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The Chinese Cultural Revolution
The Chinese Cultural Revolution

By the early 1960s, Chairman Mao Zedong's campaign to modernise Communist China had ended in disaster. Known as the Great Leap Forward, it resulted i…

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Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams

One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Samuel Adams was a political force of nature. Stacy Schiff tells Don how Adams, fuelled by disconte…

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The Psychiatric Hospital that Fought Fascism
The Psychiatric Hospital that Fought Fascism

There are descriptions of suffering early in this episode that some listeners may find distressing.


As hospitals and institutions across the European…

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The Women Who Organised the Battle of Britain
The Women Who Organised the Battle of Britain

In a suburb of North-West London, among housing estates and residential streets lies a secret bunker, you may never have heard of it but it's one of …

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Uniting Europe After WWII
Uniting Europe After WWII

Count Coudenhove-Kalergi was one of the most influential 20th Century European thinkers that you've never heard of. He was a pioneer of European inte…

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The Making of 'All Quiet on the Western Front'
The Making of 'All Quiet on the Western Front'

All Quiet on the Western Front is the 2022 film adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's famous anti-war novel. Told from the German perspective, it pres…

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The Last Nuremberg Prosecutor
The Last Nuremberg Prosecutor

102 year old Ben Ferencz is the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials and a direct witness to the horrors of the Nazi death camps. Born…

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Lady Hamilton: Muse and Nelson's Mistress
Lady Hamilton: Muse and Nelson's Mistress

The Kim Kardashian of Georgian England; she was a young housemaid who became one of the most famous socialites in the Western world and stole the hea…

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The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript
The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript

Matt Lewis continues his Mystery Month on Gone Medieval with another tantalising enigma of the Middle Ages - possibly the most mysterious manuscript …

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Sabotage, Nazis and the Atomic Bomb: Operation Gunnerside
Sabotage, Nazis and the Atomic Bomb: Operation Gunnerside

In late February 1943, Norwegian commandos were given the details of their mission, Operation Gunnerside. Their job would be to sabotage the Vemork h…

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