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The First World War: Downfall of the Habsburgs (Part 6)
Episode 599
After endeavouring to wreak their revenge on Serbia, what would be the greatest hammer blow to the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the First World War? With Leviv having fallen apocalyptically to the …
Published on 13 hours ago
The First World War: The Eastern Front Explodes (Part 5)
Episode 598
While the Western front was raging following the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, what was unfolding on the Eastern Front? Why was it an even bloodier and more brutal arena than the West? As …
Published on 5 days, 13 hours ago
The First World War: The Massacre of the Innocents (Part 4)
Episode 597
What happened at the crucial, bloody, Battle of Ypres in October 1914? How did the battle come about? Why did the Germans and the British fight each other so brutally and for so long to take Ypres? W…
Published on 1 week ago
The First World War: The Miracle on the Marne (Part 3)
Episode 596
What extraordinary events saw the French - already on the brink of defeat - take on the formerly formidable German army in a remarkable counter-offensive on the 4th of September, in France, in a clas…
Published on 1 week, 3 days ago
The First World War: The Battle of the Frontiers (Part 2)
Episode 595
What was Britain's first military move following the outbreak of the First World War? Where did the French launch their initial attack on the Germans? Whose army was the biggest and best of all the p…
Published on 2 weeks ago
The First World War: The Invasion of Belgium (Part 1)
Episode 594
Following the declaration of war in 1914, how did the outbreak of the First World War unfold? What were the earliest military engagements of this terrible, totemic event? Who were its key political p…
Published on 2 weeks, 3 days ago
The Fight of the Century
Episode 593
Why did two men - John Heenan and and Tom Sayers - illegally meet in a field in Hampshire, in 1860, to brutally fight one another, captivating Britain in the process? What can the fight tell us about…
Published on 3 weeks ago
Mad Victorian Sport
Episode 592
How and when was football invented, and what are the origins of football clubs? What is the connection between public hangings, highwaymen, and early sporting events? Which is the most historically i…
Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Manhunt for the Killer (Part 2)
Episode 591
How was President Abraham Lincoln murdered on Good Friday 1865, at Ford’s Theatre, just five days after Robert E. Lee’s surrender? Who was John Wilkes Booth, the racist actor with southern sympathies…
Published on 4 weeks ago
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Death at the Theatre (Part 1)
Episode 590
After passing the 13th amendment, in the closing weeks of the brutal American Civil War, what did president Abraham Lincoln - recently re-elected - do next to inflame his detractors? Crippled with gu…
Published on 1 month ago