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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, …
2 years 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…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Road to The Great War: The Lights Go Out (Part 6)
Episode 474
“The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime”
In the early days of August 1914, the British press has bec…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Road to The Great War: The Tsar Chooses War (Part 5)
Episode 473
“We have been forced to draw the sword”.
Following the expiry of Austria’s Ultimatum on Saturday 25th July 1914, the Kaiser and the Tsar - friends and…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Road to The Great War: Britain's Fateful Choice (Part 4)
Episode 472
On the 24th of July 1914, in London, the Liberal British Cabinet met to hear the Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey, read them the Ultimatum handed t…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Road to The Great War: The Austrian Ultimatum (Part 3)
Episode 471
On the 20th of July 1914 the heads of state of two great European powers - France and Russia - met in St Petersburg. Little did they know, though the…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Road to The Great War: The Kaiser’s Blank Cheque (Part 2)
Episode 470
In the wake of the cataclysmic assassination of Franz Ferdinand on the 28th of June 1914, in Austria, the long percolating question of what to do abo…
2 years, 1 month ago