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How Hot Was Henry VIII?
22 August 2025With SIX wives, Henry VIII must have had something going for him, right? Was he handsome? Charming? Intelligent? Just plain powerful?
In...
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Emperor Nero
21 August 2025Emperor Nero has gone down in history as the archetypal bad ruler - cruel, decadent, and perhaps even responsible for setting Rome ablaze. But how...
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American Traitors: Axis Sally
21 August 2025Is contributing to enemy propaganda treason? In this second episode on American Traitors, we are meeting 'Axis Sally', real name Mildred...
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Ashurbanipal: The Last Great King of Assyria
21 August 2025Known as the 'King of the World' and the last great king of Assyria, Ashurbanipal bestrode the ancient Mesopotamian world as a warrior but also a...
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Tudor True Crime: Murder of Amy Dudley
21 August 2025**WARNING: This episode contains descriptions of suicide**
On 6 September 1560, Amy Robsart Dudley died after falling down a staircase at...
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The Darkest Scandal in Victorian Britain
21 August 2025Today we step into the shadowy world of W.T. Stead—a Victorian journalist whose life was as controversial as it was...
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The Colosseum
19 August 2025Join Dan in Rome as he unravels the dramatic story of the Colosseum and the gladiators who fought — and died — for glory. From the origins of...
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Medieval Obscenity
19 August 2025This episode contains obscene and sexual language throughout
The medieval world was far from prudish, it was positively bawdy. Writers,...
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42:05
The Real Virgin Mary
19 August 2025Why has the idea of the Virgin Mary’s virginity been so important?
What does this tell us about the relationship between Christianity and...
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56:26
What If Lincoln Hadn't Been Shot?
18 August 2025It's the biggest 'What if?' in American history: What if Lincoln hadn't been shot? The assassination could so easily have failed and things went...
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Tudor True Crime: Murder of Christopher Marlowe
18 August 2025Who stabbed the famed playwright? And who planned it? We're stepping out of the sun and into the shadows on Not Just the Tudors, as Professor...
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New York's Wildest Murder Case
18 August 2025This 1897 New York murder case that has it all - a villain, an incredibly useless police force, and a duck who saves the day. The incredible Dr...
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