The Rest Is History

The Rest Is History

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Take a deep dive into History’s biggest moments with Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook.

Explore the stories of History’s most brutal rulers, deadly battles, and world-changing events. From the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the Nazi conquest of Europe, and Hitler’s evil master plan for world domination, to the French Revolution, the sinking of the Titanic, or the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, Tom and Dominic bring the past to life with gripping storytelling and expert analysis, as they unpack the high-drama moments that shaped our world.

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Episodes (95)

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597. The First World War: The Massacre of the Innocents (Part 4)

September 03, 2025 55m Episode 597
What happened at the crucial, bloody, Battle of Ypres in October 1914? How did the battle come about? Why did the Germans and the British fight each other so brutally and for so long to take Ypres?...
596. The First World War: The Miracle on the Marne (Part 3)

596. The First World War: The Miracle on the Marne (Part 3)

August 31, 2025 1h 7m Episode 596
What extraordinary events saw the French - already on the brink of defeat - take on the formerly formidable German army in a remarkable counter-offensive on the 4th of September, in France, in a clash...
595. The First World War: The Battle of the Frontiers (Part 2)

595. The First World War: The Battle of the Frontiers (Part 2)

August 27, 2025 1h 0m Episode 595
What was Britain's first military move following the outbreak of the First World War? Where did the French launch their initial attack on the Germans? Whose army was the biggest and best of all the...
594. The First World War: The Invasion of Belgium (Part 1)

594. The First World War: The Invasion of Belgium (Part 1)

August 24, 2025 1h 0m Episode 594
Following the declaration of war in 1914, how did the outbreak of the First World War unfold? What were the earliest military engagements of this terrible, totemic event? Who were its key political...
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593. The Fight of the Century

August 20, 2025 57m Episode 593
Why did two men - John Heenan and and Tom Sayers - illegally meet in a field in Hampshire, in 1860, to brutally fight one another, captivating Britain in the process? What can the fight tell us about...
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592. Mad Victorian Sport

August 17, 2025 56m Episode 592
How and when was football invented, and what are the origins of football clubs? What is the connection between public hangings, highwaymen, and early sporting events? Which is the most historically...
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591. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Manhunt for the Killer (Part 2)

August 13, 2025 1h 7m Episode 591
How was President Abraham Lincoln murdered on Good Friday 1865, at Ford’s Theatre, just five days after Robert E. Lee’s surrender? Who was John Wilkes Booth, the racist actor with southern sympathies,...
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590. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Death at the Theatre (Part 1)

August 10, 2025 1h 2m Episode 590
After passing the 13th amendment, in the closing weeks of the brutal American Civil War, what did president Abraham Lincoln - recently re-elected - do next to inflame his detractors? Crippled with...
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589. Mary, Queen of Scots: Downfall (Part 6)

August 06, 2025 1h 6m Episode 589
Following the murder of her husband, Lord Darnley, how did Mary Queen of Scots - thought to have conspired for his death - navigate the most precarious situation of her young life so far? Would she...
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588. Mary, Queen of Scots: The Mystery of the Exploding Mansion (Part 5)

August 03, 2025 1h 0m Episode 588
How and why was Mary Queen of Scots’ traitorous husband, Lord Darnley, murdered, and by whom…? Was Mary complicit? Why was his death one of the greatest mysteries in all British history? And, with...
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587. Mary, Queen of Scots: Murder Most Foul (Part 4)

July 30, 2025 54m Episode 587
Why did Mary Queen of Scots’ second marriage to the volatile Lord Darnley threaten to send Scotland into civil war? In what way did she essentially declare war upon her powerful cousin, Elizabeth I?...
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586. Mary, Queen of Scots: The Battle for Scotland (Part 3)

July 27, 2025 1h 4m Episode 586
Following the death of her husband, the King of France, was the glamorous Mary welcomed back to Scotland, her kingdom since infancy, with open arms or deep suspicion? Did she handle the precarious...
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585. Mary, Queen of Scots: The Royal Rivals (Part 2)

