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The Nazis' Road to War: Hitler Prepares to Strike (Part 1)
Episode 528
Throughout the course of the 1930s, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party has overwhelmingly, terrifyingly seized power in Germany. Now, Hitler’s vile ambitions …
1 year, 7 months ago
Beethoven: Napoleon and the Music of War LIVE at the Royal Albert Hall
Episode 527
Ludwig Van Beethoven, like his precursor and possible acquaintance Mozart, is one of the most famous figures in Western musical history. With his wil…
1 year, 7 months ago
Mozart: History's Greatest Prodigy LIVE at the Royal Albert Hall
Episode 526
In 1756 a musical prodigy was born in Salzburg, Austria: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Thanks to the efforts of his exacting father, Mozart's genius was e…
1 year, 8 months ago
Charlemagne: Emperor of the West (Part 3)
Episode 525
“And from that moment on, he was addressed as emperor and Augustus!”
The coronation of Charlemagne on Christmas Day 800 AD, is one of the landmark mom…
1 year, 8 months ago
Charlemagne: Pagan Killer (Part 2)
Episode 524
“Here was a program to wet the ambitions of warlords as well as scholars, and to send men into battle beneath the fluttering of banners, the hiss of …
1 year, 8 months ago
Charlemagne: Return of the Kings (Part 1)
Episode 523
The Frankish king, Charlemagne the Great, is one of the titanic figures of European history, simultaneously renowned and shadowy. His rise to supreme…
1 year, 8 months ago
Warlords of the West: A Clash of Ice and Fire (Part 3)
Episode 522
By 711 Europe and the Frankish warlords were facing a graver threat than ever before. Bands of Northern African, nominally Muslim raiders had begun a…
1 year, 8 months ago
Warlords of the West: Killer Queens (Part 2)
Episode 521
Following the death of the legendary Frankish King Clovis, his son Clothar I divided the mighty realm his father had hacked out from the warring warl…
1 year, 8 months ago
Warlords of the West: Barbarian Heirs of Rome (Part 1)
Episode 520
The Rise of the Franks - a mighty host of warlords; forefathers of the western world and forgers of medieval civilisation, under the totemic leadersh…
1 year, 8 months ago
The World's First City
Episode 519
In as early as 5000 BC the vast and spectacular city of Uruk - replete with towering walls, glistening temples and complex irrigation systems - lay s…
1 year, 8 months ago