observed as the first full moon of the new year, the 15 March is today...
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Vikings in America
12 March 2021The Vikings were one of the great exploring peoples of the past. They travelled east along the rivers to the Silk Road, they explored west across the...
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