July 23, 2025 1h 0m Episode 585
What was life like in the glittering French court, for the young and newly married Mary Queen of Scots? What momentous destiny was her formidable mother, Mary of Guise, planning for her? How did Mary...
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584. Mary, Queen of Scots: Birth of a Legend (Part 1)

July 20, 2025 54m Episode 584
Where was Mary Queen of Scots - Elizabeth I’s most famous rival - born, and who were her parents? What was the nature of the turbulent politically and religiously divided world she was born into? How...
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583. The Lion, the Priest and the Parlourmaids: A 1930s Sex Scandal

July 16, 2025 57m Episode 583
Who was the Rector of Stiffkey, Harold Davidson - the "Prostitutes' Padre" - and why was he Britain’s most notorious curate? Was it his unnerving infatuation with girls that saw him put on trial and...
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582. The Body in the Woods: A Medieval Murder Mystery

July 13, 2025 1h 0m Episode 582
Why was a boy grotesquely and mysteriously murdered in a wood in Norwich in the 12th century? Who was his killer? Was it a ritual child sacrifice? Why was the murder blamed on Norwich's Jewish...
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581. The Irish Civil War: The Killing of Michael Collins (Part 2)

July 09, 2025 45m Episode 581
After the assassination of Sir Henry Wilson and the signing of the polarising Anglo-Irish Treaty, how did the bombastic Battle of the Four Courts break out in Dublin? With British guns opening fire on...
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580. The Irish Civil War: The Assassination of Sir Henry Wilson (Part 1)

July 06, 2025 47m Episode 580
Who was Sir Henry Wilson, and how was he shockingly murdered in 1922? Who ordered it? What was his attitude to the question of Irish Home Rule? Why has death been compared to the assassination of...
579. The Irish War of Independence: Showdown in London (Part 4)

579. The Irish War of Independence: Showdown in London (Part 4)

July 02, 2025 1h 6m Episode 579
What were the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, signed in December 1921, following negotiations between the UK and Sinn Féin? How was it received by the Irish people? What was the process by which it...
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578. The Irish War of Independence: Bloody Sunday (Part 3)

June 29, 2025 57m Episode 578
What occurred on Bloody Sunday on 21 November 1920 - a turning point in the Irish War of Independence and one of the bloodiest and most brutal moments in Irish history? How many British Army Officers...
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577. The Irish War of Independence: The Violence Begins (Part 2)

June 25, 2025 1h 3m Episode 577
What was Sinn Féin’s totemic first move after winning a majority seat in 1917? Were the IRA’s methods during this early stages of the war as violent as they are commonly believed to have been? How...
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576. The Irish War of Independence: Rise of the IRA (Part 1)

June 22, 2025 1h 9m Episode 576
What are the origins of the Irish War of Independence? What impact did the First World War have on Irish efforts for Home Rule? What was the mood in Ireland following the bloody Easter Rising of 1916?...
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575. The Medici: The Bonfire of the Vanities (Part 4)

June 19, 2025 1h 9m Episode 575
Following the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent, who was his Medici successor? Could he overcome the political turmoil and religious fervour in Florence, and rebuff the storm clouds of war gathering...
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574. The Medici: Curse of the Mad Monk (Part 3)

June 15, 2025 59m Episode 574
Did Lorenzo de’Medici’s rule in Florence incur prosperity, or was it a corrupt and autocratic regime, rife with torture, that would spell the doom of the former Republic? While building an edifice of...
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573. The Medici: Lorenzo the Magnificent (Part 2)

June 11, 2025 59m Episode 573
Who was Lorenzo the Magnificent, the most glamorous, glittering, and blood-soaked of all the Medici, who became his family’s formidable but compulsive “Godfather” from the age of only twenty one? What...
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572. The Medici: Masters of Florence (Part 1)

June 08, 2025 1h 3m Episode 572
What are the origins of one of history’s most glittering, and for a time, most powerful families in Europe; the Medici? How were they able to seize supreme power in the Republic of Florence , one of...
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571. Hannibal: Roman Bloodbath at Cannae (Part 4)

