Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNazi's Most Wanted: Assassin Hannie Schaft
Episode 1245
Known among the Nazis as "the girl with the red hair," Hannie Schaft was a resistance fighter so deadly that Adolf Hitler personally ordered her capt…
2 years, 5 months ago
Oppenheimer
Episode 1242
On a summer morning in 1945, a device known simply as 'Gadget' was detonated. An enormous explosion tore a crater into the New Mexico desert, melting…
2 years, 5 months ago
Black Boxes: Recording Airplanes' Final Moments
Episode 1241
They can survive in lava for half an hour and accelerations of 3,400 Gs. Their beacons can be detected 20,000 feet beneath the waves. Most shocking o…
2 years, 5 months ago
Prigozhin: Putin's 'Favourite'
Episode 1240
Russian history is defined by the rise and fall of favourites. Peter the Great had Menshikov, and Nicholas II had Rasputin. It's part of the architec…
2 years, 5 months ago
Napoleon
Episode 1239
Did Napoleon really come from nothing and conquer everything? The release of the trailer for Ridley Scott's new epic biopic film has created hot deba…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Picts: Scourge of Rome
Episode 1238
Emerging around the 3rd century CE and later designated official adversaries of the Roman Empire, the Picts wreaked havoc across the northern fringes…
2 years, 6 months ago
Russia & USA: The 100-Year Cold War
Episode 1237
The Cold War was defined by the antagonism between two world superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union. They relied on proxy wars, espionag…
2 years, 6 months ago
The North Pole Scandal: Frederick Cook vs Philip Gibbs
Episode 1236
In the autumn of 1909, the American explorer Frederick Cook arrived in Copenhagen, claiming to have become the first person to reach the North Pole. …
2 years, 6 months ago
Dan Explains: Operation Mincemeat
Episode 1235
On the 30th of April, 1943, the corpse of a 'Major Martin' washed up near the Spanish city of Huelva. On his body, Spanish officials found secret doc…
2 years, 6 months ago
Dan Explains: The Battle of Kursk
Episode 1234
The Battle of Kursk in July and August of 1943 was the last major attempt by the Nazis to turn the tide of the war in the East. Millions of soldiers …
2 years, 6 months ago