Digging for Britain with Professor Alice Roberts
2021 was a bumper year for archaeological discoveries across Britain. In this episode, we go on a whistlestop tour of some of the most notable finds — from an immaculately preserved Roman mosaic found...
11 Tammi 202226min
Was the League of Nations Doomed to Fail?
102 years ago on the 10th of January 1920, the League of Nations was formed out of the Treaty of Versailles. Its aim was to maintain peace after the First World War. With 58 member states by the 1930s...
10 Tammi 202220min
Obama and Merkel: The Extraordinary Partnership
U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are two of the world’s most influential leaders, together at the centre of some of the biggest controversies and most impressive advance...
9 Tammi 202225min
1921 Census: Revealed
For the first time, the 1921 Census of England & Wales is now publicly available, only online at the family history website, Findmypast. More detailed than any previous British census taken up to that...
7 Tammi 202228min
Democratic Decline
The 6th of January marks one year since the United States Capitol attack of 2021, whereby a mob of supporters of Republican President Donald J. Trump stormed the Capitol Building. On today’s anniversa...
6 Tammi 202236min
Sitting Bull: the Life and Death of a Native American Chief
Sitting Bull, best known for his initiative and victory at the Battle of Little Bighorn, is a greatly revered Native American Chief. But he was more than a fierce leader of his people. Bestowed the na...
5 Tammi 202251min
Treasures of Ancient Egypt
Ramesses the Great, ego in the ancient world and Tutankhamun's sacred underwear. These are all covered in today's episode with Dr Campbell Price about the treasures that will be housed in the new Gran...
4 Tammi 202221min
Tutankhamun: Life, Legacy and Discovery
Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered by Howard Carter almost 100 years ago, and two years later they opened up the stone sarcophagus that held the golden coffin containing the mummy of Tutankhamun. In th...
3 Tammi 202229min
