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The First Australians
Episode 178
Indigenous Australians have lived on the vast continent of Australia for thousands of years - but how have they survived isolation, extreme condition…
4 years ago
The Truth About Saint Valentine
Episode 177
St. Valentine of Rome, patron saint of beekeepers and epilepsy, among many other things. But who exactly is the real St Valentine, and how has the st…
4 years ago
The Largest Roman Palace North of the Alps
Episode 176
Fishbourne Roman Palace in West Sussex was first constructed just three decades after the empire’s legions conquered Britain in the first century AD.…
4 years ago
The Origins of London
Episode 175
London is today one of the greatest cities in the world, and the story of its origins is fittingly spectacular. Founded by the Romans as Londinium in…
4 years ago
The Phoenician World
Episode 174
Imagine you are a traveller sailing to the major cities around the Mediterranean in 750 BC. You would notice a remarkable similarity in the dress, al…
4 years ago
Introducing: On Jimmy's Farm
Join celebrity farmer, ecologist and conservationist, Jimmy Doherty, on his farm as he talks to eco-experts and well-known faces about trying to live…
4 years ago
Alexander's Successors at War: The Spartan Adventurer
Episode 173
It’s here! Today is the publication date of Tristan’s first book, Alexander’s Successors at War: The Perdiccas Years. Focussing in on 323 – 320 BC, t…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Scholars of Assyria
Episode 172
Tens of thousands of clay tablets containing texts written in the ancient Cuneiform script of the Assyrian Empire have been discovered, giving us inv…
4 years, 1 month ago
Alexander the Great & The Persian Thermopylae (Part Two)
Episode 171
In this second part of Tristan’s explainer, he takes us right into the heart of the battle dubbed the Persian Thermopylae. Listen as Alexander begins…
4 years, 1 month ago
Alexander the Great & The Persian Thermopylae (Part One)
Episode 170
In January 330 BC, Alexander the Great faced one of his most difficult challenges to date. A small Persian force, entrenched in a formidable defensiv…
4 years, 1 month ago