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Back to SearchThe 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
Evita: The Mystery of the Missing Body (Part 5)
Episode 498
After lying in state in an open casket, Evita’s corpse is taken down to a secret laboratory in the basement. And as the Argentinian Victor Frankenste…
1 year, 11 months ago
Evita: Death of a Martyr (Part 4)
Episode 497
The workaholic mother of a nation, Evita’s health deteriorates and she faints at a public event. A self-proclaimed martyr, she seems to be willing to…
1 year, 11 months ago
Evita: The World's Most Powerful Woman (Part 3)
Episode 496
“There is only one man who can lead any worker’s regime.”
Together, Eva and Colonel Perón built a political movement powered by operatic rhetoric. Per…
1 year, 11 months ago
Evita: The Rise of General Perón (Part 2)
Episode 495
An admirer of Hitler and Mussolini, Colonel Perón rose through the ranks during the 1943 military coup in Argentina. Following a disastrous earthquak…
1 year, 11 months ago
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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 months ago