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Evita: Birth of a Legend (Part 1)
Episode 494
“Don’t cry for me Argentina, the truth is I never left you.”
Few political figures have been both hailed as a saint and immortalised through an Andre…
1 year, 6 months ago
Lee Miller: Exposing the Horrors of World War Two
Episode 493
It’s August 1944: the Liberation of Paris is underway, and France appears to slowly be extricating herself from Nazi control. But, on the French west…
1 year, 6 months ago
The War on Beards: From Peter the Great to John Lennon (Part 2)
Episode 492
“I like an Englishman to look like an Englishman, and beards are foreign and breed vermin. Also depend upon it, they will lead to filthy habits.”
Euro…
1 year, 6 months ago
History's Greatest Beards: From Egyptian Queens to Medieval Conquerors (Part 1)
Episode 491
What did Marcus Aurelius, Jesus, and Ragnar Lothbrok all have in common? Apart from their notorious and symbolic deaths, all three men boasted luscio…
1 year, 7 months ago
Hundred Years' War: England Triumphant (Part 4)
Episode 490
St Crispin’s day, 1415: Henry V stands victorious, after a tremendous defeat of the French forces at the Battle of Agincourt. He is just about to mak…
1 year, 7 months ago
Hundred Years' War: Bloodbath at Agincourt (Part 3)
Episode 489
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers”.
The Battle of Agincourt in 1415 endures as perhaps the most totemic battle in the whole of English histor…
1 year, 7 months ago
Hundred Years' War: The Road to Agincourt (Part 2)
Episode 488
On the 11th of August 1415, King Henry V of England - an austere, pious, thoughtful and terrifying warlord in only his late-twenties - set sail for F…
1 year, 7 months ago
Hundred Years' War: Henry V’s Invasion of France (Part 1)
Episode 487
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends. Once more, we'll close the wall up with our English dead […] And upon this charge, cry God for Harry, Engla…
1 year, 7 months ago
Henry IV: Warrior Princes and Fat Knights (Part 2)
Episode 486
The year is 1403, and the Usurper King, Henry IV, faces a seemingly insurmountable challenge to his rule. He has been brought the news that his old f…
1 year, 7 months ago
Henry IV: The Usurper King (Part 1)
Episode 485
"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown…”
Henry IV has been portrayed as both a shadowy, obscure figure, and a strong king who was loved by his peopl…
1 year, 7 months ago