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The Muppets Take Moscow!
Car bombings, assassinations and a military takeover: these are just some of the things American TV producer Natasha Lance Rogoff and her team faced …
2 years, 11 months ago
Pre-historic Women
For years we've understood that in the prehistoric hunter-gather world, the men did the hunting and the women did the gathering. Prehistoric man went…
2 years, 11 months ago
Dan, The Skeletons and The Battle of Waterloo
Dan Snow’s History Hit hits the road to Belgium and the Waterloo Battlefield to see the soldier’s bones found in an attic earlier this month.
The Bat…
2 years, 11 months ago
Medieval Leaders and Queens: Aethelfled, Hildegard & Jadwiga.
Art and cultural historian Dr Janina Ramirez joins Dan on today's episode to tell the stories of three incredible medieval women: Aethelfled, a warri…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Real Casanova
Content Warning This episode contains adult themes and language that may not be suitable for children.
On this special network crossover episode we're…
2 years, 11 months ago
Robert Harris: Writing Oblivion and The Murder of Charles I
It's 1660 and General Edward Whalley and his son-in-law board a ship bound for the New World. They're on the run, wanted for the murder of King Charl…
2 years, 11 months ago
Sex
250 million years ago the armour-plated Placoderm fish invented the act of sex as we know it. Hubba Hubba. Dive into the historical sack as we go in …
2 years, 11 months ago
The End of Stalingrad
Stalingrad is one of the most titanic and totemic battles of the Second World War. Millions were killed, the city itself was utterly shattered by fig…
2 years, 11 months ago
Normans, Romans and Victorians: History of England's New Forest
Where can you find an Iron Age fort, Roman kilns, trees built for Nelson's navy and the hunting lodge of William the Conqueror? In the place that Dan…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Truth About Area 51
Fake moon landings, aliens and secret weapons; conspiracy theories about Area 51 abound but what exactly is it, and do we know anything about it with…
2 years, 11 months ago