Podcast Episodes

Captain Cook

Season 6 Episode 193

Through his voyages in the eighteenth century, Captain Cook’s work as an explorer contributed to startling advances in scientific knowledge, and mapp…

10 months, 2 weeks ago

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The East India Company

Season 6 Episode 192

Over 400 years ago, a bold commercial venture was established to allow an ambitious group of English merchants to send ships halfway around the world…

10 months, 3 weeks ago

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The Shroud of Turin

Season 6 Episode 191

The Shroud of Turin is a length of linen, believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus of Nazareth. Its most famous feature is the blurry imprint…

11 months ago

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Arthur Conan Doyle

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…

11 months, 1 week ago

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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…

11 months, 1 week ago

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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…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

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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,…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

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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,…

11 months, 4 weeks ago

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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…

1 year ago

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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…

1 year ago

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