Origins of the Silk Road
The Silk Road was a pivotal ancient exchange network that connected the grassy steppes of Asia and the Middle East with the Western world. The passage of goods, ideas and technologies along this bustl...
26 Jun 202444min
The Real Moriarty with Ben Macintyre
Adam Worth was the quintessential criminal mastermind. He faked his own death, robbed banks in the US, stole diamonds in South Africa and amassed a fortune that helped him evade capture for decades. A...
24 Jun 202425min
The Rosetta Stone
In 1798, the young French General Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt. After successfully taking Alexandria, he ordered the reconstruction of a fort at the nearby city of Rosetta. As his soldiers did the...
24 Jun 202425min
John the Baptist
Not long after the turn of the first millennium, a Jewish prophet emerged from a period of desert solitude in the Jordan River valley. He wore simple camel hair garments and ate nothing but locusts an...
23 Jun 202427min
The Other D-Day: The Eastern Front
Historian, broadcaster and author Jonathan Dimbleby joins Dan to explain how Hitler's plans in the East went disastrously wrong.2 weeks after the D-Day landings, a gigantic Soviet offensive tore throu...
18 Jun 202442min
Dan's History Heroes: Britain's Greatest Soldier, Part 2
Please note that this episode contains some explicit language.This is the story of Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, Britain's most extraordinary soldier. The one-handed, one-eyed, walking stick-wielding wa...
18 Jun 20241h 12min
Dan's History Heroes: Britain's Greatest Soldier, Part 1
This is the story of Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, Britain's most extraordinary soldier. The one-handed, one-eyed, walking stick-wielding war hero fought in the Second Boer War, The First World War and ...
17 Jun 202446min
The Rise and Fall of the Ku Klux Klan
With a sinister hierarchy of "grand wizards" and "dragons," hooded Klansmen concealed their identities as they unleashed a reign of terror on Black Americans and other minorities across America for al...
15 Jun 202437min
