History Cafe
By Jon Rosebank, Penelope Middelboe
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True history storytelling at the History Café. Join BBC Historian Jon Rosebank & HBO, BBC & C4 script and series editor Penelope Middelboe as we give history a new take. Drop in to the History Café weekly on Wednesdays to give old stories a refreshing new brew. 90+ ever-green stand-alone episodes and building...
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#126 'Seven head of women' - Ep 3 Columbus - legend and loser
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Aug 05, 2026 |
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#125 The torrid affair - Ep 2 Columbus - legend and loser
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Jul 29, 2026 |
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#124 Columbus was invented in 1777 - Ep 1 Columbus - legend and loser
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Jul 22, 2026 |
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# 40 Henry VIII: Pope Clement, Katherine, Anne and Florence
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Jul 15, 2026 |
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# 52 Anne Boleyn - Henry VIII's MacGuffin
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Jul 08, 2026 |
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# 51 Marrying Anne Boleyn, the best of a bad job - Ep 6 Henry VIII: the king, his wife, his lover, the French
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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# 50 No more menage à trois - Ep 5 Henry VIII: the king, his wife, his lover, the French
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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# 49 Like an episode of the Borgias - Ep 4 Henry VIII: the king, his wife, his lover, the French
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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# 46 Missions Impossible - Ep 3 Henry VIII: the king, his wife, his lover, the French
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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# 45 The Jilting of Princess Mary - Ep 2 Henry VIII: the king, his wife, his lover, the French
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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#44 Anne Boleyn did not hold out on Henry - Ep 1 Henry VIII: the king, his wife, his lover, the French
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May 27, 2026 |
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#39 Newton and the Occult - Ep 2 Was Newton the last of the magicians?
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May 20, 2026 |
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#38 Newton the Alchemist - Ep 1 Was Newton the last of the magicians?
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May 13, 2026 |
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#123 Pissing on bagpipes - Ep 5 Shakespeare and the Groundlings
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May 06, 2026 |
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#122 Queen Elizabeth's Toyboy - Ep 4 Shakespeare and the Groundlings
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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#121 The naked King Lear - Ep 3 Shakespeare and the Groundlings
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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#120 'Hang, beg, starve' - Ep 2 Shakespeare and the Groundlings
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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#119 'Fair is foul and foul is fair' - Ep 1 Shakespeare and the Groundlings
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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#96 Extortioners and hatchet men - Ep 5 What Wars? What Roses?
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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#95 Murder in the Tower - Ep 4 What Wars? What Roses?
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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#94 'Political gangsterdom' - Ep 4 What Wars? What Roses?
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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#93 'A plague on both your houses' - Ep 2 What Wars? What Roses?
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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#92 'Welcome traitor!' - Ep 1 What Wars? What Roses?
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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#107 This is Armageddon - Ep 7 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum - Neoliberalism uncut
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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#106 Dark make-believe - Ep 6 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum - Neoliberalism uncut
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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#105 Smears, imprisonment, assassination - Ep 5 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum - Neoliberalism uncut
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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#104 Catch 22 - Ep 4 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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#103 Disinformation didn't start with Donald Trump - Ep 3 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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#102 'The cuckoo in the Nobel nest' - Ep 2 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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#101 'everything absolutely maxed out' - Ep 1 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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#32 The curious case of inventing Scottishness
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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#06 London fires were visible from France - Ep 6 Who really won the Battle of Britain?
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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#05 Forcing Britain 'to her knees' - Ep 5 Who really won the Battle of Britain?
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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#4 More than a double bluff - Ep 4 Who really won the Battle of Britain?
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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#03 'Always carry pepper to throw in their eyes' - Ep 3 Who Really won the Battle of Britain?
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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#02 A battle for air superiority? - Ep 2 Who really won the Battle of Britain?
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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#01 Waterworld Flotilla - Ep 1 Who really won the Battle of Britain?
