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Back to SearchThe Last Viking: Warrior of the New Rome (Part 2)
Episode 553
Harald Hardrada; exiled prince of Norway and mercenary, has landed in the greatest city on Earth: Constantinople. There he joins one of the most pres…
1 year ago
The Last Viking: The Saga of Harald Hardrada (Part 1)
Episode 552
“I swear I will not flee from this fight. I will triumph, or I will die!”
In the 1066 game of thrones for the crown of England, the most extraordinary…
1 year ago
The Road to 1066: Countdown to Conquest (Part 4)
Episode 551
In the triumvirate of 1066, William of Normandy, Harald Hardrada, and Harold Godwinson, the latter has above all endured as one of the great heroes o…
1 year ago
The Road to 1066: Rise of the Normans (Part 3)
Episode 550
Born into a world of treachery, violence and death, William of Normandy defied all expectations, forging a legacy that lasts to this day. Born out of…
1 year ago
The Road to 1066: Revenge of the Vikings (Part 2)
Episode 549
Following the bloody St Brice’s Day Massacre, of the 13th of November 1002, which saw King Æthelred brutally exterminating the Danes from England, th…
1 year ago
The Road to 1066: Anglo-Saxon Apocalypse (Part 1)
Episode 548
The Norman Conquest of 1066, culminating in the legendary Battle of Hastings, is perhaps the greatest turning point in the history of the English nat…
1 year ago
The French Revolution: The Execution of the King (Part 4)
Episode 547
The second revolution that engulfed France over the course of 1792 reached its climax in December, with an astonishing, world-changing spectacle, whi…
1 year ago
The French Revolution: The Monarchy Falls (Part 3)
Episode 546
“From this place and from this day forth commences a new era in the world’s history, and you can all say you were present at its birth!”
By September …
1 year ago
The French Revolution: The First Feminist (Part 2)
Episode 545
In the summer and Autumn of 1792 - with the Prussians bearing down on Paris, the streets thronged with the stirring swell of the Marseillaise, but al…
1 year, 1 month ago
The French Revolution: The September Massacres (Part 1)
Episode 544
‘Still more traitors, still more treason…"
It is 1792 and France has been at war since April; it is not going well. In Paris, the Tuileries Palace has…
1 year, 1 month ago