June 04, 2025 58m Episode 571
How did the Battle of Cannae - one of the most important battles of all time for Ancient Rome, with a whole Empire at stake, and a reputation that had reverberated across the centuries - in 216 BC,...
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570. Hannibal: The Invasion of Italy (Part 3)

June 01, 2025 56m Episode 570
How did Hannibal achieve the remarkable feat of crossing the Alps with his army, and elephants? How many of his men survived the treacherous journey? Was it worth sacrificing so much of his army in...
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569. Hannibal: Elephants Cross the Alps (Part 2)

May 28, 2025 58m Episode 569
Why did Hannibal choose to cross the Alps with his elephants in 218 BC, when invading Rome? Was it a brilliant stratagem or a military disaster? What was the secret to the Roman Republic’s growing...
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568. Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy (Part 1)

May 25, 2025 55m Episode 568
Who was Hannibal, the flawed but brilliant Carthaginian general? What makes Rome vs Carthage in the third century BC one of the most totemic ancient rivalries of all time? How did Hamilcar, father of...
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567. The Great Northern War: Murder in Moscow (Part 4)

May 21, 2025 1h 5m Episode 567
What were the consequences of Peter the Great’s mighty victory over Sweden at the Battle of Poltova in 1707? How great was the impact of his reign upon Russia overall, and was he responsible for...
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566. The Great Northern War: Slaughter on the Steppes (Part 3)

May 18, 2025 1h 1m Episode 566
Why was the greatest and most climactic battle of the Great Northern War, the Battle of Poltova, one of the most important in all European history? What drove Charles XII of Sweden to invade Russia in...
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565. The Great Northern War: Revenge of the Cossacks (Part 2)

May 14, 2025 1h 7m Episode 565
After establishing the city of St Petersburg, what was Peter the Great’s next step in his titanic struggle against Charles XII of Sweden, for mastery of northern and eastern Europe? What drastic,...
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564. The Great Northern War: The Battle of the Baltic (Part 1)

May 11, 2025 1h 7m Episode 564
How did the Great Northern War, which saw Sweden pitted against Peter the Great’s Russia and her allies, and would transform Europe forever, begin? Who was Charles XII, Sweden’s King, and a worthy...
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563. Peter the Great: Bloodbath in the Kremlin (Part 2)

May 07, 2025 1h 2m Episode 563
What abominable mischief and hedonism did the seventeen year old Peter the Great revel in during his strange and remarkable travels through Europe, before truly stepping into the role of Tsar of all...
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562. Peter the Great: The Rise of Russia (Part 1)

May 04, 2025 1h 3m Episode 562
Why was the early life of Peter the Great - Tsar and autocrat of all the Russias, who endures to this day as an iconic symbol of Russian might - drenched in blood and violence? What amalgamation of...
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561. The Golden Age of Japan: Secrets of the Imperial Court (Part 2)

April 30, 2025 1h 6m Episode 561
In the vibrant but vicious golden age of Imperial Japan, how did women use writing as a way to secure their status, and express their deepest desires? Who was Sei Shōnagon, the witty courtier whose...
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560. The Golden Age of Japan: Lady Murasaki and the Shining Prince (Part 1)

April 27, 2025 54m Episode 560
At the height of Imperial Japan, during a golden age of court intrigue, obsessive hierarchy, and fabulous sophistication, who was the legendary lothario and emperor’s son, Genji? What can the Tale of...
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559. The Rolling Stones: Satanic Majesties of Sixties Rebellion (Part 2)

April 23, 2025 1h 8m Episode 559
"We're not worried about petty morals."