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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#118 'She will be called a man' (Jerome) - Ep 6 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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#117 The Rich man and Melania - Ep 5 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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#116 Chariot races in church - Ep 4 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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#115 The Missing Women - Ep 3 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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#114 The Missing Link - Ep 2 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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#113 Whatever happened to Saint Peter? - Ep 1 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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#16 The Men behind the Myth - Ep 7 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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#15 'The Fourteenth Day' - Ep 6 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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#14 'Eyeball to eyeball' - Ep 5 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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#13 'Russian roulette' - Ep 4 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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#12 'The only way to save Cuba' - Ep 3 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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#11 Fidel Castro was not a communist - Ep 2 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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#10 'These missiles do not significantly alter the balance of power' - Ep 1 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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#112 Loss, love and the struggle to stay alive in 1912
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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#31 'Remember, remember, the fifth of November' - Ep 8 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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#30 'A tall and desperate fellow' - Ep 7 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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#29 The King's Fear - Ep 6 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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#28 'A formidable network of secret agents' - Ep 5 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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#27 'Hellish miners' - Ep 4 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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#26 Why blow up Parliament anyway? - Ep 3 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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#25 'Here lieth the Toad' - Ep 2 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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#24 'There is no state trial so totally devoid of reality' - Ep 1 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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#67 The King, the lies and the whitewash - Ep 7 Nightmare in the trenches 1914-16
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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#66 The British who cheated on the Somme - Ep 6 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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#65 Haig's war crime on the Somme - Ep 5 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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#64 They had the wrong guns - Ep 4 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16
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May 28, 2025 |
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#63 The generals never studied how to attack trenches - Ep 3 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16
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May 21, 2025 |
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#62 They refused to take orders - Ep 2 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914:16
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May 14, 2025 |
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#61 They just pretended to shoot - Ep 1 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16
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May 07, 2025 |
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#109 A quietly brilliant palace coup - Ep 3 - 2 May 1937: the king, his wife, their Führer, the lobster
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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#108 'I wish, myself, to talk to Hitler' - Ep 2 - 2 May 1937: the King, his wife, their Führer, the lobster
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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#07 That Dress - Ep 1 - 2 May 1937: the King, his wife, their Führer, the lobster'
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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#111 A live donkey or a dead lion? - Ep 4 Amundsen vs Scott - a very British failure
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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#110 ‘the worst has happened’ - Ep 3 Scott vs Amundsen - a very British failure
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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#109 The Worst Journey in the World - Ep 2 Scott vs Amundsen - a very British failure
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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#108 Lop Ears and Jackass Ep 1 Scott vs Amundsen - a very British failure
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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#59 The crimes of the rector George Wilson Bridges - Ep 5 Money not Morality ended British enslavement
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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#58 The ship that sank and took the slave trade down with it - Ep 4 Money not Morality ended British enslavement
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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#56 The Empire strikes back - Ep 3 Money not Morality ended British enslavement
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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#55 The woman behind the abolition of slavery - Ep 2 Money not Morality ended British enslavement
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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#54 'Slavery was even worse than we thought' - Ep 1 Money not Morality ended British enslavement
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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#72 It was mainly the poor who burned - Ep 5 Bloody Mary Tudor?
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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#71 Most who were burned were not Protestants - Ep 4 Bloody Mary Tudor?
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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#70 More interested in pirates than heretics - Ep 3 Bloody Mary Tudor?
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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#69 Who exactly was a heretic? - Ep 2 Bloody Mary Tudor?
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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#68 Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! - Ep 1 Bloody Mary Tudor?
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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#79 Santa Claus and the Knickerbockers
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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#107 This is Armageddon - Ep 7 Lunatics take over the Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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#106 Dark make-believe - Ep 6 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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#105 Smears, imprisonment, assassination - Ep 5 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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#104 Catch 22 - Ep 4 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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#103 Disinformation didn't start with Donald Trump - Ep 3 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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#102 'The Cuckoo in the Nobel nest' - Ep 2 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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#101 'everything absolutely maxed out' - Ep 1 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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#78 Remembrance Day - aren't we forgetting something?
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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#23 The Last Million Men - Ep 7 WW1: how much was it Britain's fault?
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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#22 The Bullying of Edward Grey - Ep 6 WW1: how much was it Britain's fault?
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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#21 8pm 1 August 1914 the War is Off - Ep 5 WW1: how much was it Britain's fault?
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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#20 Hanging on Russia's apron strings - Ep 4 WW1: how much was it Britain's fault?
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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#19 Bicycling holidays along the French-Belgian border - Ep 3 WW1: how much was it Britain's fault?
