Podcast Episodes

The Watergate Scandal

Season 2 Episode 28

When five men are caught inside a Washington DC office block in June 1972, it’s noted in police records simply as a ‘burglary’. So how does this bung…

4 years, 2 months ago

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The Suffragettes

Season 2 Episode 27

While British women had been requesting the right to vote for decades, in the early 1900s, the Suffragettes refused to take no for an answer. But des…

4 years, 3 months ago

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The Berlin Wall

Season 2 Episode 26

On the border between the Western world and the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall was a symbol of the Cold War. Starting out as a simple barbed wire fenc…

4 years, 3 months ago

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The Ottoman Empire

Season 2 Episode 25

For over six hundred years the Ottoman Empire ruled swathes of the Middle East, North Africa, and Southern Europe. As an Islamic superpower centred o…

4 years, 3 months ago

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The Underground Railroad

Season 2 Episode 24

The Underground Railroad helped up to 100,000 enslaved people to freedom. It was America’s first civil rights movement, operated by Black and white p…

4 years, 3 months ago

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Apollo 13

Season 2 Episode 23

April 13th, 1970. 200,000 miles from Earth, three astronauts are approaching lunar orbit when they hear a noise. Deep in the spacecraft, a tiny wirin…

4 years, 4 months ago

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Featuring: We Have Ways of Making You Talk - The Dambusters Raid of 1943

Season 2 Episode 25

Short History Of… will be back as usual on Monday, but today we are dropping an episode by our friends at We Have Ways of Making You Talk podcast. Th…

4 years, 4 months ago

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Bonnie and Clyde

Season 2 Episode 22

Forged by the Great Depression, Bonnie and Clyde became icons of lawlessness, thrilling and shocking America with their crime sprees and doomed roman…

4 years, 4 months ago

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Ernest Shackleton

Season 1 Episode 21

Antarctica, October 1915. 1200 miles from civilisation, Ernest Shackleton watches from the ice as his ship finally crumples. To survive, he and his 2…

4 years, 5 months ago

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The Christmas Truce

Season 1 Episode 20

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,…

4 years, 5 months ago

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