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Back to SearchRevolution in Iran: Death in the Desert (Part 4)
Episode 639
How did America respond after the American Embassy in Tehran was seized, and American citizens taken hostage? Would the hostages survive? And, what b…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Revolution in Iran: The Hostage Crisis (Part 3)
Episode 638
Why and how was the American Embassy stormed in 1979, at the height of the Iranian Revolution? Did America respond when large numbers of American civ…
7 months ago
Revolution in Iran: Rise of the Ayatollah (Part 2)
Episode 637
What set off the final uprisings of the Iranian Revolution, against the last Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi? Would President Jimmy Carter and Am…
7 months ago
Revolution in Iran: Fall of the Shah (Part 1)
Episode 636
Why did the Iranian Revolution erupt in 1979? What was the nature of the relationship between President Carter and the ostentatious Shah Mohammad Rez…
7 months, 1 week ago
Joan of Arc: For Fear of the Flames (Part 4)
Episode 635
What were the harsh conditions of Joan of Arc’s imprisonment, at the hands of her English captors? How did Joan’s trial unfold, and with what was she…
7 months, 1 week ago
Joan of Arc: Heroine in Chains (Part 3)
Episode 634
How was Charles VII, with the help of Joan of Arc, able to fight his way to Reims to be crowned in the ancient seat of French kings? Why was she able…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Joan of Arc: Saviour of France (Part 2)
Episode 633
How did a young, uneducated peasant girl dressed in men’s clothing, Joan of Arc, plan to crown the son of the mad and feeble Charles VI, the King of …
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Joan of Arc: Warrior Maid (Part 1)
Episode 632
What are the origins of the legendary Joan of Arc, the famous French maid who saved France from the English during the Hundred Years’ War, dressed al…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Wagner: LIVE at the Royal Albert Hall
Episode 631
Was Richard Wagner a revolutionary artist who reshaped music forever, or an egotists mired in scandal, whose dangerous ideas were inseparable from th…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Tchaikovsky: LIVE at the Royal Albert Hall
Episode 630
What are the complex origins of Russia’s most renowned composer, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky? What inner conflicts and private contradictions lay behind…
7 months, 4 weeks ago