Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNelson: Hero of the Seas (Part 1)
Episode 514
It’s 1758 and Britain’s greatest naval commander has just been born. The young Horatio Nelson has inherited his father’s love of god and his mother’s…
1 year, 4 months ago
America in '68: Nixon's Great Comeback (Part 6)
Episode 513
“Nixon now! Nixon now! More than ever we need Nixon now!”
It's the 5th of November 1968, and Richard M. Nixon is on tenterhooks, alone in his dark hot…
1 year, 4 months ago
America in '68: The Chicago Riots (Part 5)
Episode 512
The Democratic National Convention is in Chicago, and the incumbent president, Lyndon B. Johnson, has pulled out of the race. Anti-war protestors are…
1 year, 4 months ago
America in '68: George Wallace, The First Donald Trump (Part 4)
Episode 511
“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!”
George Wallace, Governor of Alabama, was one of the most successful third-party preside…
1 year, 5 months ago
America in '68: The Killing of Robert Kennedy (Part 3)
Episode 510
“What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violenc…
1 year, 5 months ago
America in '68: The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (Part 2)
Episode 509
The peaceful figurehead of the Civil Rights movement in the early 1960s, Dr Martin Luther King had inspired hundreds of thousands to demand equal rig…
1 year, 5 months ago
America in '68: Nightmare in Vietnam (Part 1)
Episode 508
"Tonight I want to speak to you of peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.”
On the night of Sunday, 31st of March 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson, afte…
1 year, 5 months ago
The French Revolution: The Marseillaise, Song of War (Part 5)
Episode 507
“Let us march! Let us march! May impure blood water our fields!”
Written after the declaration of war against Austria in 1792, “La Marseillaise” was b…
1 year, 5 months ago
The French Revolution: Massacre at the Palace (Part 4)
Episode 506
The war between revolutionary France and the allied powers of Prussia and Austria has reached fever pitch, and in early August 1792, the latter party…
1 year, 5 months ago
The French Revolution: The Shadow of the Guillotine (Part 3)
Episode 505
During the "Ancien Regime", royal executioners held an unholy status, and would strike up fear in the crowds as they walked the streets of Paris. But…
1 year, 5 months ago