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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#18 Spies of the Kaiser - Ep 2 WW1: how much was it Britain's fault?
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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#17 The Elephant in the Room - Ep 1 WW1: how much was it Britain's fault?
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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#40 Henry VIII: the pope, Katherine, Anne and Florence
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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#52 Anne Boleyn - Henry's MacGuffin
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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#51 Marrying Anne Boleyn, the best of a bad job - Ep 6 Henry VIII: the king, his wife, his lover, the French
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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#50 No more ménage á trois - Ep 5 Henry VIII: the king, his wife, his lover, the French
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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#49 Like an episode of the Borgias - Ep 4 Henry VIII: the king, his wife, his lover, the French
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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#46 Missions Impossible - Ep 3 Henry VIII: the king, his wife, his lover, the French
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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#45 The Jilting of Princess Mary - Ep 2 Henry VIII: the king, his wife, his lover, the French
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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#44 Anne Boleyn did not hold out on Henry - Ep 1 Henry VIII, his wife, his lover, the French
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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#77 Stanley never got the joke - Ep 5 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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#76 Twelve Reckless Americans - Ep 4 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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#75 The Lion and the Tartan Jacket - Ep 3 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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#74 Smoke that Thunders - Ep 2 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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#73 'Stronger than the ox he rode' - Ep 1 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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#100 'My dreams were merely dreams' - Ep 4 Murder. Mystery at the North Pole
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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#99 Shadowlands - Ep 3 Murder. Mystery at the North Pole
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May 29, 2024 |
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#98 'So coarse, so manly' - Ep 2 Murder. Mystery at the North Pole
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May 22, 2024 |
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#97 'a day of undiluted hell' - Ep 1 Murder. Mystery at the North Pole
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May 15, 2024 |
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#48 'Gunsmoke and Mirrors' - Ep 2 Was the Wild West wild?
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May 08, 2024 |
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#47 The Law-less Frontier - Ep 1 Was the Wild West wild?
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May 01, 2024 |
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#39 Newton and the Occult - Ep 2 Was Newton the last of the Magicians?
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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#38 Newton the Alchemist - Ep 1 Was Newton the last of the Magicians?
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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#96 Extortioners and hatchet men - Ep 5 What Wars? What Roses?
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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#95 Murder in the Tower - Ep 4 What Wars? What Roses?
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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#94 'Political gangsterdom' - Ep 3 What Wars? What Roses?
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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#93 'A plague on both your houses' - Ep 2 What Wars? What Roses?
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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#92 'Welcome Traitor!' - Ep 1 What Wars? What Roses?
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Ep 1 The Secret History of the Suffragettes - #34 Getting the vote in 1918 - the secret strategy
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Ep 2 The Secret History of the Suffragettes - #35 Most women didn’t want the vote
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Ep 3 The Secret History of the Suffragettes - #36 The Pankhursts didn’t want the poor to get the vote
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Ep 4 The Secret History of the Suffragettes - #37 Hunger strikes and forced feeding
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Ep 5 The Secret History of the Suffragettes - #41 The violence the Suffragettes wouldn’t admit to
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Ep 6 The Secret History of the Suffragettes - #42 The violence backfired
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Ep 7 The Secret History of the Suffragettes - #43 The Suffragettes did not win the vote
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Ep 8 The Secret History of the Suffragettes - #60 After 1918 - the secrets are out - Ep 8 The Secret History of the Suffragettes
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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#91 Death Camp tattoos were IBM numbers - Ep 10 Trading with the Nazis
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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#90 British appeasement, a sinister game? - Ep 9 Trading with the Nazis
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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#89 Britain's Nazi Allies - Ep 8 Trading with the Nazis
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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#88 'It haunts me' - Ep 7 Trading with the Nazis
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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#87 Kill Nazism with kindness? - Ep 6 Trading with the Nazis
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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#86 'Hell-bent to supplant our democratic government' - Ep 5 Trading with the Nazis
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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#85 Nazi sterilisation, the American way - Ep 4 Trading with the Nazis
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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#84 Dollars and Dictatorship – Ep 3 Trading with the Nazis
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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#83 Enrich your enemy, impoverish your allies - Ep 2 Trading with the Nazis
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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#82 'The whole world belongs to the Americans' - Ep 1 Trading With The Nazis
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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#33 Sex, Hollywood and Fashion
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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#79 Santa Claus and the Knickerbockers
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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#30 ‘A tall and desperate fellow’ - Ep 7 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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#29 The king's fear - Ep 6 Blowing up the Gunpowder plot
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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#28 ‘A formidable network of secret agents’ - Ep 5 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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#27 'Hellish miners' - Ep 4 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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#26 Why blow up Parliament anyway? - Ep 3 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot - Ep 3 Taster
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot - Ep 2 Taster
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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#25 ‘Here lieth the Toad’ - Ep 2 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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#24 ‘There is no state trial so totally devoid of reality’ - Ep 1 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot - Ep 1 Taster
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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#06 London fires were visible from France - ep 6 of Who really won the Battle of Britain?
