Podcast Episodes

Jacques Cousteau

Season 6 Episode 239

Co-inventor of the Aqua-Lung, Captain Jacques Cousteau opened the ocean to the public like no one before. An explorer, filmmaker and environmentalist…

7 hours ago

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Charlemagne

Season 6 Episode 238

Charlemagne remains one of the towering figures of European history. He created for himself a vast territory that covered most of modern-day France a…

1 week ago

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The Golden Age of Railways

Season 6 Episode 237

In the early nineteenth century, engineers discovered that steam power and iron rails could be combined to move people and goods faster than any hors…

2 weeks ago

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The Haitian Revolution

Season 6 Episode 236

The first and only successful uprising of enslaved people to establish a nation-state, the Haitian Revolution began in the French colony of Saint-Dom…

3 weeks ago

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The Real James Bond

Season 6 Episode 235

In the early years of the twentieth century, long before James Bond stepped onto the page, one man was at work as a new kind of spy. He crossed borde…

4 weeks ago

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The Spanish Civil War

Season 6 Episode 234

The story of Franco’s rise to power and the painful, repressive regime he oversaw is fundamentally interlinked with that of the Spanish Civil War. A …

1 month ago

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Sir Francis Drake

Season 6 Episode 233

Sir Francis Drake is most famous for his role in defeating the Armada of 1588 and saving England from a Spanish invasion. By that point in his life, …

1 month, 1 week ago

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Bob Dylan

Season 6 Episode 232

The American singer-songwriter and musician Bob Dylan is one of the most important recording artists on the planet. A cultural icon, his work has had…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

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The American Civil War (Part Two of Two)

Season 6 Episode 231

In the decades since the United States declared their independence from Britain, the question of slavery had become increasingly divisive. As the nat…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

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The American Civil War (Part One of Two).

Season 6 Episode 230

The American Civil War started with a single, explosive question: could a nation built on slavery survive without it? Several Southern states chose t…

2 months ago

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