290 Episodes

  1. #112 Loss, love and the struggle to stay alive in 1912

    Published: 20/08/2025
  2. #31 'Remember, remember, the fifth of November' - Ep 8 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot

    Published: 13/08/2025
  3. #30 'A tall and desperate fellow' - Ep 7 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot

    Published: 06/08/2025
  4. #29 The King's Fear - Ep 6 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot

    Published: 29/07/2025
  5. #28 'A formidable network of secret agents' - Ep 5 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot

    Published: 23/07/2025
  6. #27 'Hellish miners' - Ep 4 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot

    Published: 16/07/2025
  7. #26 Why blow up Parliament anyway? - Ep 3 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot

    Published: 09/07/2025
  8. #25 'Here lieth the Toad' - Ep 2 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot

    Published: 02/07/2025
  9. #24 'There is no state trial so totally devoid of reality' - Ep 1 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot

    Published: 25/06/2025
  10. #67 The King, the lies and the whitewash - Ep 7 Nightmare in the trenches 1914-16

    Published: 18/06/2025
  11. #66 The British who cheated on the Somme - Ep 6 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16

    Published: 11/06/2025
  12. #65 Haig's war crime on the Somme - Ep 5 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16

    Published: 04/06/2025
  13. #64 They had the wrong guns - Ep 4 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16

    Published: 28/05/2025
  14. #63 The generals never studied how to attack trenches - Ep 3 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16

    Published: 21/05/2025
  15. #62 They refused to take orders - Ep 2 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914:16

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

    Published: 07/05/2025
  17. #109 A quietly brilliant palace coup - Ep 3 - 2 May 1937: the king, his wife, their Führer, the lobster

    Published: 30/04/2025
  18. #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
  19. #07 That Dress - Ep 1 - 2 May 1937: the King, his wife, their Führer, the lobster'

    Published: 16/04/2025
  20. #111 A live donkey or a dead lion? - Ep 4 Amundsen vs Scott - a very British failure

    Published: 09/04/2025

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