The Curse of King Tutankhamun's Tomb
Untimely deaths followed the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter. Coincidence or ancient curse? When the tomb of King Tutankhamun was sealed more than 3000 years ago, it was rumoured to be ...
26 Feb 202557min
Final Days of Thomas Cromwell
From ruthless schemer to pragmatic hero - who is the real Thomas Cromwell? And how did he meet his end? Today Anthony Delaney tells Maddy Pelling the story.Edited by Tomos Delargy. Produced by Freddy ...
24 Feb 202553min
Glencoe Massacre: Haunted Highlands
(Part 2/2) On the 13 February 1692, Scottish government troops slaughtered between 30-40 members of Clan MacDonald in their home in Glencoe, in the Scottish Highlands. Who was behind the killings? How...
20 Feb 202539min
Peasants' Revolt: Murder in the Tower of London
(2/2) A boy King, a rebel army, and the first ever execution at Tower Hill. Maddy Pelling tells Anthony Delaney the days in the summer of 1381 when rebels took control of London and King Richard II, o...
17 Feb 202542min
Glencoe Massacre: Hell in the Scottish Highlands
On the 13 February 1692, Scottish government troops slaughtered between 30-40 members of Clan MacDonald in their home in Glencoe, in the Scottish Highlands. They fell upon them without warning, killin...
13 Feb 202535min
Peasants' Revolt: Medieval Rebellion
1381, England, the world turned upside down as the commoners rise up and dismantle the mechanisms of power. They're angry about taxes, serfdom, about being forcibly kept in their place by corrupt lord...
10 Feb 202534min
Final Days of the Romanovs (Part 2)
(2/2) We join the captive Romanovs as they are moved from The Alexander Palace to Siberia and then to Ekaterinburg, where their dreadful murder awaits them. It's a story that still has the power to sh...
6 Feb 202534min
Sweating Sickness: Deadly Tudor Plague
It's a medical-history-mystery: the Sweating Sickness. Things get clammy as Anthony Delaney and Maddy Pelling ask what was this deadly disease? What happened when Anne Boleyn got it? And why were suff...
3 Feb 202541min
