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86 Remembering the Dead, The Cenotaph
Season 1 Episode 86
In this episode we are walking down Whitehall, one of London’s most famous streets, to remember the dead of the First World War.
Fabian Ware joined th…
4 years, 3 months ago
85 Your Country Needs You! World War I
Season 1 Episode 85
In this episode Horatio Herbert Kitchener, the secretary of state for war, declares, Your Country Needs You!
The First World War meant that Britain ha…
4 years, 3 months ago
84 World War I, Isle of Skye
Season 1 Episode 84
In this episode we’re travelling over the sea to Skye, an island of ancient jagged crags and rare breath-taking beauty, which feels as though it’s wa…
4 years, 4 months ago
83 Titanic, Belfast
Season 1 Episode 83
In this episode we join Neil as he steps aboard the Titanic, one of the most iconic ships in the world. For Neil this a pivotal moment in history, wh…
4 years, 4 months ago
82 Breeding Babies for Success, Cardiff
Season 1 Episode 82
In this episode, powered by their fabulous fecundity and political astuteness, the Stuart family line inherited the Scottish and English crowns and s…
4 years, 4 months ago
81 Great British Seaside, Scarborough
Season 1 Episode 81
In this episode we’re putting on our best and strolling along a stylish promenade in Scarborough, the ‘Nice of the North’ to pay homage to the Great …
4 years, 4 months ago
80 A Deadly Tug of War! Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland
Season 1 Episode 80
In this episode we stride around the Elizabethan battlements of a town held ready for war!
Berwick-upon-Tweed is a place packed to bursting with thous…
4 years, 5 months ago
79 Splitting the Atom, Rutherford building, Manchester
Season 1 Episode 79
In this episode we travel with Neil to meet the man who split the atom!
Ernest Rutherford’s father said to his children, ‘without money we have to thi…
4 years, 5 months ago
78 Great Victorian Endeavour, White Cliffs of Dover, Kent
Season 1 Episode 78
In this episode we’re in the midst of the great Victorian engineering revolution as the dream to reconnect with Europe begins.
8,000 years ago the St…
4 years, 5 months ago
77 Disaster at sea! Eyemouth, Berwickshire
Season 1 Episode 77
In this episode we set sail with Neil and find ourselves at the centre of a devastating hurricane that’s intent on destroying a proud and hardworking…
4 years, 5 months ago