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How to Survive the Age of Sail
1 December 2025What was life really like aboard the great wooden ships of the Age of Sail? Dan joins After Dark hosts Anthony and Maddy to step aboard these...
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Dark Side of the Quakers
1 December 2025**Contains story of a young male suicide**
Out of the devastation of the English Civil Wars, a radical new religious movement was born. The...
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The Only Prime Minister Ever Assassinated
1 December 2025Was this moment the closest Britain came to revolution? When Prime Minister Spencer Perceval lay dying on the floor of the Parliament, many feared...
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Life as a Greek Philosopher: Socrates, Hippocrates & Herodotus
1 December 2025One of the most profoundly influential periods in history is the 5th century BCE, when when a collection of great minds in Ancient Greece formed...
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The Khmer Empire: Angkor Wat
30 November 2025How did Indian culture shape the wonders of Southeast Asia?
Tristan Hughes is joined by William Dalrymple to explore the fascinating first...
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When the Vikings met the Slavs
28 November 2025Journey east with Matt Lewis and Martyn Whittock to uncover how the Vikings came face to face with the Slavs. Using clues like the Ingvar Rune...
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Origins of Aphrodite: The Sex-Positive Goddess
28 November 2025Who was Aphrodite? She's often thought of as a goddess of sexuality, but there's so much more to this woman.
Which ancient civilisation was...
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Thanksgiving
27 November 2025In the fall of 1621, a year after the pilgrim ship the Mayflower landed on the coast of New England, the settlers of the Plymouth Colony...
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The Assassination of JFK
27 November 2025Anyone alive at the time remembers the day President John F. Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas, Texas, on November 22 1963. In this episode, Dan...
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The World's Oldest Letters
27 November 2025What do the world’s first letters reveal about life in the Bronze Age?
Tristan Hughes is joined by Dr Amanda Podany to uncover the...
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Mother of All Tudors: Margaret Beaufort
27 November 2025Step into the turbulent heart of the Wars of the Roses and meet one of history’s most formidable survivors: Lady Margaret...
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Who Was Medieval Europe's Most Evil Monarch?
27 November 2025Who was the very worst of all the Medieval monarchs? No spoilers but we've got monarchs driven psychopathic by love, terrible sadists, and egos...
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