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Death in the Amazon: Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Episode 543
“Anyone who even thinks of abandoning this mission will be cut up into a thousand pieces…I am the wrath of God!”
At the height of the age of explorati…
1 year, 1 month ago
Elizabeth I’s Sorcerer: Angels and Demons in Renaissance Europe
Episode 542
In Tudor England, during the reign of Elizabeth I, there lived in the very heart of her court a magician, alchemist and polymath, bent upon conversin…
1 year, 1 month ago
Heart of Darkness: Fear and Loathing in the Congo
Episode 541
“The horror! The horror!”
Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ - the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's ‘Apocalypse Now’ - is one of the most celeb…
1 year, 1 month ago
Horror in the Congo: A Conspiracy Unmasked (Part 3)
Episode 540
Exposing the dark pit of human suffering, cruelty and corruption that had long been secretly festering in King Leopold’s Congo, would reveal one of t…
1 year, 1 month ago
Horror in the Congo: The Crimes of Empire (Part 2)
Episode 539
“A secret society of murderers with a king for a ringleader”.
In 1885 King Leopold of Belgium; an awkward, ruthless, selfish man, was recognised as th…
1 year, 1 month ago
Horror in the Congo: The Nightmare Begins (Part 1)
Episode 538
The story of King Leopold of Belgium’s brutal regime in the Congo Free State, during the late 19th century, is one of the darkest and most important …
1 year, 1 month ago
Emperors of Rome: Claudius, Paranoia and Poison (Part 4)
Episode 537
Following the bloody assassination of the twenty-eight year old Emperor Caligula, Rome found herself without a leader. Who then should fill the enorm…
1 year, 2 months ago
Emperors of Rome: Caligula, Incest and Insanity (Part 3)
Episode 536
"Enough of the Princeps, what remains to be described, is the monster..."
The Roman emperor Caligula endures as one of the most notorious figures in n…
1 year, 2 months ago
Emperors of Rome: Tiberius, Slaughter and Scandal (Part 2)
Episode 535
The Roman historian Suetonius’ biography of the controversial Emperor Tiberius is one of his most shocking and salacious, condemning Tiberius to infa…
1 year, 2 months ago
Emperors of Rome: Sex Secrets of the Caesars (Part 1)
Episode 534
The Roman historian Suetonius’ The Lives of the Caesars, written during the early imperial period of the Roman Empire, is a seminal biography coverin…
1 year, 2 months ago