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Sweating Sickness: Deadly Tudor Plague
3 February 2025It's a medical-history-mystery: the Sweating Sickness. Things get clammy as Anthony Delaney and Maddy Pelling ask what was this deadly disease?...
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1. The English Civil War: How it Started
3 February 2025Episode 1/2. King Charles I's decision to rule without Parliament was just one of the many reasons that England found itself embroiled in a bloody...
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Woolly Mammoths
2 February 2025Towering over 11 feet tall and weighing 6 tonnes, the Woolly Mammoth ruled the Ice Age. But how did these mighty beasts thrive for over 100,000...
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Genghis Khan's Sex Life
31 January 2025As historical figures go, Genghis Khan has something of a reputation.
Is there any truth to the rumours of him fathering so many children?...
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Leif Erikson
31 January 2025Matt Lewis dives deep into the life and exploits of Leif Erikson, debating whether he was the first European to set foot in North America. Joined...
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Auschwitz Commandant: Rudolf Höss
31 January 2025Every day Rudolf Höss oversaw the killing of thousands of people at the death camp and then went home and acted like a doting father to his...
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FDR & Churchill
30 January 2025FDR and Winston Churchill spent 113 days in each others' company during WWII. FDR even saw Churchill naked. But how close were the pair in...
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Final Days of the Romanovs (Part 1)
30 January 2025(1/2) As Russia collapses, the Romanovs find themselves trapped by delusions and failed ideals; by revolution and Russian geography. Helen...
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The Chinese Zodiac
30 January 2025The Year of the Snake is here! But how did a legendary tale of twelve animals shape Chinese astronomy and culture for over 3,000 years?
In...
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Lucrezia Borgia
30 January 2025For our final foray into the shadowy Renaissance world of the Borgia Dynasty, we explore the enigma that was Lucrezia Borgia, whose life...
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The Hunt for Pablo Escobar
29 January 2025By the early 1990s, the Colombian city of Medellín was at the centre of the world's largest drug empire. The fearsome Medellín Cartel, led by...
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Who Was Lilith? The Semen-Stealing First Wife Of Adam
28 January 2025Lilith's story goes back 4,000 years, and she's still making an impact today.
She takes on different forms, depending on where you're...
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