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Back to SearchRuth Ellis ~ From Glamour to Gallows
Episode 260
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Episode 260
Ruth Ellis didn’t just make history—she became it. The last woman to be executed in Britain, her name is forever tied to a…
2 months, 1 week ago
Freddie Scappaticci ~ Stakeknife
Episode 259
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Episode 259
Freddie Scappaticci is a man who exists in two versions at once.
In one, he is a committed member of the Provisional IRA, o…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Simo Häyhä ~ The White Death
Episode 258
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Episode 258
In the frozen forests of northern Europe, where winter silence stretches for miles and the horizon disappears into endless…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Stuart Sutcliffe ~ The Beatle Who Walked Away
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Episode 257
Before the music changes the world, there is a quieter story.
It begins in post-war Liverpool, where Stuart Sutcliffe grows…
3 months ago
Kenny Everett ~ The Man Who Broke the Airwaves
Episode 256
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Episode 256
Before the noise… before the voices, the characters, the chaos—there was a boy searching for a place to belong.
He would gr…
3 months, 1 week ago
The Strait of Hormuz ~ A History
Episode 255
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Episode 255
In the narrow gap between two rugged coastlines, where the waters of the Persian Gulf meet the open ocean, lies a passage …
3 months, 1 week ago
Hans Gamper ~ The Godfather of FC Barcelona
Episode 254
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Episode 254
A city by the sea. A restless young man. And an idea that refuses to stay small.
At the end of the 19th century, football i…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Cyrus the Great ~ The Shepherd Who Took Babylon
Episode 253
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Episode 253
Across the dry plains of ancient Persia, a new kind of ruler is rising.
Cyrus, the son of a small regional king, begins lif…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
H.G.Wells ~ Before the Machines Awoke
Episode 252
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Episode 252
Before the rockets of science fiction streaked across cinema screens… before alien invasions filled television… before tim…
4 months ago
Billy the Kid ~ Lawless Days, Short Years
Episode 251
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Episode 251
Out on the edge of a young and restless nation, where dust clung to boots and gun smoke drifted across wide New Mexico ski…
4 months, 1 week ago