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The Sumerians
31 August 2025More than 5,000 years ago, in what is today southern Iraq, one of the world’s first civilisations emerged. A civilisation often credited with...
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Shag, Marry, Kill: Roman Emperor Edition
29 August 2025Which would be better for a fling, which would you not touch with a barge pole, and which is marriage material? There's only one way to find...
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King Edward I: Hammer of the Scots
29 August 2025From his early years marked by an assassination attempt on his father that coincided with Edward's conception, to his brutal campaigns against the...
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The Rise and Fall of Carthage
28 August 2025In this episode, we tackle the Punic Wars - three epic clashes between Rome and Carthage for control of the Mediterranean. From naval battles to...
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American Traitors: The Rosenbergs
28 August 2025This week we’re stepping heart of Cold War America with the story of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Accused of espionage and executed at the height...
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The Sea Peoples
28 August 2025Tristan Hughes sits down with Professor Eric Cline to explore the enigmatic Sea Peoples, often blamed for the catastrophic Bronze Age collapse...
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Jack the Ripper: Invention of a Monster
28 August 2025Jack the Ripper as we think of him, is an invention of the Victorian media. They took the complete absence of hard facts about the killer, and...
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Tudor True Crime: Europe's Most Murderous Dynasty
28 August 2025The rich and powerful Guise family was one of the most treacherous and bloodthirsty in sixteenth-century France. They whipped up religious...
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The Tower of London
26 August 2025Dan takes listeners through 1000 years of Britain's history at the Tower of London, from its formidable kings to its most notorious prisoners. Dan...
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Women of the Crusades
26 August 2025The image we usually associate with a Crusader - of a dashing nobleman on a mighty steed heading out for Holy War - often obscures all of the...
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How To Survive the Revolutionary War
25 August 2025'If I turn from beholding mutilated bodies, mangled limbs, and bleeding, incurable wounds, a spectacle no less revolting is presented, of...
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Life in the Roman Army
25 August 2025Anno 117: Pax Romana is set in the year when the Roman Empire expanded to its greatest extent in all its history; and saw the death of Trajan, who...
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