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Introducing: Detectives Don’t Sleep - Murder in Paradise (Part 1 of 2)
Season 4
From Noiser, comes the brand-new podcast Detectives Don’t Sleep. The show takes you beyond the police tape to shadow the real detectives who worked h…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Dinosaur Rush
Season 4 Episode 77
When Edward Cope and OC Marsh began their race to identify and name new species of dinosaur in the 1870s, palaeontology was still a new discipline. B…
2 years, 11 months ago
Frida Kahlo
Season 4 Episode 76
Frida Kahlo is as much a modern icon for her personal flair as she is for her paintings. But how did her style develop, and what did she intend it to…
2 years, 11 months ago
St Patrick
Season 4 Episode 75
Though St Patrick is honoured by millions of revellers worldwide every year, few know more about him than the popular myths concerning shamrocks and …
3 years ago
The Trans-Siberian Railway
Season 4 Episode 74
The Trans-Siberian railway is the longest train line in the world, spanning 5700 miles, seven time zones, and straddling two continents.
Though today’…
3 years ago
The Bayeux Tapestry
Season 4 Episode 73
Since it was created 900 years ago, the Bayeux Tapestry has survived war, revolution and the ravages of time. This fragile piece of linen, almost sev…
3 years ago
The Real Robinson Crusoe
Season 4 Episode 72
Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe is one of the most widely published books in history. This story of a man stranded alone on an island is sa…
3 years ago
The Mona Lisa
Season 4 Episode 71
Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in the world. 500 years old and just 77x53cm in size, it is kept behind bulletproof glass i…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Partition of India
Season 4 Episode 70
In 1947, the British divided up its former colony of India into two provinces. What followed was confusion, chaos, and an unprecedented wave of secta…
3 years, 1 month ago
D.B. Cooper
Season 4 Episode 69
At approximately 8:13 p.m. on November 24th, 1971, a hijacker exited Northwest Airlines flight 305 at an altitude of 10,000 feet, carrying just a cas…
3 years, 1 month ago