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The Pioneers of Egyptology
18 November 2020Chris Naunton joined me on the podcast to talk about the work of the many people who contributed to our understanding of ancient...
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The Most Hated Man in British History?
18 November 2020Sir Douglas Haig was a British commander during the Battle of the Somme, the Battle of Arras, the Battle of Passchendaele, the German Spring...
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How Deep History Swung the US Election
17 November 2020Lewis Dartnell joined me on the podcast to talk about a theory that links the outcome of the US election to geology.
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I’m a Celeb Special: Gwrych Castle
16 November 2020Gwrych Castle dominates the road into North Wales. A sprawling Victorian ruin on land that belonged to the same family for over 500 years. It is now...
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Suicide at the Fall of Nazi Germany
16 November 2020There is almost no end to the dark secrets that emerge from the smashed ruins of 1945 Europe. Dr Florian Huber has spent years researching the...
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SAS: Band of Brothers
15 November 2020June 1944: the SAS parachute deep into occupied France, to wreak havoc and bloody mayhem. In a country crawling with the enemy, their mission is...
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Terror in the Teutoburg Forest
15 November 2020Its been used for nationalist propaganda across the ages and its just been dramatised for Netflix, but what do we actually know about the Battle...
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Coventry's Blitz
14 November 2020David McGrory joined me on the podcast to discuss Coventry’s Blitz. On the night of 14 November 1940, a Luftwaffe air raid devastated the city...
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The History of Beer with Pete Brown
13 November 2020Pete Brown used to advertise lager for a living, until he realised that writing books about beer was even more fun, and entailed drinking even...
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One Family, 600 Years of Farming in England's Lake District
12 November 2020James Rebanks joined me on the podcast to tell the history of his family farm in the Lake District hills. This was part of an ancient agricultural...
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Agrippa and Augustus: The Golden Age
12 November 2020The Romans, an ancient conquering civilisation with an empire that spread from Europe across the Balkans to the Middle East and North Africa. For...
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The Unknown Warrior
11 November 2020100 years ago today, the Unknown Warrior, a common soldier and an unidentified casualty of war, was buried in Westminster Abbey with all the pomp...
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