Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
The Plague of Athens
Episode 1355
In 430 BC, in the midst of the Peloponnesian War, the powerful city-state of Athens was struck down by a disastrous plague. Athenians fell sick with …
2 years ago
3. Thomas Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander
Episode 1353
3/3. After a meteoric rise to fame, Cochrane finds himself in front of a court and stripped of his titles for fraud on the London Stock Exchange. Kno…
2 years ago
2. Thomas Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander
Episode 1352
2/3. Thomas Cochrane and his crew of the HMS Imperieuse embark on their greatest and most audacious scheme yet; Cochrane leads a flotilla of burning …
2 years ago
The WW2 Witch Trial of Hellish Nell
Episode 1354
What made a working class woman from Edinburgh become such a threat to British intelligence services during the Second World War, that they tried her…
2 years ago
1. Thomas Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander
Episode 1351
Dan tells a story as dramatic, unlikely and exciting as any ever penned by an author about one of Britain's greatest sailors. Thomas Lord Cochrane wa…
2 years ago
The Romanovs
Episode 1349
The Romanov family were the first imperial dynasty to rule Russia, reigning from the early seventeenth century until the Russian Revolution of 1917. …
2 years ago
Fall of the Aztec Empire
Episode 1348
The Aztec Empire was a large and sophisticated one, stretching at its height from the Pacific coast to the Gulf of Mexico. But in August 1521, after …
2 years ago
England & Portugal: The Oldest Alliance in the World
Episode 1347
If you’re enjoying a glass of port during the festive period, you have the world’s oldest treaty to thank.
Winston Churchill once described the Anglo-…
2 years ago
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Episode 1346
In August, 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie led a rebellion that brought the Jacobite cause closer to seizing the throne than any other. He had landed wit…
2 years ago
Pythagoras' Utopia
Episode 1345
What comes to your mind when you think of Pythagoras, the ancient Greek polymath? Some might think of the Pythagorean theorem, a foundational princip…
2 years ago