What happened to the Rolling Stones in 1967 to see them on the brink of imprisonment and mass censure, while at the height of their success, with fame,...
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558. The Rolling Stones: Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll (Part 1)

April 20, 2025 1h 8m Episode 558
What are the origins of Britain’s original bad boys, The Rolling Stones? Where did they all come from and how did they meet? What was it about the 1960s, with its air of sexual liberation, newly...
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557. 1066: The Norman Conquest (Part 4)

April 16, 2025 1h 3m Episode 557
What happened in the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings? What horrors did William the Conqueror have to inflict upon his Anglo Saxon subjects in order to consolidate his new realm? And, what role did...
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556. 1066: The Battle of Hastings (Part 3)

April 13, 2025 57m Episode 556
Following King Harold Godwinson’s climactic victory at the Battle of Stanford Bridge, and the death of Harald Hardrada, what did he do when news reached him that William of Normandy’s army had landed...
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555. 1066: Slaughter at Stamford Bridge (Part 2)

April 09, 2025 1h 9m Episode 555
In the tumultuous climax of 1066, why was Harold’s very own brother Tostig the first of the mighty foes he had to face? How did Harald Hardrada then launch his invasion of England, and how much...
554. 1066: The Shadows of War (Part 1)

554. 1066: The Shadows of War (Part 1)

April 06, 2025 1h 1m Episode 554
Why is 1066 the most important year in English history? Who were the three main candidates vying for the English throne on the eve of Edward the Confessor’s death? And how did the coronation of one of...
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553. The Last Viking: Warrior of the New Rome (Part 2)

April 02, 2025 1h 4m Episode 553
Harald Hardrada; exiled prince of Norway and mercenary, has landed in the greatest city on Earth: Constantinople. There he joins one of the most prestigious military organisations in the world, the...
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552. The Last Viking: The Saga of Harald Hardrada (Part 1)

March 30, 2025 1h 2m Episode 552
“I swear I will not flee from this fight. I will triumph, or I will die!”

In the 1066 game of thrones for the crown of England, the most extraordinary of the three contenders is arguably Harald...
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551. The Road to 1066: Countdown to Conquest (Part 4)

March 27, 2025 59m Episode 551
In the triumvirate of 1066, William of Normandy, Harald Hardrada, and Harold Godwinson, the latter has above all endured as one of the great heroes of English history. But how did he become the...
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550. The Road to 1066: Rise of the Normans (Part 3)

March 24, 2025 57m Episode 550
Born into a world of treachery, violence and death, William of Normandy defied all expectations, forging a legacy that lasts to this day. Born out of wedlock and dismissed as an upstart, he was...
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549. The Road to 1066: Revenge of the Vikings (Part 2)

March 20, 2025 1h 4m Episode 549
Following the bloody St Brice’s Day Massacre, of the 13th of November 1002, which saw King Æthelred brutally exterminating the Danes from England, the Vikings were hungry for revenge. None more so...
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548. The Road to 1066: Anglo-Saxon Apocalypse (Part 1)

March 17, 2025 58m Episode 548
The Norman Conquest of 1066, culminating in the legendary Battle of Hastings, is perhaps the greatest turning point in the history of the English nation. It was a year that changed the fate of England...
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547. The French Revolution: The Execution of the King (Part 4)

March 13, 2025 1h 2m Episode 547
The second revolution that engulfed France over the course of 1792 reached its climax in December, with an astonishing, world-changing spectacle, which held all the eyes of Europe spellbound: Louis...
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546. The French Revolution: The Monarchy Falls (Part 3)

March 10, 2025 1h 0m Episode 546
“From this place and from this day forth commences a new era in the world’s history, and you can all say you were present at its birth!”

By September 1792, the Prussians, under the leadership of the...
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545. The French Revolution: The First Feminist (Part 2)

March 06, 2025 1h 0m Episode 545
In the summer and Autumn of 1792 - with the Prussians bearing down on Paris, the streets thronged with the stirring swell of the Marseillaise, but also the rotting bodies of those brutally killed...
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544. The French Revolution: The September Massacres (Part 1)

March 03, 2025 1h 0m Episode 544
‘Still more traitors, still more treason…"

It is 1792 and France has been at war since April; it is not going well. In Paris, the Tuileries Palace has been stormed, and the royal family imprisoned....
543. Death in the Amazon: Aguirre, the Wrath of God

543. Death in the Amazon: Aguirre, the Wrath of God

February 27, 2025 1h 7m Episode 543
“Anyone who even thinks of abandoning this mission will be cut up into a thousand pieces…I am the wrath of God!”

