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Back to SearchH. Rider Haggard - King Solomon's Mines
Season 1 Episode 23
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Before Indiana Jones ever cracked a whip, there was Allan Quatermain—big-game hunter, reluctant hero, and the original explorer of da…
7 months ago
The Mitfords Revisited: Saints, Sinners, and Scandal
Season 1 Episode 101
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Last year, our deep-dive into the wild world of the Mitford sisters ruffled a few aristocratic feathers and sparked a torrent of list…
7 months ago
Æthelstan - The First King of England
Season 1 Episode 144
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Eleven hundred years ago, a young king stood in Kingston upon Thames and was crowned, and in that moment, something entirely new bega…
7 months, 1 week ago
The Mitford Sisters - A Frivolity of Evil
Season 1 Episode 10
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They were born into privilege, raised for balls and debutante seasons—but the Mitford Sisters would become something far more dangero…
7 months, 1 week ago
Kipling’s Shadow: The Dark Wisdom of 'If'
Season 1 Episode 68
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Rudyard Kipling’s If— and The Two-Sided Man aren’t just poems—they’re survival guides wrapped in verse. Fierce, honest, and deeply hu…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Inside Hitler’s U-Boat War
Season 1 Episode 143
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In this episode of Rearview Mirror Chronicles, we descend into one of the most dangerous worlds of the Second World War, the claustro…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
How Christianity Conquered Rome
Season 1 Episode 142
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How did a tiny movement centred on a crucified Jewish teacher grow into the dominant religion of the Roman world? In this episode of …
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Konfrontasi - Malaysia's Secret War
Season 1 Episode 141
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Konfrontasi was the war that refused to call itself a war.
In the 1960s, President Sukarno denounced the creation of Malaysia and laun…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
The Trial and Execution of Charles I
Season 1 Episode 140
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In January 1649, something happened that had never happened before.
A reigning monarch was put on trial by his own people.
In this epis…
8 months ago
Football in No Man’s Land: Christmas 1914
Season 1 Episode 139
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In December 1914, in the frozen mud between the trenches, something astonishing happened.
The war paused.
On the Western Front, beneath…
8 months, 1 week ago