Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDeadly bellringing and fatal bacon: grisly accidental Tudor deaths
Episode 2327
From drowning and agricultural mishaps to getting stabbed during a football match, crushed by a pig, scalded by porridge or suffocated by a fish, the…
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Beer history: everything you wanted to know
Episode 2326
Beer is one of the world’s most popular alcoholic beverages. From refreshing lagers to amber ales and creamy stouts, there’s a style for virtually ev…
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Mein Kampf: Hitler's dark vision for the future
Episode 2325
Published 100 years ago in 1925, Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf was one of the most consequential books of the 20th century. It laid out Hitler's politica…
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King vs parliament: the moment that sparked civil war
Episode 2324
Over the winter of 1641-2, England stood on the precipice of civil war. Historian and author Jonathan Healey charts how the relationship between the …
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The Mitford sisters | 2 : life of the week
Episode 2323
Like many families, the Mitfords emerged from the Second World War bearing scars. Yet as the world entered a new, uncertain era, the sisters' knack f…
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Slavery on the medieval Silk Road
Episode 2322
Slavery was a grim but omnipresent reality across the Silk Road during the Middle Ages. Speaking to Emily Briffett, Claire Taylor unpacks the complex…
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The history of women's football: everything you wanted to know
Episode 2321
Who was Nettie Honeyball? Why was the First World War a golden age for female factory teams? And why did the English Football Association move heaven…
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Live Aid: pop's Big Bang moment
Episode 2320
It may be hard to believe for those of you who can remember it, but this month marks the 40th anniversary of the iconic music extravaganza that was L…
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Exploring the medieval world with Marco Polo
Episode 2319
You may be familiar with the name of Marco Polo – the 13th-century Venetian merchant who travelled along the Silk Road, journeyed through Asia and sp…
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The Mitford Sisters | 1 : life of the week
Episode 2318
For much of the 20th century, six sisters from Britain’s minor aristocracy had a knack for making headline after scandalous headline. They were Nancy…
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