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Battle of Britain - London Fires Were Visible From France - Ep 6 Taster Final
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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#05 Forcing Britain 'to her knees' - ep 5 of Who really won the Battle of Britain?
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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Battle of Britain - Taster Ep 5 - Forcing Britain To Her Knees
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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#04 More than a double bluff - ep 4 of Who really won the Battle of Britain?
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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#03 'Always carry pepper to throw in their eyes' - ep 3 of Who really won the Battle of Britain?
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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#02 A battle for air superiority? - Ep 2 of Who really won the Battle of Britain?
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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#01 Waterworld Flotilla - ep 1 of Who really won the Battle of Britain?
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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#72 It was mainly the poor who burned - Ep 5 Bloody Mary Tudor?
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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#71 Most who were burned were not Protestants - Ep 4 Bloody Mary Tudor?
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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#70 More interested in pirates than heretics - Ep 3 Bloody Mary Tudor?
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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#69 Who exactly was a heretic? - Ep 2 Bloody Mary Tudor?
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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#68 Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! - Ep 1 of Bloody Mary Tudor?
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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#16 The men behind the myth - Ep 7 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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#15 ‘The Fourteenth Day’ - Ep 6 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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#14 ‘Eyeball to eyeball’ - ep 5 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuban Missile Crisis?
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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#13 ‘Russian roulette’ - ep 4 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuban Missile Crisis?
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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#12 ‘The only way to save Cuba’ - Ep 3 of Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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#11 Fidel Castro was not a communist - Ep 2 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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#10 'these missiles do not significantly alter the balance of power' - Ep 1 Cuba Missile Crisis
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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#77 Stanley never got the joke - Ep 5 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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#76 Twelve reckless Americans - Ep 4 Dr Livingstone, I presume?
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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#75 The Lion and the Tartan Jacket - Ep 3 Dr Livingstone, I presume?
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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#74 Smoke that Thunders Ep 2 Dr Livingstone, I presume?
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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#73 Stronger than the ox he rode Ep 1 'Dr Livingstone, I presume'
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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Memory and Myth – Oxford research project ‘Their Finest Hour’ - SOUND CORRECTED
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May 10, 2023 |
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#81 Coronation and the chilling ghost of Lord Esher
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May 03, 2023 |
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#57 From mayor to meat market. Getting elected in the 18th Century
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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#53 '1066 And All That' - really serious nonsense
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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#59 The crimes of the rector George Wilson Bridges - Ep 5 Slavery
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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#58 The Ship that sank and took the slave trade down with it - Ep 4 Slavery
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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#56 The Empire Strikes Back - Ep 3 Money not Morality ended British Enslavement
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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#55 The woman behind the abolition of slavery - Ep 2 Slavery
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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#54 'Slavery was even worse than we thought' - Ep 1 Money not morality ended British Enslavement
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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#81 Coronation and the chilling ghost of Lord Esher
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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#32 The curious case of inventing Scottishness
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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#39 Newton and the Occult - Ep 2 Was Newton the last of the Magicians?
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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#38 Newton the alchemist - Ep 1 Was Newton the last of the Magicians?
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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#09 A quietly brilliant palace coup - Ep 3 of 2 May 1937: King, wife, Führer, lobster
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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#08 I wish, myself, to talk to Hitler - Ep 2 - 2 May 1937: King, wife, Führer, lobster
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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#07 That Dress - Ep 1 '2 May 1937: the King, his wife, their Führer, the lobster'
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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#80 Nazis: The Road to Power - conversation with author Jonathan Myerson
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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#48 'Gunsmoke and Mirrors' - Ep 2 Was the Wild West wild?
