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The Real Moriarty: Adam Worth
Episode 1465
Adam Worth was the quintessential criminal mastermind. He faked his own death, robbed banks in the US, stole diamonds in South Africa and amassed a f…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Rosetta Stone
Episode 1464
In 1798, the young French General Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt. After successfully taking Alexandria, he ordered the reconstruction of a fort at …
1 year, 6 months ago
John the Baptist
Episode 1463
Not long after the turn of the first millennium, a Jewish prophet emerged from a period of desert solitude in the Jordan River valley. He wore simple…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Other D-Day: The Eastern Front
Episode 1461
Veteran broadcaster and historian Jonathan Dimbleby joins Dan to explain how Hitler's plans in the East went disastrously wrong.
2 weeks after the D-D…
1 year, 6 months ago
Dan's History Heroes: Britain's Greatest Soldier, Part 2
Episode 1460
Please note that this episode contains some explicit language.
This is the story of Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, Britain's most extraordinary soldier. …
1 year, 6 months ago
Dan's History Heroes: Britain's Greatest Soldier, Part 1
Episode 1459
This is the story of Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, Britain's most extraordinary soldier. The one-handed, one-eyed, walking stick-wielding war hero foug…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Rise and Fall of the Klu Klux Klan
Episode 1458
With a sinister hierarchy of "grand wizards" and "dragons," hooded Klansmen concealed their identities as they unleashed a reign of terror on Black A…
1 year, 6 months ago
Civil War Rivals: Robert E. Lee vs Ulysses Grant
Episode 1457
100 years ago, in the spring of 1864, the Overland Campaign ignited a ferocious clash between two titans of US military history: Ulysses S. Grant, th…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Early Years of the British Empire
Episode 1456
The British weren't always imperial global players with an empire of viceroys, redcoats and industrialised trade systems. The early years of the Brit…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Challenger Disaster
Episode 1455
On January 28, 1986, the nation watched in horror as the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded just 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew memb…
1 year, 6 months ago