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The Tragedy of USS Indianapolis
30 July 2020Just after midnight on 30th 1945, the USS Indianapolis was sailing alone in the Philippine Sea when she was struck by two Japanese torpedoes,...
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Rape as a Weapon of War
29 July 2020Christina Lamb is Chief Foreign Correspondent at The Sunday Times and one of Britain’s leading foreign journalists. As well as working in combat...
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How and Why History: Charlemagne
28 July 2020Charlemagne was one of history’s most ruthless and ambitious warriors – King of the Franks, then King of the Lombards, conqueror of the Saxons,...
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Churchill's Speeches
27 July 2020"Their finest hour", "we shall fight on the beaches", "never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few". These words of...
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Saudi Arabia and Iran
26 July 2020Kim Ghattas joined me on the podcast to explore how Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran - who were once allies and the twin pillars of US strategy in...
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Agrippina the Younger
26 July 2020Agrippina the Younger (AD 15 - 59) was one of the most prominent women in the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Born during a time of radical political...
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Monarchy
25 July 2020For hundreds of years, monarchy has reigned as the dominant political model in Europe. But how has this system - where political life was shaped...
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SS Great Britain
24 July 2020SS Great Britain was the longest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1854, and now resides in Bristol as a museum. She was the brainchild of...
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How Did Hitler Seize Supreme Power?
23 July 2020I was delighted to be joined by Nicholas O'Shaughnessy, who took me through the remarkable rise of Adolf Hitler. Starting with his experience of...
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Transforming Our Understanding of The Battle of Kursk
22 July 2020The Battle of Prokhorovka was one of the largest tank battles in military history. Taking place on the Eastern Front, it was fought on 12 July...
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How and Why History: The Genius of Shakespeare
21 July 2020Arguably the world’s greatest ever dramatist, after five and a half centuries William Shakespeare remains as popular as ever. But how did he...
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How Democracy Dies
20 July 2020I was thrilled to be joined on the podcast by the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, Anne Applebaum. Anne's written extensively on...
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