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
D-Day: The Air Invasion
In the second episode of our D-Day series, we look to the skies. In the build-up to Operation Overlord, thousands of Allied pilots in heavy bombers and fighter planes ground down the Luftwaffe and des...
6 Jun 202426min
D-Day: The Sea Invasion
This is the often forgotten chapter of the D-Day story.To begin our series for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, we turn to the massive naval operations that made it all happen. On D-Day its...
6 Jun 202451min
Las Vegas & Atomic Tourism
In the 1950s, the US government conducted a series of nuclear bomb tests in the Mojave desert, right next door to Las Vegas. Tourists flocked to the luxurious hotels of America's gambling capital to w...
4 Jun 202425min
Julius Caesar's Sex Life
"I came. I saw. I conquered".Perhaps the most famous Julius Caesar quote of all time. But after hearing all about his bedroom antics, it takes on a slightly...different meaning.From Cleopatra to his t...
3 Jun 202438min
Mutiny on the Rising Sun: Smuggling in Colonial America
This is the story of a bloody mutiny aboard the Boston-based schooner, the Rising Sun. The ship had been on a routine smuggling voyage before it was violently seized by three opportunistic crew member...
25 Mai 202434min
