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Lost on Mount Everest: The Mystery of Mallory and Irvine
Episode 1454
Dan unravels the mystery surrounding George Mallory and Andrew Irvine's daring attempt to conquer Mount Everest in 1924 - a feat that could have made…
1 year, 7 months ago
Inside North Korea
Episode 1453
With closed borders, a totalitarian regime, electricity blackouts and widespread poverty, North Korea is a brutal place to survive; even looking at a…
1 year, 7 months ago
Pegasus Bridge: The First Assault of D-Day
Episode 1452
Just after midnight on the 6th of June, 1944, 181 British glider-borne infantry crashed to earth in the Normandy countryside. They clambered out of t…
1 year, 7 months ago
Las Vegas & Atomic Tourism
Episode 1451
In the 1950s, the US government conducted a series of nuclear bomb tests in the Mojave desert, right next door to Las Vegas. Tourists flocked to the …
1 year, 7 months ago
Julius Caesar's Sex Life
Episode 1450
"I came. I saw. I conquered".
Perhaps the most famous Julius Caesar quote of all time. But after hearing all about his bedroom antics, it takes on a s…
1 year, 7 months ago
D-Day: The Deception that Made it Possible
Episode 1449
Please note that this episode contains explicit language.
On the 29th of May, 1944, less than a week before D-Day, General George S. Patton gave a rip…
1 year, 7 months ago
D-Day: The Land Invasion
Episode 1448
Dan and military historian Stephen Fischer record a moment by moment play of the dramatic and bloody first crucial hour and a half of D-day, as it ha…
1 year, 7 months ago
D-Day: The Air Invasion
Episode 1447
In the second episode of our D-Day series, we look to the skies. In the build-up to Operation Overlord, thousands of Allied pilots in heavy bombers a…
1 year, 7 months ago
D-Day: The Sea Invasion
Episode 1446
This is the often forgotten chapter of the D-Day story.
To begin our series for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, we turn to the massive nav…
1 year, 7 months ago
Mutiny on the Rising Sun: Smuggling in Colonial America
Episode 1445
This is the story of a bloody mutiny aboard the Boston-based schooner, the Rising Sun. The ship had been on a routine smuggling voyage before it was …
1 year, 7 months ago