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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#47 The Law-less frontier - Ep 1 Was the Wild West wild?
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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#79 Santa Claus and the Knickerbockers
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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#31 ‘Remember, remember, the Fifth of November’ - Ep 8 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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#30 ‘A tall and desperate fellow’ - Ep 7 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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#29 The king's fear - Ep 6 Blowing up the Gunpowder plot
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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#28 ‘A formidable network of secret agents’ - Ep 5 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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#27 'Hellish miners' - Ep 4 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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#26 Why blow up Parliament anyway? - Ep 3 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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#78 Remembrance Day - Aren't We Forgetting Something?
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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#25 ‘Here lieth the Toad’ - Ep 2 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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#24 ‘There is no state trial so totally devoid of reality’ - Ep 1 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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#77 Stanley never got the joke - Ep 5 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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#76 Twelve reckless Americans - Ep 4 Dr Livingstone, I presume?
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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#75 The Lion and the Tartan Jacket - Ep 3 Dr Livingstone, I presume?
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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#74 Smoke that Thunders Ep 2 Dr Livingstone, I presume?
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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#73 Stronger than the ox he rode Ep 1 'Dr Livingstone, I presume'
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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#59 The crimes of the rector George Wilson Bridges - Ep 05 Slavery
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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#58 The Ship that sank and took the slave trade down with it - Ep 4 Slavery
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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#56 The Empire Strikes Back - Ep 3 Money not Morality ended British Enslavement
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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#55 The woman behind the abolition movement - Ep 2 Money not Morality ended British Enslavement
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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#54 'Slavery was even worse than we thought' - Ep 1 Money not morality ended British Enslavement
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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#52 Anne Boleyn – Henry's MacGuffin
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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#51 Marrying Anne Boleyn, the best of a bad job - Ep 6 Henry VIII
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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#50 No more ménage à trois - Ep 5 Henry VIII: the King, his wife, his lover, the French
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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#49 'Like an episode of the Borgias' - Ep 4 Henry VIII: the King, his wife, his lover, the French
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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#46 Missions impossible - Ep 3 Henry VIII: the King, his wife, his lover, the French
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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#45 The jilting of Princess Mary - Ep 2 Henry VIII: the king, his wife, his lover, the French
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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#44 Anne Boleyn did not hold out on Henry - Ep 1 Henry VIII, his wife, his lover, the French
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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#40 Henry VIII: his pope, Katherine, Anne and FLORENCE
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Jun 25, 2022 |
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#72 It was mainly the poor who burned - Ep 5 Bloody Mary Tudor?
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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#71 Most who were burned were not Protestants - Ep 4 Bloody Mary Tudor?
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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#70 More interested in pirates than heretics - Ep 3 Bloody Mary Tudor?
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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#69 Who exactly was a heretic? - Ep 2 Bloody Mary Tudor?
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May 25, 2022 |
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#68 Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! - Ep 1 of Bloody Mary Tudor?
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May 18, 2022 |
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#33 Sex, Hollywood and Fashion
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May 11, 2022 |
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#09 A quietly brilliant palace coup - Ep 3 of 2 May 1937: King, wife, Führer, lobster
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May 04, 2022 |
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#08 I wish, myself, to talk to Hitler - Ep 2 - 2 May 1937: King, wife, Führer, lobster
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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#07 That Dress - Ep 1 '2 May 1937: the King, his wife, their Führer, the lobster'
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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#60 After 1918 - the Secrets are Out - Ep 8 Secret History of Suffragettes
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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#43 The Suffragettes did not win the vote - Ep 7 The Secret History of the Suffragettes
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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#42 Their violence backfired - Ep 6 The Secret History of the Suffragettes
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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#41 The violence the Suffragettes wouldn't admit to - Ep 5 The Secret History of the Suffragettes
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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#37 Hunger strikes and force feeding - Ep 4 The Secret History of the Suffragettes
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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#36 The Pankhursts didn’t want the poor to get the vote - Ep 3 The Suffragettes
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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#35 Most women didn’t want the vote - Ep 2 The Secret History of the Suffragettes
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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#34 Getting the vote in 1918: the secret strategy - Ep 1 The Secret History of the Suffragettes
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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#67 The King, the lies and the whitewash - Ep 7 Nightmare in the trenches 1914-16
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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#66 The British who cheated on the Somme - Ep 6 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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#65 Haig's war crime on The Somme - Ep 5 Nightmare in the trenches 1914-16
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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#64 They had the wrong guns - Ep 4 Nightmare in the trenches 1914-16
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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#63 The generals never studied how to attack trenches - Ep 3 Nightmare in the trenches 1914-16
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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#62 They refused to take orders - Ep 2 Nightmare in the trenches 1914-16
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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#61 They just pretended to shoot - Ep 1 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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#32 The curious case of inventing Scottishness
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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#23 the last million men? - Ep7 WW1: how much was it Britain’s fault?
