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Season 1 Episode 194
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James Brooke had become the first White Rajah of Sarawak, but winning a kingdom was one thing. Holding on to it would prove considera…
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The White Rajas - The Englishman Who Bought a Kingdom (Part One)
Season 1 Episode 193
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In August 1839, a wealthy English adventurer sailed up a river in Borneo aboard his private schooner, carrying a letter of thanks and…
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The Cuban Missle Crisis - Thirty Seconds from Total Nuclear Annihilation (Part Two)
Season 1 Episode 192
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October 1962. The world is holding its breath. American warships are enforcing a naval blockade around Cuba, Soviet missiles are bein…
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The Cuban Missle Crisis - Thirty Seconds from Total Nuclear Annihilation (Part One)
Season 1 Episode 191
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In October 1962, the world came closer to nuclear annihilation than most of us will ever fully appreciate. For thirteen extraordinary…
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How the East India Company Took Penang: A Promise Betrayed
Season 1 Episode 190
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In 1786, Francis Light raised the British flag over Penang and changed the history of the Malay Peninsula. But the deal behind it was…
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Gallipoli
Season 1 Episode 189
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In April 1915, thousands of young Australians and New Zealanders approached an unfamiliar Turkish coastline in small boats. Most had …
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The Knights Templar: The King, the Curse and the Lost Treasure
Season 1 Episode 188
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They began as a handful of armed monks protecting pilgrims on the road to Jerusalem. Within two centuries, the Knights Templar had be…
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Bloomsbury Ley Lines - The Tangled Web
Season 1 Episode 187
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The Bloomsbury Group were writers, artists, thinkers and intellectuals who helped reshape twentieth century culture. But behind the b…
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Bloomsbury: Art, Obsession, and Ruin
Season 1 Episode 57
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They shattered convention with every stroke of the pen and brush—and tore through each other’s lives in the process.
The Bloomsbury Gr…
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Colour - What We Really See
Season 1 Episode 90
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In the 1660s, Isaac Newton sat alone in the dark—and drove a needle behind his eye. Not out of madness, but to understand light.
Centu…
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