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The WW2 nurses who saved lives in the skies
36 min
2
King Harold: tragic hero of the English
37 min
3
Ancient goddesses: love, violence and ecstatic ...
26 min
4
Life and death in the Viking age
34 min
5
D-Day’s secret hero: the true story behind Pres...
39 min
6
Why we believe in the supernatural
28 min
7
How to build the ultimate medieval castle
36 min
8
Richard III's traumatic childhood
28 min
9
How Ghosts makes history funny – without gettin...
22 min
10
America's anti-Chinese laws: a forgotten history
25 min
11
An African king in the Roman empire
32 min
12
Everyday life in a slave trading town
26 min
13
From plague 'searchers' to strawberry birthmark...
30 min
14
The country house at war
23 min
15
The pioneering surgeon who stood up to Rasputin
44 min
16
The stolen Native Americans who shaped US history
44 min
17
Being disabled in the medieval era
41 min
18
Vanilla: a far from ordinary history
33 min
19
Ancient explosives and the philosopher's stone:...
32 min
20
North Korea's religious dictators
42 min
21
Inside Venice’s Jewish ghetto
43 min
22
WW2's bloody battle for Arakan
33 min
23
The Bayeux Tapestry: secrets of the stitchers
28 min
24
How Henry VII seized – and kept – the crown
45 min
25
The Soviet spy who couldn't love
38 min