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How To Fake Virginity
24 October 2025Why, just why, would one put a leech up their .. you know where? It's all in the name of virginity, or the faking of it.
Kate is joined by...
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31:22
Elizabeth I: Evil or Genius?
23 October 2025Elizabeth I is often celebrated as one of the greatest English monarchs - but should she be? From her commanding portraits and grand speeches to...
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50:31
What If George Washington Became King?
23 October 2025‘No occurrence in the course of the war has given me more painful sensations.' This was George Washington's response when the idea of his...
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Bog Bodies
23 October 2025What lurks under the surface of the dense black peat pits strewn across northern Europe? Bog bodies, naturally mummified humans, have fascinated...
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50:48
When Europe met Islam
23 October 2025In the Early Modern period the boundaries between Christian and Islamic civilisations were far more porous than we imagine: Isaac Newton’s...
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44:03
Witches of Cornwall
23 October 2025From the spookiest corner of the British isles, comes two stories of witches. Stories of fairies and magical powers, of skeletons and haunted...
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39:29
How to Survive in Renaissance England
21 October 2025Quacks, wise women, barber surgeons and private madhouses - just some of the options available if you were to find yourself in ill health in the...
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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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45:06
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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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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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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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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