At the height of the age of exploration, during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,...
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542. Elizabeth I’s Sorcerer: Angels and Demons in Renaissance Europe

February 24, 2025 1h 3m Episode 542
In Tudor England, during the reign of Elizabeth I, there lived in the very heart of her court a magician, alchemist and polymath, bent upon conversing with the angels of heaven and other supernatural...
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541. Heart of Darkness: Fear and Loathing in the Congo

February 20, 2025 1h 15m Episode 541
“The horror! The horror!”

Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ - the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's ‘Apocalypse Now’ - is one of the most celebrated literary works of all time, though now...
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540. Horror in the Congo: A Conspiracy Unmasked (Part 3)

February 17, 2025 1h 4m Episode 540
Exposing the dark pit of human suffering, cruelty and corruption that had long been secretly festering in King Leopold’s Congo, would reveal one of the greatest abuses of human rights in all history,...
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539. Horror in the Congo: The Crimes of Empire (Part 2)

February 13, 2025 58m Episode 539
“A secret society of murderers with a king for a ringleader”.

In 1885 King Leopold of Belgium; an awkward, ruthless, selfish man, was recognised as the sovereign of the Congo. Long determined to...
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538. Horror in the Congo: The Nightmare Begins (Part 1)

February 10, 2025 1h 3m Episode 538
The story of King Leopold of Belgium’s brutal regime in the Congo Free State, during the late 19th century, is one of the darkest and most important in global history. It is a story of horror - the...
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537. Emperors of Rome: Claudius, Paranoia and Poison (Part 4)

February 06, 2025 1h 6m Episode 537
Following the bloody assassination of the twenty-eight year old Emperor Caligula, Rome found herself without a leader. Who then should fill the enormous power vacuum left by the death of an emperor?...
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536. Emperors of Rome: Caligula, Incest and Insanity (Part 3)

February 03, 2025 1h 5m Episode 536
"Enough of the Princeps, what remains to be described, is the monster..."

The Roman emperor Caligula endures as one of the most notorious figures in not only Roman history, but the history of the...
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535. Emperors of Rome: Tiberius, Slaughter and Scandal (Part 2)

January 30, 2025 58m Episode 535
The Roman historian Suetonius’ biography of the controversial Emperor Tiberius is one of his most shocking and salacious, condemning Tiberius to infamy. But was Tiberius really the perverted monster...
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534. Emperors of Rome: Sex Secrets of the Caesars (Part 1)

January 27, 2025 53m Episode 534
The Roman historian Suetonius’ The Lives of the Caesars, written during the early imperial period of the Roman Empire, is a seminal biography covering the biographies of the early emperors of Rome,...
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Russian Spies, Pigeons, and The Rest Is Classified…

January 24, 2025 14m
How did a Russian spy manage to infiltrate the upper echelons of London and New York society? Was Anna Chapman really an old fashioned Russian honeytrap or was she underestimated by the world's press?...
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533. Wojtek: The Bear Who Beat the Nazis

January 23, 2025 59m Episode 533
The story of Wojtek - the bear who took on the Nazis - amidst the death and devastation of the Second World War, and more specifically Poland's heroic resistance, is a flicker of redemption amidst an...
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532. Hitler's War on Poland: The Fall of Warsaw (Part 3)

January 20, 2025 1h 0m Episode 532
The Nazi invasion of Poland is one of the most harrowing episodes of the Second World War, which saw terrible scenes of abuse take place. Though long threatened, Poland was in no way prepared to face...
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531. Hitler's War on Poland: The Pact with Stalin (Part 2)

January 16, 2025 1h 2m Episode 531
By the 11th of April 1939, Adolf Hitler and his Nazis were in the process of drawing up a plan of attack for Poland, the Poles having resisted Germany’s attempts to make them hand over Danzig and turn...
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530. Hitler’s War on Poland: Countdown to Armageddon (Part 1)

