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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…
3 years, 2 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…
3 years, 2 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…
3 years, 2 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.…
3 years, 2 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…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Downfall and Prison (Part 2)
Episode 342
It’s 1895, and with the libel case brought against the Marquess of Queensbury having collapsed, Oscar Wilde is now arrested and charged with committi…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Sex and Scandal (Part 1)
Episode 341
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” As his most popular work, "The Importance of Being Earnest", hints at, Oscar Wilde’s life was a complica…
3 years, 2 months ago
Hadrian and Antinous
Episode 340
A mysterious death on the Nile, an unconventional love affair, a Roman-Greek hero turned God - the story of Hadrian and Antinous is full of intrigue.…
3 years, 2 months ago
Ireland: The Easter Rising, 1916 (Part 4)
Episode 339
The Easter Rising began in Dublin's General Post Office on Easter Monday, 24th April 1916, with Patrick Pearse’s dramatic proclamation of the Irish R…
3 years, 2 months ago
Ireland: Home Rule, Mutiny - and Civil War? (Part 3)
Episode 338
The year is 1912. The bitter arguments about Home Rule for Ireland are reaching boiling point. But with Ulster in uproar, the Tories encouraging muti…
3 years, 3 months ago