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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#22 The bullying of Edward Grey - Ep 6. WW1: how much was it Britain’s fault?
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Dec 26, 2021 |
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#21 8pm 1 August 1914 war in Belgium and France is off - Ep 5 WW1: how much was it Britain’s fault?
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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#20 Hanging on Russia's apron strings - Ep 4 WW1: how much was it Britain’s fault?
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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#19 Bicycling holidays along the French-Belgian border - Ep 3 WW1: how much was it Britain’s fault?
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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#18 ‘Spies of the Kaiser’ - Ep 2 WW1: how much was it Britain’s fault?
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Dec 19, 2021 |
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#17 The elephant in the room - Ep 1 WW1: how much was it Britain’s fault?
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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#16 The men behind the myth - Ep 7 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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#15 ‘The Fourteenth Day’ - Ep 6 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?
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Dec 05, 2021 |
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#14 ‘Eyeball to eyeball’ - ep 5 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuban Missile Crisis?
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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#13 ‘Russian roulette’ - Ep 4 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuban Missile Crisis?
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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#12 ‘The only way to save Cuba’ - Ep 3 of Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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#11 Fidel Castro was not a communist - Ep 2 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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#10 'these missiles do not significantly alter the balance of power' - Ep 1 Cuba Missile Crisis
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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#06 London fires were visible from France - Ep 6 of Who really won the Battle of Britain?
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Nov 28, 2021 |
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#05 Forcing Britain 'to her knees' - Ep 5 Who really won the Battle of Britain?
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Nov 27, 2021 |
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#04 More than a double bluff - Ep 4 of Who really won the Battle of Britain?
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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#03 'Always carry pepper to throw in their eyes' - Ep 3 of Who really won the Battle of Britain?
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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#02 A Battle for air superiority? - Ep 2 Who won the Battle of Britain?
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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#01 Waterworld Flotilla - Ep 1 Who won the Battle of Britain?
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Nov 20, 2021 |
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Remembrance Day 2021 - Aren't We Forgetting Something 211110
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Gunpowder? The Plot that never was
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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1st Anniversary Promo
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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#60 After 1918 - the Secrets are Out - Ep 8 Secret History of Suffragettes
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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#59 The crimes of the rector George Wilson Bridges - Ep 5 Slavery
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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#58 The Ship that sank and took the slave trade down with it - Ep 4 Slavery
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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#57 From mayor to meat market. Getting elected in the 18th Century.
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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#56 The Empire Strikes Back - Ep 3 Money not Morality ended British Enslavement
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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#55 The woman behind the abolition of slavery - Ep 2 Slavery
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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#54 'Slavery was even worse than we thought' - Ep 1 Money not morality ended British Enslavement
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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#53 '1066 And All That' - really serious nonsense
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May 25, 2021 |
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#52 Anne Boleyn – Henry's MacGuffin
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May 18, 2021 |
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#51 Marrying Anne Boleyn, the best of a bad job - Ep 6 Henry VIII
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May 12, 2021 |
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#50 No more ménage à trois - Ep 5 Henry VIII: the King, his wife, his lover, the French
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May 05, 2021 |
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#49 'Like an episode of the Borgias' - Ep 4 Henry VIII: the King, his wife, his lover, the French
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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#48 'Gunsmoke and Mirrors' - Ep 2 Was the Wild West wild?
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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#47 The Law-less frontier - Ep 1 Was the Wild West wild?
