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Season 1 Episode 67
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What if history didn’t have to end the way it did?
What ifs, those tantalising counterfactuals, are more than thought experiments. The…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sea Wolf Rising (Part Three)
Season 1 Episode 66
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In the fading light of empire, Lord Thomas Cochrane stood not as a relic—but as a scar that refused to fade.
Once branded a traitor, i…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sea Wolf Rising (Part Two)
Season 1 Episode 65
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It was nightfall when hell was unleashed on the sea.
In 1809, Thomas Lord Cochrane—brilliant, reckless, and already feared—led a fleet…
1 year, 8 months ago
Sea Wolf Rising (Part One)
Season 1 Episode 64
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Thomas Cochrane didn’t climb the ranks—he tore through them.
By 1801, barely out of his twenties, he commanded the tiny HMS Speedy—a 1…
1 year, 9 months ago
Pompeii: Where the Living Turned to Stone
Season 1 Episode 63
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It happened in an instant. A roar from the earth, the sky turned black—and then silence.
The ancient city of Pompeii was buried alive …
1 year, 9 months ago
The Rosetta Stone - Cipher of the Dead
Season 1 Episode 62
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In the scorched dust of a ruined Egyptian fort in 1799, French soldiers unearthed a slab of dark stone—black, cracked, and carved wit…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Crown’s Forgotten Ghost
Season 1 Episode 61
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Aphra Behn wasn’t just the first Englishwoman to earn a living with her pen—she was a spy, a subversive, and a survivor in a world th…
1 year, 9 months ago
Rubicon: The Death of the Republic (Part Two)
Season 1 Episode 60
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The river was shallow. The sky was silent. And then, Caesar crossed.
Behind him, his legions moved like fate itself—disciplined, cold,…
1 year, 9 months ago
Rubicon: The Death of the Republic (Part One)
Season 1 Episode 59
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The year is 49 BC, and Rome is rotting from within—gripped by corruption, paranoia, and the brittle illusion of order.
On the banks of…
1 year, 10 months ago
Echoes in the Silence: Poetry for When the World Feels Heavy
Season 1 Episode 58
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Keith has a cold this week (cue the tiny violins), so the deep-dive history episode will have to wait. But don’t worry—he’s not leavi…
1 year, 10 months ago