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Back to SearchLord Byron: Scandal, Sex and Celebrity (Part 2)
Episode 441
By 1809, Lord Byron found himself untethered and debt-ridden. Disenchanted with politics, frustrated by his literary career and haunted by his illici…
2 years, 4 months ago
Lord Byron: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know (Part 1)
Episode 440
Few lives from history can have contained as many strange and exciting strands as that of Lord Byron's, whose story reflects the great dramas of the …
2 years, 4 months ago
Disco: Sex and Race in Seventies America
Episode 439
Music for sex, dancing, and watching the straight world go by…
The explosion of Disco provides an extraordinary window into the tumultuous world of t…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Moonwalkers, with Tom Hanks
Episode 438
“We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are har…
2 years, 4 months ago
Luther: A World Torn Apart (Part 5)
Episode 437
“I think there is not a devil left in hell, they have all gone into the peasants… smite, stab and slay all”.
Following on from Martin Luther’s dramat…
2 years, 5 months ago
Luther: Showdown with the Emperor (Part 4)
Episode 436
"I cannot and will not recant anything for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe.…Here I stand, I can do no other”
The Diet of Worms in A…
2 years, 5 months ago
Luther: The Battle Against Satan (Part 3)
Episode 435
Three years on from Martin Luther’s publication of the Ninety-Five Theses - a shocking attack on the corruption of the Catholic Church and the sellin…
2 years, 5 months ago
Luther: The Revolution Begins (Part 2)
Episode 434
Martin Luther is one of the few people to have genuinely changed the world, igniting a religious revolution that tore Christendom in two, and undermi…
2 years, 5 months ago
Luther: The Man Who Changed the World (Part 1)
Episode 433
The Reformation, launched in 1517, stands as one of the most convulsive and transformative events of all time, shattering Christendom and dividing Eu…
2 years, 5 months ago
Titanic: The Survivors (Part 6)
Episode 432
"Then it is I drown again, with all those dim lost faces I never understood… Include me in your lamentations.”
The aftermath of the Titanic’s sinking …
2 years, 5 months ago