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How did Brexit Happen? A History
Episode 1468
On the eve of the 2024 General Election, we're tackling one of the UK's most divisive topics; Brexit.
The 2016 referendum on EU membership split voter…
1 year, 8 months ago
How WWI Started
Episode 1467
110 years ago today, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire was struck down by an assassin's bullet. His death triggered one of the most destructive…
1 year, 8 months ago
Origins of the Silk Road
Episode 1466
The Silk Road was a pivotal ancient exchange network that connected the grassy steppes of Asia and the Middle East with the Western world. The passag…
1 year, 8 months ago
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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 months ago