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Conspiracy Revisited: The JFK assassination – O...
28 min
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Clotilda: the last slave ship to America
Hannah Durkin tells the story of the survivors of Clotilda, the last ship to transport enslaved people from Africa to America
33 min
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History behind the headlines: the Bengal famine
Hannah Skoda and Rana Mitter are joined by journalist Kavita Puri to discuss her new series on the Bengal famine
37 min
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Spying in the Troubles: the murky world of doub...
Henry Hemming explores how a huge intelligence operation was carried out in Northern Ireland by Britain's secret services during the Troubles
42 min
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Welsh mythology: everything you wanted to know
Mark Rees answers listener questions on the extraordinary stories and mystical creatures found in Welsh legends and myth
48 min
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Tying the knot: 500 years of wedded bliss and m...
Legal historian Rebecca Probert explores the history of marriage in England and Wales over the past 500 years
41 min
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Conspiracy Revisited: The JFK assassination – 9...
39 min
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The British empire's divisive legacy
Sathnam Sanghera considers how we can have a constructive national conversation about Britain’s imperial past
33 min
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Saladin: life of the week
Jonathan Phillips details the astronomic rise of Saladin – who went head to head with crusading forces and was able to reclaim the holy city of Jerusalem
51 min
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Back in the USSR: the Soviet Sixties
Robert Hornsby reveals how the 1960s was a defining, yet often overlooked, era in Soviet history
42 min
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Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: everything you wanted to ...
Joanna Story answers listener questions about the Anglo-Saxon kings and kingdoms
39 min
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Dinosaurs: a Victorian obsession
Michael Taylor reveals how the discovery of dinosaur bones challenged ideas about natural history and religion in Victorian Britain
37 min
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Tiger Tamer | 6. battling against Bovril
David Musgrove explores what the life of celebrity pedestrian Bob Carlisle can reveal about a Victorian revolution in athleticism, transport, advertising and consumer goods
30 min
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How was Elizabeth I shaped by her childhood?
Dr Nicola Tallis looks back at Elizabeth I's youth to explore how the famous monarch's early years shaped her later life
24 min
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Joan of Arc: life of the week
Anne Curry traces the story of Joan of Arc, the medieval peasant girl who took war-torn France by storm
50 min
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Leftovers: how our ancestors battled food waste
Eleanor Barnett reveals how people in the past tackled food waste, from the Tudor almoner to the rag-and-bone man
26 min
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WW1's eastern front: everything you wanted to know
Nick Lloyd answers listener questions on Germany and Austria-Hungary's bloody clash with the Russian empire from 1914–18
37 min
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Eric 'Winkle' Brown: Britain's most extraordina...
Paul Beaver charts the remarkable life of Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown – a death-defying Second World War pilot
29 min
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Tiger Tamer | 5. crazy about wheelbarrows
David Musgrove revisits the great wheelbarrow craze of 1886-7, alongside some of the strangest other crazes to grip Victorian Britain
24 min
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Will the real Jesus please stand up?
Catherine Nixey reveals how the Christian story was transformed in its first few centuries
24 min
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Mary Wollstonecraft: life of the week
Bee Rowlatt explores the life and legacy of 18th-century firebrand, feminist and philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft
38 min
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An obscenity trial that shocked Victorian Britain
Michael Meyer reveals how an 1877 court case revolving around birth control – and the fearless woman at the heart of it – scandalised the nation
35 min
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The Capetians: everything you wanted to know
Justine Firnhaber-Baker answers listener questions on the long-standing and influential medieval French dynasty
52 min
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Lothar II vs Theutberga: a marriage scandal tha...
The Carolingian king Lothar II was embroiled in a scandal that destroyed his reign and ended his kingdom – Professor Charles West shares the story
31 min
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Tiger Tamer | 4. celebrity pedestrian
David Musgrove travels back to the jeopardy and exhilaration of the Victorian circus, to explore Bob Carlisle’s hair-raising career as a clown and tiger tamer
33 min