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Season 6 Episode 190
Arthur Conan Doyle, a doctor, war volunteer, campaigner for justice, politician, and believer in the spirit world, created one of literature’s most f…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Introducing: Fidel Castro - Real Dictators
Season 6
This is a taster episode of the Fidel Castro story. To hear episodes 2-10, head over to Real Dictators and hit follow.
Fidel Castro - a revolutionar…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
The Spanish Flu
Season 6 Episode 189
The influenza pandemic of 1918-20 infected about one-third of the world’s population at the time, killing at least 50 million people. Occurring durin…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
The Manhattan Project
Season 6 Episode 188
The Manhattan Project was the codename for the US government’s top secret programme to develop the first atomic bomb. At the height of World War Two,…
9 months ago
The First Emperor of China
Season 6 Episode 187
In the third century BC, China was a land fractured by war - a patchwork of rival kingdoms struggling for dominance. Out of this chaos rose a single,…
9 months, 1 week ago
Anne Frank
Season 6 Episode 186
Anne Frank is one of the world’s most famous writers, yet she didn’t live long enough to see her work published. At the age of thirteen, Anne was a n…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Alfred Hitchcock
Season 6 Episode 185
Alfred Hitchcock was one of the most celebrated film directors of all time. In a career that spanned six decades, he produced more than 50 films, inc…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Gaudi (Bonus Episode)
Season 6
In a long life, spanning the late 19th and early 20th century, Antoni Gaudi created some of history’s best-loved architecture. From his early lamppos…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
The Romanovs
Season 6 Episode 184
Throughout their centuries-long dynasty, the Romanovs oversaw the transformation of Russia from a fragmented medieval state, into a vast empire. Desp…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
The Anglo Saxons
Season 6 Episode 183
The Anglo-Saxon period, also known as the ‘Dark Ages’ stretched from the withdrawal of Roman forces in 410 AD to the conquest of England by William o…
10 months ago