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What Happened On A Medieval Wedding Night?
22 April 2025We've been tying the knot for thousands of years in one way or another, but what did a medieval wedding look like?
The church had very...
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Vietnam: Conscientious Objection in a Warzone
21 April 2025During the Vietnam War, 170,000 men received conscientious objector deferments. In this episode, we speak to one of them.
Sidney Morrison...
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Cardinal Wolsey
21 April 2025No advisor was more important to King Henry VIII than Cardinal Thomas Wolsey. He captured Henry's attention with his brilliance and became his...
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Hammersmith Ghost: How to Murder a Poltergeist
21 April 2025Can it be murder if you think you're killing a ghost? In 1804 the London suburb of Hammersmith was being terrorised by a ghost. One man set out to...
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Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition
21 April 2025Assassin’s Creed Syndicate takes players to Victorian London. This was an age of massive social change through technological innovation and...
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How Did the American Revolution Start?
20 April 2025On 19th April, 1775, just over 250 years ago, the opening salvos of the American Revolutionary War were fired at the battles of Lexington and...
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The Praetorian Guard: Rise to Power
20 April 2025From Gladiator to Rome Total War to I, Claudius, today the Cohortēs praetōriae are one of the most distinctive military units of Imperial Rome....
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Crown of Thorns
18 April 2025What if one of the most iconic symbols of suffering and triumph in Christian history isn't what you think it is? Matt Lewis is joined by Dr. Faith...
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The Battle of Berlin with Sir Antony Beevor
17 April 2025Warning: this episode includes discussion of subjects like suicide and sexual assault that some listeners may find disturbing.
80 years ago,...
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41:09
The Truth About Paul Revere's Ride
17 April 2025Paul Revere's Midnight Ride is a legend of the American Revolutionary War - galloping through the Massachusetts' dark to warn Sam Adams, John...
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History's Worst F*ckboys: Casanova
17 April 2025Can you imagine being SO smooth-talking and seductive your surname becomes an actual noun in the dictionary to describe someone who has a...
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John the Baptist
17 April 2025From the wilderness of ancient Judea to the pages of the New Testament, John the Baptist is one of the most compelling and mysterious figures in...
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