280 Episodes

  1. #66 The British who cheated on the Somme - Ep 6 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16

    Published: 11/06/2025
  2. #65 Haig's war crime on the Somme - Ep 5 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16

    Published: 04/06/2025
  3. #64 They had the wrong guns - Ep 4 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16

    Published: 28/05/2025
  4. #63 The generals never studied how to attack trenches - Ep 3 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16

    Published: 21/05/2025
  5. #62 They refused to take orders - Ep 2 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914:16

    Published: 14/05/2025
  6. #61 They just pretended to shoot - Ep 1 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16

    Published: 07/05/2025
  7. #109 A quietly brilliant palace coup - Ep 3 - 2 May 1937: the king, his wife, their Führer, the lobster

    Published: 30/04/2025
  8. #108 'I wish, myself, to talk to Hitler' - Ep 2 - 2 May 1937: the King, his wife, their Führer, the lobster

    Published: 23/04/2025
  9. #07 That Dress - Ep 1 - 2 May 1937: the King, his wife, their Führer, the lobster'

    Published: 16/04/2025
  10. #111 A live donkey or a dead lion? - Ep 4 Amundsen vs Scott - a very British failure

    Published: 09/04/2025
  11. #110 ‘the worst has happened’ - Ep 3 Scott vs Amundsen - a very British failure

    Published: 01/04/2025
  12. #109 The Worst Journey in the World - Ep 2 Scott vs Amundsen - a very British failure

    Published: 26/03/2025
  13. #108 Lop Ears and Jackass Ep 1 Scott vs Amundsen - a very British failure

    Published: 18/03/2025
  14. #59 The crimes of the rector George Wilson Bridges - Ep 5 Money not Morality ended British enslavement

    Published: 12/03/2025
  15. #58 The ship that sank and took the slave trade down with it - Ep 4 Money not Morality ended British enslavement

    Published: 05/03/2025
  16. #56 The Empire strikes back - Ep 3 Money not Morality ended British enslavement

    Published: 26/02/2025
  17. #55 The woman behind the abolition of slavery - Ep 2 Money not Morality ended British enslavement

    Published: 19/02/2025
  18. #54 'Slavery was even worse than we thought' - Ep 1 Money not Morality ended British enslavement

    Published: 12/02/2025
  19. #72 It was mainly the poor who burned - Ep 5 Bloody Mary Tudor?

    Published: 05/02/2025
  20. #71 Most who were burned were not Protestants - Ep 4 Bloody Mary Tudor?

    Published: 29/01/2025

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