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Back to SearchThe 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, 5 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months ago
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, 6 months 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, 6 months 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, 6 months 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, 6 months 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, 6 months 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, 6 months ago