January 13, 2025 59m Episode 530
Following the Munich agreement of September 1938, Nazi troops marched into Czechoslovakia and ruthlessly claimed it as a German protectorate. Still, even following his annexation of Czechoslovakia,...
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529. The Nazis' Road to War: Showdown in Munich (Part 2)

January 09, 2025 57m Episode 529
On 17th September 1938, in Munich, one of the most extraordinary meetings in history took place. Neville Chamberlain launched an extraordinary and unprecedented diplomatic coup. Boarding a plane, he...
528. The Nazis' Road to War: Hitler Prepares to Strike (Part 1)

528. The Nazis' Road to War: Hitler Prepares to Strike (Part 1)

January 06, 2025 1h 1m Episode 528
Throughout the course of the 1930s, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party has overwhelmingly, terrifyingly seized power in Germany. Now, Hitler’s vile ambitions have turned to Czechoslovakia. On the 12th of...
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527. Beethoven: Napoleon and the Music of War LIVE at the Royal Albert Hall

January 02, 2025 1h 6m Episode 527
Ludwig Van Beethoven, like his precursor and possible acquaintance Mozart, is one of the most famous figures in Western musical history. With his wild hair and furrowed brow, his was a genius marked...
526. Mozart: History's Greatest Prodigy LIVE at the Royal Albert Hall

526. Mozart: History's Greatest Prodigy LIVE at the Royal Albert Hall

December 30, 2024 1h 9m Episode 526
In 1756 a musical prodigy was born in Salzburg, Austria: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Thanks to the efforts of his exacting father, Mozart's genius was exhibited and celebrated in some of the greatest...
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525. Charlemagne: Emperor of the West (Part 3)

December 25, 2024 1h 3m Episode 525
“And from that moment on, he was addressed as emperor and Augustus!”

The coronation of Charlemagne on Christmas Day 800 AD, is one of the landmark moments in all world history. More than three...
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524. Charlemagne: Pagan Killer (Part 2)

December 23, 2024 53m Episode 524
“Here was a program to wet the ambitions of warlords as well as scholars, and to send men into battle beneath the fluttering of banners, the hiss of arrows, and the shadow of carrion crows…”

The year...
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523. Charlemagne: Return of the Kings (Part 1)

December 19, 2024 50m Episode 523
The Frankish king, Charlemagne the Great, is one of the titanic figures of European history, simultaneously renowned and shadowy. His rise to supreme power is a staggering story of warring religious...
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522. Warlords of the West: A Clash of Ice and Fire (Part 3)

December 16, 2024 59m Episode 522
By 711 Europe and the Frankish warlords were facing a graver threat than ever before. Bands of Northern African, nominally Muslim raiders had begun a steady incursion throughout the West, loosely...
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521. Warlords of the West: Killer Queens (Part 2)

December 12, 2024 1h 0m Episode 521
Following the death of the legendary Frankish King Clovis, his son Clothar I divided the mighty realm his father had hacked out from the warring warlords of Europe between his four sons. But peace was...
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520. Warlords of the West: Barbarian Heirs of Rome (Part 1)

December 09, 2024 51m Episode 520
The Rise of the Franks - a mighty host of warlords; forefathers of the western world and forgers of medieval civilisation, under the totemic leadership of history’s most glorious King: Charlemagne. It...
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519. The World's First City

December 05, 2024 50m Episode 519
In as early as 5000 BC the vast and spectacular city of Uruk - replete with towering walls, glistening temples and complex irrigation systems - lay sprawled across the face of Southern Mesopotamia....
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518. Nelson: The Battle of the Nile (Part 5)

December 02, 2024 51m Episode 518
The 1st of August 1798 saw the British fleet sailing towards Alexandria into a land of classical history and mythology, the sun setting like blood over the River Nile and French flags flying over the...
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517. Nelson: The Hunt for Napoleon (Part 4)

