Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAmsterdam: Miracles, Money, and Mud (Part 1)
Episode 351
A city built on water, Amsterdam has often set the tone of European modernity. It first gained prominence as a miraculous centre for pilgrimage, and …
2 years, 8 months ago
351. Amsterdam: Miracles, Money and Mud
Episode 351
A city built on water, Amsterdam has often set the tone of European modernity. It first gained prominence as a miraculous centre for pilgrimage, and …
2 years, 8 months ago
The Triumph of George Washington (Part 4)
Episode 350
With the French and Spanish siding with George Washington’s revolutionaries, the game is up for the British, and it seems time for them to cut their …
2 years, 8 months ago
The Birth of the United States (Part 3)
Episode 349
“O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!” The U.S. Congress votes for independence on the 2nd…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Boston Tea Party (Part 2)
Episode 348
“Last night three cargos of tea were emptied into the sea. This morning a man of war sails. This is the most magnificent movement of all. There is a …
2 years, 9 months ago
The American Revolution (Part 1)
Episode 347
“America, late the strength, now the foe to Britain, dismembered, torn, I fear forever lost to England, whence she sprung.”
The American Revolution ca…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Mystery of the Holy Grail (Part 2)
Episode 346
“Who drinks the water I shall give him, will have a spring inside him welling up for eternal life.” A deeply mysterious object which doesn’t appear i…
2 years, 9 months ago
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Part 1)
Episode 345
The most important object in the universe, but also a somewhat invisible presence in the Bible, the Ark of the Covenant has fuelled stories for mille…
2 years, 9 months ago
Oppenheimer: The Witch Hunt (Part 2)
Episode 344
Following the use of the atomic bomb in Japan and the end of the Second World War, Oppenheimer pushes for an international approach to nuclear power.…
2 years, 9 months ago
Oppenheimer: The Father of the Atom Bomb (Part 1)
Episode 343
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” This was J. Robert Oppenheimer’s reaction to the first atomic bomb test in July 1945, marking the b…
2 years, 9 months ago