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Dura-Europos: The Syrian Pompeii
29 November 2020When we think of Pompeii, we remember the city which became frozen in time after a natural catastrophe. Well, in 1920, exactly 100 years ago,...
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Pompeii and the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
28 November 2020Pompeii is back in the news. An extraordinary new, touching discovery, found during the Great Pompeii Project of Professor Massimo Osanna and his...
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Elizabeth I with Helen Castor
27 November 2020Dan talks to Helen Castor about her book on Elizabeth I and the way she governed.
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Battle of Britain
27 November 2020In a moment of great danger to national survival, the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large scale attacks by the Luftwaffe. So...
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Pompeii and the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
26 November 2020Pompeii is back in the news. An extraordinary new, touching discovery, found during the Great Pompeii Project of Professor Massimo Osanna and his...
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27:01
The First Thanksgiving
26 November 2020Sarah Churchwell and Kathryn Gray joined me on the podcast to discuss the first Thanksgiving of 1621. They critique mythologies of Thanksgiving...
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23:43
Rebel Women
25 November 2020Sarah Lonsdale joined me on the podcast to tell the stories of radical women who challenged the status quo in the interwar years.
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30:10
French Defeat in WW2
25 November 2020It's the common recollection of French efforts to repel German invasion. But with 100,000 troops lost in the Battle of France, how true is the...
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21:07
Food, Class and Baking
24 November 2020Pen Vogler joined me on the pod to discuss the origins of our eating habits and reveals how they are loaded with centuries of class...
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Vaccine Roll Outs: Tragedy and Triumph
23 November 2020Paul Offit is on the US Food and Drug Administration's advisory panel on vaccines. He talked Dan through the history of massive public vaccination...
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Aftermath of WW1
23 November 2020The crucible of our modern world is commonly thought to be the 1960s, but Charles Emmerson thinks that it could be argued to have been the tumultuous...
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In Conversation with Astronaut Al Worden
22 November 2020Al Worden was an American astronaut and engineer who was the Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 15 lunar mission in 1971. He is one of only 24...
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