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WWII Britain: The Home Guard's Silent Assassins
Episode 1267
WWII Britain's Home Guard wasn't a bumbling dad's army but in fact included factions of highly trained silent killers and spies hiding out in secret …
2 years, 4 months ago
Chairman Mao
Episode 1266
Leader of the Chinese Communist Party from 1949 until his death in 1976, Chairman Mao reshaped the nation's course of history, founding the People's …
2 years, 4 months ago
Elizabeth I's War with Ireland
Episode 1265
Queen Elizabeth I, Gloriana, victor over the Spanish and patron of the arts ushered in a Golden Age for England. But she was also Queen of Ireland, a…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Ancient Greek Computer: The Antikythera Mechanism
Episode 1264
In the recent Indiana Jones: The Dial of Destiny movie, the Antikythera Mechanism is used for time travel but in reality it was actually more of a ce…
2 years, 4 months ago
Battle of Gettysburg
Episode 1262
The first three days of July 1863 saw the bloodiest single battle of the American Civil War. This clash between the Unionist and Confederate armies q…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Rise of the Taliban
Episode 1261
Is it possible that the Taliban of today are more fanatical than before? American and Coalition troops recently fought a bitter, 20-year war against …
2 years, 4 months ago
Scottish Clans
Episode 1260
It is believed clans started to emerge in Scotland around 1100AD and were originally the descendants of kings – if not of demigods from Irish mytholo…
2 years, 4 months ago
Archimedes and the Siege of Syracuse
Episode 1259
Dan tells the story of Archimedes, the ancient Greek inventor whose weapons of war protected the town of Syracuse from a Roman army. The Romans laid …
2 years, 5 months ago
Surviving Hitler and Stalin
Episode 1257
Lord Daniel Finkelstein recounts stories from his parents' remarkable lives. His mother Mirjam Wiener survived the Nazi concentration camps, and his …
2 years, 5 months ago
Genghis Khan
Episode 1256
Genghis Khan roughly translates to 'Universal Ruler', a fitting name for the most famous nomadic conqueror to have ever lived. He was born as Temüjin…
2 years, 5 months ago