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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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 months ago
The French Revolution: War to the Death (Part 2)
Episode 504
“You have shaken off the yoke of your despots, but surely this was not to bend the knee before a foreign tyrant…”
It’s January 1792, and one of the la…
1 year, 10 months ago
The French Revolution: Bloodbath in Paris (Part 1)
Episode 503
Welcome to Season 2 of The French Revolution!
Revolutionary fervour threatens to engulf the streets of Paris, as demonstrators have gathered on the Ch…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Roman Conquest of Britain: To the Ends of the Earth (Part 4)
Episode 502
In the aftermath of Boudicca’s uprising, the Romans felt they could not withdraw from the British Isles. They sent their most competent fighters and …
1 year, 10 months ago
The Roman Conquest of Britain: Boudicca’s Reign of Blood (Part 3)
Episode 501
“Two cities were sacked, eighty thousand of the Romans and of their allies perished, and the island was lost to Rome. Moreover, all this ruin was bro…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Roman Conquest of Britain: The Empire Strikes Back (Part 2)
Episode 500
Viewed as an idiot by those around him, Claudius felt the need to prove himself. In the century since Caesar had invaded Britain, the mythology surro…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Roman Conquest of Britain: Julius Caesar’s Invasion (Part 1)
Episode 499
Julius Caesar saw the Britons as brutal savages. Yet the Romans romanticised their lack of civilisation, deeming them as untainted by Mediterranean l…
1 year, 11 months ago