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Back to SearchYoung Napoleon: The Shadow of the Guillotine
Episode 383
Within the turmoil of the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte stands out to his military superiors, first by defeating the British at Toulon, then …
2 years, 10 months ago
Young Napoleon: Teenage Revolutionary
Episode 382
“I would plunge the avenging dagger, up to the hilt, in the breast of the tyrant!”
Born in Corsica a year after the island was given to France by the …
2 years, 10 months ago
Captain Cook: To the Ends of the Earth
Episode 381
Cook has been sent by the Royal Navy to the Pacific to track the transit of Venus from Tahiti, but also with a second, secret mission: once he’s reac…
2 years, 10 months ago
Captain Cook: History’s Greatest Explorer
Episode 380
The greatest sea explorer of all time, James Cook was born to a humble Yorkshire family, and first stood out for his talents as a cartographer for th…
2 years, 10 months ago
Baghdad: The Arabian Nights
Episode 379
The setting for so many of the Arabian Nights, like the stories of Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, or Aladdin, Baghdad during the …
2 years, 10 months ago
Baghdad: The Golden Age
Episode 378
Baghdad was a place of fabulous sophistication and teeming multitudes, where terrible things could happen, but great wonders could also be found… Dur…
2 years, 10 months ago
Baghdad: Crossroads of the Universe
Episode 377
“No city in the world will ever rival it for prosperity...“ Baghdad, originally a Christian village in Iraq, was chosen by the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mans…
2 years, 10 months ago
Baghdad: The Forging of Islam
Episode 376
A story of great myth and of huge historical significance, the foundation of Baghdad is a fundamental episode in the development of Islam. The Umayya…
2 years, 10 months ago
Hitler and the Mitford Sisters
Episode 375
The Mitfords were the most glamorous aristocrats on the London scene in the 1920s, with at their head Diana, the most beautiful woman in London, who …
2 years, 11 months ago
The Battle of Cable Street: Fascism Defeated
Episode 374
“You will never catch Sir Oswald admitting to anti-semitism - all he does is embody it!”
Following the violent scenes at Kensington Olympia, the Briti…
2 years, 11 months ago