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Inside Concentration Camp Brothels
21 October 2025Even among Holocaust researchers, this subject is taboo. Starting in 1942, the Nazis set up brothels inside some of the camps, not for the guards,...
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46:06
St. Catherine & Autumnal Saints
21 October 2025**This episode contains graphic references to genitalia**
Did you know that the Catherine Wheel firework takes its inspiration from St....
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27:57
What if the Cuban Missile Crisis Sparked WW3?
20 October 2025On October 22 1962, President John F. Kennedy announced that Soviet missiles has been discovered in Cuba. Over the following days, the fate of the...
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48:11
Revolutionary Paris In Assassin's Creed Unity
20 October 2025Assassin’s Creed Unity offers a stunning recreation of 18th century Paris, which in modern times is the home of Ubisoft. How did this setting...
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55:31
How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England
20 October 2025In 16th and 17th century England, the plague and pox, disease and injury were a daily presence. At at time when medicine was a complex interplay...
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34:09
Britain's Coldest Murder Case
20 October 2025Eugene Aram was an 18th century schoolmaster who got away with murder for fourteen years. Then a skeleton was unearthed and a case that had been...
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55:34
Richard II vs Henry IV
19 October 2025Today, we dive into the dramatic tale of two men whose rivalry changed the course of English history. We unravel the complex relationship between...
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Marcus Aurelius: The Philosopher Emperor
19 October 2025He's known as Rome’s philosopher-emperor and faced plague, rebellion and war in the East. Yet Marcus Aurelius ruled with a pen as much as a...
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38:54
Wife-Swapping Magician of the Tudor Court
17 October 2025The 16th century was a dangerous time to be talking about magic and hidden forces, so how did John Dee end up being invited into Elizabeth I's...
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58:12
Ragnarok & The End of the World
17 October 2025It's time. Winter has come, and the giant wolf has swallowed the sun.
Today, Matt Lewis holds our hand as we experience the end of the...
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47:02
How Did the Industrial Revolution Change the World?
16 October 2025Was the Industrial Revolution the most important event in human history? Dan is joined by economist and journalist Duncan Weldon to explore why...
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51:29
What If There Were No CIA?
16 October 2025The Agency. The Company. Langley.
Without the Central Intelligence Agency, would we talk about conspiracy theories as much as we do? Who...
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