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The most significant moment of the C20th - episode 92
Season 2 Episode 92
The day of days. Evil coming our way! This week Neil takes us to 1933 when Adolf Hitler, the charismatic leader of the National Socialists, begins hi…
1 year, 11 months ago
Pushing Boundaries - episode 91
Season 2 Episode 91
Heroism, bravery & reaching for the stars - George Mallory and Andrew Irvine climb Mount Everest.
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1 year, 11 months ago
The World’s Deadliest Pandemic! - episode 90
Season 2 Episode 90
Questions swirl around the most lethal pandemics in history - the Black Death killed a higher proportion of the world’s population, but the Spanish F…
1 year, 11 months ago
A Nation Revolts!
Season 2 Episode 89
A sealed train speeds through war-torn Europe to deliver revolution to Russia. This week it’s 1917 and we’re travelling with Neil to St Petersburg as…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Day When The World Turns On its Axis!
Season 2 Episode 88
Your country needs you! This week we travel with Neil and the Pals Battalions to France. It’s 7.30 a.m. on the first day of the battle of the Somme, …
2 years ago
Striking It Rich!
Season 2 Episode 87
Beyond the dreams of avarice! In this episode George Reynolds and his team of prospectors discover the world’s largest oil field, and as the black go…
2 years ago
Up, Up & Away!
Season 2 Episode 86
Two magnificent men and their flying machine change the world and our relationship to it. In this episode, it’s 1903, and we travel with Neil to Kitt…
2 years ago
A Terrifying Insight
Season 2 Episode 85
A chronic gambler who suffered epileptic seizures all his life and faced the firing squad for disseminating banned literature. This week we travel wi…
2 years ago
The Man Who Saw Light For What It Is
Season 2 Episode 84
In this episode Neil takes us to Edinburgh, Scotland in the late 1800s to meet a forgotten scientific hero, the physicist, James Clerk Maxwell.
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2 years ago
The ‘Beautiful Game’ is born!
Season 2 Episode 83
In this episode we travel with Neil to London, England as the rules of a sport, that will go viral around the world, are being set down in stone. Phi…
2 years, 1 month ago