Anti-government Violence in America
Leah Sottile joins me today to talk all about domestic terrorism and anti-government groups in the USA. In...
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Anti-government Violence in America
Leah Sottile joins me today to talk all about domestic terrorism and anti-government groups in the USA. In...
21:06
Today, we're talking about one of the great stories of American military history; The Doolittle Raid. In 1942 after...
25:51
Lockdown Learning: The 19th Century Medical Revolution
The 19th century saw the world in the grip of the industrial revolution, a firepower revolution on the battlefield...
31:03
The War Widow: Women of World War Two
Today's episode is from our brilliant sibling podcast, The World Wars. Author, presenter and human right advocate...
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On this day thirty years ago a ceasefire was declared bringing ground operations in the first Gulf War to an end. An...
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In today's episode of the podcast, I am joined by Katherine Pangonis a historian specialising in the medieval world...
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French Resistance Heroine Heading to the Oscars
Joining me on the podcast today are Alice Doyard and Anthony Giacchino to discuss their film Colette: The french...
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The Ghanaian president, Kwame Nkrumah, was one of Africa's most famous independence leaders. But in 1966, while he...
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The WW2 airman from Sierra Leone
Johnny Smythe was one of very few West Africans to fly with Britain's air force during WW2. Recruited in Sierra Leone...
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11km down: The world's deepest dive
Don Walsh was the first to go to the very bottom of the deepest part of the ocean in 1960 in a specially designed...
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In 2001, boats carrying hundreds of, mainly Afghan, refugees arrived on the tiny Pacific island of Nauru. This...
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Grand Central's story starts with one of the wealthiest names in U.S. history, but it also is in many ways the story...
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It was the midcentury murder that fascinated a nation and kept it glued for two years to radio, television and...
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217-Mabinogion: Bringing Home the Bacon
We’re back in the Mabinogion, where we’ll learn about the perils of bacon - and it’s not the...
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Women of the Wild West, Revisited
Calamity Jane, Belle Starr, and Annie Chambers were contemporaries of our previous subjects, the Harvey Girls and...
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Gordon Campbell reveals how the Vikings made epic voyages of discovery across the Atlantic a millennium ago ...
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367 – Move, or You Will Be Moved Part 2
Swegn Godwinson was exiled….again. Only this time... For a full transcript, go to...
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French Resistance Heroine Heading to the Oscars
Joining me on the podcast today are Alice Doyard and Anthony Giacchino to discuss their film Colette: The french...
22:31
"Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here."...
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Working in small vs large organisations
Do you prefer working in a small or a large organisation, and why? We once heard that large organisations have more...
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Brexit History Showdown with Robert Tombs
Five years after the announcement of the Brexit referendum I am joined on the podcast by Robert Tombs, author of The...
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During the Vietnam war, US commanders grew increasingly concerned about the widespread use of drugs by US troops in...
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Duncan, often called the mother of modern dance, had an unconventional upbringing, and a VERY unconventional life....
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SAVAGE, A Journey through the Opioid Epidemic is a wild, wild ride of how one gifted young person, from a good home,...
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Two stories from Russia. On the first, we catch up with the famous witch, Baba Yaga, as we follow yet another young...
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Episode 145: A Sea Change for Europe
The period of European exploration and discovery began in the 1400s as part of an effort to find new trading routes...
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Ella Fitzgerald, Revisited (and a request)
From a rough start on the streets of Harlem, to the Apollo stage, smokey clubs, years on the road and in...
01:09:23
LIAM 522 – Transform Mess Into Magic
It’s easy to look a the pain, loss, suffering, and hardships in life and call it a mess. The hardest thing we...
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Road To Strange - UFO's, Aliens & High Strangeness
Tonight, my special guest is Michael Brein returning to discuss his book The Road To Strange: UFO's, Aliens and High...
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Presenting: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Art of Public Speaking (from Cautionary Tales)
Season six of Revisionist History is coming later this spring. But meanwhile, season two of Pushkin’s great...
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