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Mike Sadler: The Last SAS Soldier
Episode 1359
In this episode, we remember Mike Sadler the last of the original SAS men who recently died at the age of 103. Major Sadler was the navigator for the…
2 years, 2 months ago
Japan's Tokugawa Shogunate
Episode 1350
The Warring States period brought Japan to its knees. It was a time of turbulence and treachery, with rival warlords fighting bitterly for control of…
2 years, 2 months ago
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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months ago