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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#46 Missions impossible - Ep 3 Henry VIII: the King, his wife, his lover, the French
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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#45 The jilting of Princess Mary - Ep 2 Henry VIII: the king, his wife, his lover, the French
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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#44 Anne Boleyn did not hold out on Henry - Ep 1 Henry VIII, his wife, his lover, the French
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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#43 The Suffragettes did not win the vote - Ep 7 The Secret History of the Suffragettes
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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#42 The violence backfired - Ep 6 The Secret History of the Suffragettes
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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#41 The violence the Suffragettes wouldn't admit to - Ep 5 The Secret History of the Suffragettes
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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#40 Henry VIII: the pope, Katherine, Anne and Florence
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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#39 Newton and the Occult - Ep 2 Was Newton the last of the Magicians?
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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#38 Newton the alchemist - Ep 1 Was Newton the last of the Magicians?
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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#37 Hunger strikes and force feeding - Ep 4 The Secret History of the Suffragettes
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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#36 The Pankhursts didn't want the poor to get the vote - Ep 3 Secret History of the Suffragettes
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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#35 Most women didn't want the vote - Ep 2 The Secret History of the Suffragettes
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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#34 Getting the vote in 1918 - the secret strategy - Ep 1 The Secret History of the Suffragettes
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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#33 Sex, Hollywood and Fashion
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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#32 The curious case of inventing Scottishness
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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#31 ‘Remember, remember, the Fifth of November’ - Ep 8 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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#30 ‘A tall and desperate fellow’ - Ep 7 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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#29 The king's fear - Ep 6 Blowing up the Gunpowder plot
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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#28 ‘A formidable network of secret agents’ - Ep 5 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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#27 'Hellish miners' - Ep 4 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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#26 Why blow up Parliament anyway? - Ep 3 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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#25 ‘Here lieth the Toad’ - Ep 2 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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#24 ‘There is no state trial so totally devoid of reality’ - Ep 1 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
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Nov 01, 2020 |
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Café Bite: What was great about the Great Reform Act of 1832?
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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Café Bite : Why the US lost the Vietnam war
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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#23 the last million men? - Ep7 WW1: how much was it Britain’s fault?
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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#22 The bullying of Edward Grey - Ep 6. WW1: how much was it Britain’s fault?
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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#21 8pm 1 August 1914 war in Belgium and France is off - Ep 5 WW1: how much was it Britain’s fault?
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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#20 Hanging on Russia's apron strings - Ep 4 WW1: how much was it Britain’s fault?
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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#19 Bicycling holidays along the French-Belgian border - Ep 3 WW1: how much was it Britain’s fault?
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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#18 ‘Spies of the Kaiser’ - Ep 2 WW1: how much was it Britain’s fault?
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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#17 The elephant in the room - Ep 1 WW1: how much was it Britain’s fault?
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Café Bite: The Last of the Magicians?
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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#16 The men behind the myth - ep 7 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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#15 ‘The Fourteenth Day’ - ep 6 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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#14 ‘Eyeball to eyeball’ - ep 5 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuban Missile Crisis?
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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#13 ‘Russian roulette’ - ep 4 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuban Missile Crisis?
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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#12 ‘The only way to save Cuba’ - ep 3 of Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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#11 Fidel Castro was not a communist - ep 2 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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#10 'these missiles do not significantly alter the balance of power' - ep 1 Cuba Missile Crisis
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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#09 A quietly brilliant palace coup - Ep 3 of 2 May 1937: King, wife, Führer, lobster
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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#08 I wish, myself, to talk to Hitler - ep 2 of 2 May 1937: King, wife, Führer, lobster
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Jul 14, 2020 |
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#07 That Dress - ep 1 of 2 May 1937: the King, his wife, their Führer, the lobster
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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#06 London fires were visible from France - ep 6 of Who really won the Battle of Britain?
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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#05 Forcing Britain 'to her knees' - ep 5 of Who really won the Battle of Britain?
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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#04 More than a double bluff - ep 4 of Who really won the Battle of Britain?
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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#01 Waterworld Flotilla - ep 1 of Who really won the Battle of Britain?
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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#02 A battle for air superiority? - ep 2 of Who really won the Battle of Britain?
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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#03 'Always carry pepper to throw in their eyes' - ep 3 of Who really won the Battle of Britain?
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Podcast promo trailer
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May 21, 2020 |