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Jamestown: From Colony to Cannibalism

**This episode contains graphic explorations of starvation and cannibalism**

What happens when a colony reaches the edge of...

The Secret Lesbian Affair under Mary Queen of Scots

16th century Scotland was a hard time to be a woman, far harder if you happened to be a woman who loved women. Yet from this dark time a dazzling...

Agrippina the Younger: Rome's Most Notorious Empress

Agrippina the Younger was one of the most powerful players in Roman history: a ruthless political operator who clawed her way to co-rule the...

What Made America? The Abolitionists

In 1831, it looked like enslavement in America would continue forever. 34 years later, it was permanently abolished under the 13th...

Delphi: Centre of the Ancient World

For more than a thousand years, Delphi was considered a cultural centre of the ancient world. Every year a throng of pilgrims climbed the slopes...

A Complete History of Medieval Scotland

What if Scotland’s story began with a miracle in battle, a white cross in the sky, and a kingdom forged through war, faith and sheer...

Supersluts of History: Hollywood's Marlene Dietrich

Marlene Dietrich was unapologetic in her love of sex, and she had a lot of it.

She took Hollywood by storm in the 1930s and slept with some...

Lewis & Clark & Sacagawea's Expedition

Lewis and Clark's expedition is a foundational story of America and Sacagawea was more central to it than is remembered. We hear this incredible...

Life in the Trenches

What was life really like in the trenches of the First World War? In this episode, we step into the mud of the Western Front to hear about the...

The Murder Network That Terrified Versailles

In 17th century France, Louis XIV's court sparkled with luxury. It also teemed with poison, occult rituals and aristocrats trying to murder their...

True Crime: Moll Cutpurse - London's Cross-Dressing Criminal

How did one woman scandalise sixteenth century London by refusing to live by its rules?

Mary Frith - aka Moll Cutpurse - rejected the...

Stonehenge with Ken Follett

What if the secrets of Stonehenge lie not just in the stones, but in the people who hauled them there?

Tristan Hughes sits down with...