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Female spies who forged the CIA
Episode 1575
Many of the agents who played a crucial role in establishing the organisation now known as the Central Intelligence Agency – or CIA – were women. And…
3 years, 1 month ago
Prehistoric cave art: everything you want to know
Episode 1574
The palaeolithic period stretches across a vast period of space and time, but if there’s one thing that really brings the prehistoric era to life for…
3 years, 1 month ago
"A secret Nazi plot to kill the ‘Big Three’
Episode 1573
What would have happened if Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt had all been assassinated at the height of World War Two? Speaki…
3 years, 1 month ago
Wild places & wild people: a short history of common land
Episode 1572
Common land – land which wasn’t settled or farmed – used to exist right across Britain, and provided a vital shared resource for local communities. H…
3 years, 1 month ago
The forgotten years that forged Wales
Episode 1571
In Welsh history, the period that lies between the medieval era of resistance to English occupation, and the rapid industrialisation of the 18th and …
3 years, 1 month ago
How six women programmed the world’s first modern computer
Episode 1570
During the Second World War, six talented mathematicians were brought together to make history. These women had one mission: to program the world’s f…
3 years, 1 month ago
Tattoos: a 5,000 year history
Episode 1569
Throughout history, people have got tattooed for a huge range of reasons, whether religious devotion, artistic expression, or to demonstrate cultural…
3 years, 1 month ago
Railway history: everything you wanted to know
Episode 1568
What was it like to travel on the earliest trains, before open carriages, and even toilets? When was the first rail accident? And how did railways tr…
3 years, 1 month ago
Forgotten histories of the Holocaust
Episode 1567
According to historian Dan Stone, popular understanding of the Holocaust, in all of its horror and complexity, is often incomplete or fractured. Spea…
3 years, 1 month ago
An audacious kidnapping in 1970s Paris
Episode 1566
On 23 January 1978, Baron Édouard-Jean Empain was snatched from the streets of Paris, in an audacious kidnapping attempt. Before long, a ransom of 80…
3 years, 2 months ago