Podcasts de Historia y humanidades

HMS Wager: Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

Join Dan as he narrates the harrowing story of the HMS Wager and its crew's descent into mutiny...

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Hollywood Spy: The British WW1 Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbour

Frederick Rutland was one of Britain's finest naval pilots and a celebrated hero of the First...

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Plagues

From a plague in Athens during the Peloponnesian War in 430 BCE, to another in 540 that wiped out...

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What is Zionism?

Dan delves into the complex history of Zionism, exploring its multifaceted origins and the...

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The Trial of Charles I

In the mid-17th century, King Charles I of England was put on trial for treason against the...

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Bullets & Blood: A Hollywood Epic - Part 13

The original Hollywood epic Bullets And Blood tells the sometimes unbelievable, but true tale, of...

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Egypt and the ‘Cairo 52’

A group of men known as the ‘Cairo 52’ were arrested in Egypt in May 2001. They were on board the...

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The friendship train: Connecting India and Bangladesh

When the train service between India and Bangladesh was suspended in 1965, following war between...

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How Lake Karla in Greece was drained

Lake Karla supported hundreds of families in Thessaly, providing fish for all of the region and...

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• 7 días

The Scream: A stolen masterpiece

When Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream was stolen in 1994, an undercover operation was launched...

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• 6 días

St Teresa of Avila's severed hand

After winning the Spanish Civil War in 1939, Franco's dictatorship began. During the war, he...

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Hiroo Onoda, Japan’s last WW2 soldier to surrender

Hiroo Onoda was an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who spent nearly 30 years in the...

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Unearthed! in Spring 2024, Part 1

Time for all the things literally or figuratively unearthed in the first quarter of 2024. Part...

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John Ferriso - All in a day's work: An officer's accounts 20 years NYPD

When you are a New York City police officer you become a social worker, chauffeur, human...

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Horrible Histories: 15 years of death, poo and talking rats

Since it first hit TV screens back in 2009, Horrible Histories has brought Terry Deary and Martin...

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440. Lord Byron: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know (Part 1)

Few lives from history can have contained as many strange and exciting strands as that of Lord...

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Napoleon's Generals: The Men Behind the Myth with John Viscardo

Introduction: Explore the shadows of history in this episode with John Viscardo, host of the...

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“Space settlement and the time of perils: a critique of Thorstad” by Matthew Rendall

Given the rate at which existential risks seem to be proliferating, it's hard not to suspect...

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15th April 1989: 96 Liverpool fans killed in the Hillsborough Disaster

Ninety-six Liverpool Football Club fans died and hundreds more were injured in a crush at...

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13. Christine Granville: The Spy Who Skied In from the Cold

Thrill-seeker Christine Granville offers to ski across enemy lines and over the deadly Carpathian...

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The Mary Celeste: Ghost Ship

In 1872 the ghost ship Mary Celeste is found sailing across the Atlantic without a single crew...

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Bullets & Blood: A Hollywood Epic - Part 12

The original Hollywood epic Bullets And Blood tells the sometimes unbelievable, but true tale, of...

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• 15 días

Pinyin: The man who helped China to read and write

In 1958, a brand new writing system was introduced in China called Pinyin. It used the Roman...

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Behind the Scenes Minis: Wrong Photo and the Rules

Holly and Tracy ponder why the wrong photo has become used so frequently in mentions of Margaret...

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Season 07 Episode 18: A Dance with John Dee (Pt.1 of 4)

John Dee. Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and some say, the most influential occult...

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Episode 175: The English of Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is one of William Shakespeare’s most popular plays and one of the most popular...

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363: Slavic Folklore: One High Five Man

The story of Yaroslav is one of growing up and figuring out who you are...so you can stop...

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Pushkin Hosts Celebrate World Happiness Day

To mark International Day of Happiness and the release of the annual World Happiness Report, Dr...

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Mary Wollstonecraft: life of the week

Mary Wollstonecraft was a firebrand thinker of the Enlightenment – proposing radical ideas about...

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