Civil War Rivals: Robert E. Lee vs Ulysses Grant
100 years ago, in the spring of 1864, the Overland Campaign ignited a ferocious clash between two titans of US military history: Ulysses S. Grant, the rugged and relentless Union general, versus the C...
12 Jun 202448min
The Early Years of the British Empire
The British weren't always imperial global players with an empire of viceroys, redcoats and industrialised trade systems. The early years of the British Empire were actually pretty chaotic; for the En...
11 Jun 202442min
The Challenger Disaster
On January 28, 1986, the nation watched in horror as the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded just 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members aboard, including Christa McAuliffe, the first ...
10 Jun 202429min
Lost on Mount Everest: The Mystery of Mallory and Irvine
Dan unravels the mystery surrounding George Mallory and Andrew Irvine's daring attempt to conquer Mount Everest in 1924 - a feat that could have made them the first to stand atop the world's highest p...
9 Jun 202450min
Inside North Korea
With closed borders, a totalitarian regime, electricity blackouts and widespread poverty, North Korea is a brutal place to survive; even looking at a foreign media outlet can get a North Korean citize...
6 Jun 202439min
Pegasus Bridge: The First Assault of D-Day
Just after midnight on the 6th of June, 1944, 181 British glider-borne infantry crashed to earth in the Normandy countryside. They clambered out of their gliders and rushed towards their objectives; t...
6 Jun 202432min
D-Day: The Deception that Made it Possible
Please note that this episode contains explicit language.On the 29th of May, 1944, less than a week before D-Day, General George S. Patton gave a rip-roaring speech to the First US Army Group. He spok...
6 Jun 202429min
D-Day: The Land Invasion
Dan and military historian Stephen Fischer record a moment by moment play of the dramatic and bloody first crucial hour and a half of D-day, as it happened. They breakdown the assaults across the Norm...
6 Jun 20241h 45min
