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Alexander the Great's Sex Life
Episode 70
Did Alexander the Great and the Queen of the Amazons really have sex for 13 days solid? What do we know about his male lovers? And how did his sex li…
3 years, 10 months ago
Trash
Episode 69
From reality television to theatre productions to foreign goods, the word trash has a long history of being used to deride things that are thought to…
3 years, 10 months ago
Rochester: The Restoration's Filthiest Poet with Neil Gaiman
Episode 68
He kidnapped his wife and got locked up in the Tower of London. He slept around King Charles II’s court, and drunk to excess for years before dying f…
3 years, 10 months ago
Banned History
Episode 67
How much did Britain and its allies know about the Holocaust? Could the Bengal Famine of 1943 have been helped? And was Elizabeth I really the Virgin…
3 years, 10 months ago
Sex Myths
Episode 66
Why were the ovaries once seen as inverted testes? What words might you use if you were trying to describe a condition 'down there' to your doctor? A…
3 years, 10 months ago
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Episode 65
*This episode contains very strong language and adult content*
A semi autobiographical account from a conflicted man? An ode to a wife’s sexual desire…
3 years, 10 months ago
The History of the Clitoris
Episode 64
It’s so important that it’s been ‘discovered’ at least twice, but what is the clitoris and why has it previously been so hard to find?
The clitoris is…
3 years, 10 months ago
Mussolini's Favourite Daughter
Episode 63
What do we know about the people who shared the surname Mussolini with the Italian fascist dictator?
Edda Mussolini may have been Benito’s daughter, b…
3 years, 10 months ago
Tattoos
Episode 62
George V, Otzi the Iceman, possibly Winston Churchill and … Kate Lister. What do all these people have in common?
They have tattoos. As do a fifth of …
3 years, 10 months ago
Heartthrobs
Episode 61
What makes a heartthrob? Is he brooding, flamboyant or a bad boy? And what qualities translate to sex symbol status in society?
Which men have made th…
3 years, 11 months ago