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Episode 484
The unexpected evolution of Italian food can serve as a tantalising doorway into some of the greatest moments of Italian history: from medieval monar…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Mysterious Case of the Ape Man
Episode 483
In Sussex, in 1912, men quarrying in a gravel pit near Piltdown village turned up a human skull. According to Charles Dawson, a lawyer and amateur ar…
1 year, 7 months ago
The French Revolution: The Royal Family Escapes (Part 8)
Episode 482
Twelve months after the dramatic Women’s March on Versailles, the Revolution proper was well into its stride, and while Paris overflowed with a sense…
1 year, 8 months ago
The French Revolution: The Women's March on Versailles (Part 7)
Episode 481
By the summer of 1789 the different sections of the Revolution were at loggerheads, and the recently created National Assembly riven in two. Both fac…
1 year, 8 months ago
The French Revolution: The Rights of Man (Part 6)
Episode 480
“Liberté, égalité, fraternité!”
Alongside violence, the French Revolution is a story of principles and values. It is the ultimate intersection of brut…
1 year, 8 months ago
The French Revolution: The Storming of the Bastille (Part 5)
Episode 479
“It was violence that made the revolution revolutionary”.
The storming of the Bastille is viewed by many across the world as a moment of celebration, …
1 year, 8 months ago
The French Revolution: Showdown in Versailles (Part 4)
Episode 478
In the summer of 1788, a monstrous storm swept across France, wiping out the crucial wheat harvest. With the nation already in the throes of politica…
1 year, 8 months ago
The French Revolution: The Violence Begins (Part 3)
Episode 477
With seismic antecedents such as the Glorious Revolution in England and the American War of Independence, what was it about the French Revolution tha…
1 year, 8 months ago
The French Revolution: The Diamond Necklace Scandal (Part 2)
Episode 476
In August 1785 a shocking affair came to light which would prove so detrimental to the reputation and standing of the French King Louis XVI, and more…
1 year, 8 months ago
The French Revolution: Marie Antoinette (Part 1)
Episode 475
The French Revolution is one of the great seismic events of global history. A devouring conflagration of bloodshed, violence and utopianism, it chang…
1 year, 8 months ago