November 28, 2024 52m Episode 517
In the wake of the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in 1797, Horatio Nelson, though a much acclaimed public hero for his bravery during the battle, is in the doldrums. Having led a harebrained attack on...
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516. Nelson: God of War (Part 3)

November 25, 2024 38m Episode 516
Valentine’s day, 1797: the British Royal Navy are hoping for a decisive clash with the Spanish enemy, off the coast of Portugal, at Cape St. Vincent. Nelson has already narrowly avoided capture at the...
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515. Nelson: Attack the French! (Part 2)

November 21, 2024 37m Episode 515
It is 1793 and France has declared war on Britain, meaning that the British navy must serve as both sword and shield to Europe. Horatio Nelson is at this time a slim and sickly 34 year old captain who...
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514. Nelson: Hero of the Seas (Part 1)

November 18, 2024 1h 6m Episode 514
It’s 1758 and Britain’s greatest naval commander has just been born. The young Horatio Nelson has inherited his father’s love of god and his mother’s hatred of the French. At age 12, he leaves Norfolk...
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513. America in '68: Nixon's Great Comeback (Part 6)

November 14, 2024 57m Episode 513
“Nixon now! Nixon now! More than ever we need Nixon now!”
It's the 5th of November 1968, and Richard M. Nixon is on tenterhooks, alone in his dark hotel room. He watches as the final states are called...
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512. America in '68: The Chicago Riots (Part 5)

November 11, 2024 1h 9m Episode 512
The Democratic National Convention is in Chicago, and the incumbent president, Lyndon B. Johnson, has pulled out of the race. Anti-war protestors are flooding the streets of the city, and Johnson...
511. America in '68: George Wallace, The First Donald Trump (Part 4)

511. America in '68: George Wallace, The First Donald Trump (Part 4)

November 07, 2024 1h 6m Episode 511
“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!”
George Wallace, Governor of Alabama, was one of the most successful third-party presidential candidates in American history. In 1968, he...
510. America in '68: The Killing of Robert Kennedy (Part 3)

510. America in '68: The Killing of Robert Kennedy (Part 3)

November 04, 2024 1h 4m Episode 510
“What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and...
509.  America in '68: The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (Part 2)

509. America in '68: The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (Part 2)

October 31, 2024 1h 2m Episode 509
The peaceful figurehead of the Civil Rights movement in the early 1960s, Dr Martin Luther King had inspired hundreds of thousands to demand equal rights for African Americans. But by 1968, the once...
508. America in '68: Nightmare in Vietnam (Part 1)

508. America in '68: Nightmare in Vietnam (Part 1)

October 28, 2024 1h 13m Episode 508
"Tonight I want to speak to you of peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.”
On the night of Sunday, 31st of March 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson, after announcing an end to the bombing of North...
507. The French Revolution: The Marseillaise, Song of War (Part 5)

507. The French Revolution: The Marseillaise, Song of War (Part 5)

October 24, 2024 46m Episode 507
“Let us march! Let us march! May impure blood water our fields!”
Written after the declaration of war against Austria in 1792, “La Marseillaise” was born in the provinces of France, away from the...
506. The French Revolution: Massacre at the Palace (Part 4)

506. The French Revolution: Massacre at the Palace (Part 4)

October 23, 2024 58m Episode 506
The war between revolutionary France and the allied powers of Prussia and Austria has reached fever pitch, and in early August 1792, the latter party threaten a terrible vengeance on Paris should harm...
505. The French Revolution: The Shadow of the Guillotine (Part 3)

505. The French Revolution: The Shadow of the Guillotine (Part 3)

October 20, 2024 55m Episode 505
During the "Ancien Regime", royal executioners held an unholy status, and would strike up fear in the crowds as they walked the streets of Paris. But with the Revolution, the role of executioners in...
504. The French Revolution: War to the Death (Part 2)

504. The French Revolution: War to the Death (Part 2)

October 16, 2024 1h 1m Episode 504
“You have shaken off the yoke of your despots, but surely this was not to bend the knee before a foreign tyrant…”
It’s January 1792, and one of the largest factions in revolutionary France, the...

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