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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
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…
2 years, 10 months ago
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…
2 years, 10 months ago
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
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'
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
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
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
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
In late February 1943, Norwegian commandos were given the details of their mission, Operation Gunnerside. Their job would be to sabotage the Vemork h…
2 years, 10 months ago