Podcast Episodes

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…

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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, 4 months ago

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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, 4 months ago

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Agatha Christie

Season 4 Episode 68

Retaining the title of the “Queen of Crime” to this day, Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time. Across 66 novels, 14 short-story c…

3 years, 4 months ago

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The Irish Potato Famine

Season 4 Episode 67

Between 1845 and 1852, Ireland suffered an appalling famine after the repeated failure of the potato crop, its national staple. But though caused by …

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Las Vegas

Season 4 Episode 66

Best known for its world-class casinos and lavish hotels, the desert city of Las Vegas, Nevada has a darker side, too. For decades, connections to or…

3 years, 4 months ago

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Shakespeare

Season 4 Episode 65

No single writer has shaped the way we speak and think more than William Shakespeare. Whether we’re being cruel to be kind, wearing our hearts on our…

3 years, 5 months ago

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The Christmas Truce of 1914 (Repeat)

Season 3

It’s Christmas eve, 1914. On the Western Front, a British soldier peers out across No Man’s Land. A sound catches his attention – not artillery fire,…

3 years, 5 months ago

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Pocahontas

Season 3 Episode 64

Pocahontas is probably the best known Native American in history. But the true story of her life has been eclipsed by a fictionalised version, played…

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Abraham Lincoln

Season 3 Episode 63

Abraham Lincoln’s life reads like an American folk tale. The story of a boy born into poverty, whose drive and determination saw him become the most …

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