1920: Countdown To Partition
The 1921 partition of Ireland had huge ramifications for almost all aspects of Irish life and was directly responsible for hundreds of deaths and injuries, with thousands displaced from their homes an...
23 Mar 202159min
Dead Famous: an unexpected history of celebrity
Celebrity, with its neon glow and selfie pout, strikes us as hypermodern. But the famous and infamous have been thrilling, titillating, and outraging us for much longer than we might realise. In this ...
19 Mar 20211h 4min
V2
On the brink of defeat, Hitler commissioned 10,000 V2s - ballistic rockets that carried a one-ton warhead at three times the speed of sound, which he believed would win the war.Dr Rudi Graf who, along...
16 Mar 202157min
House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family
After her grandmother died, Hadley Freeman travelled to her apartment to try and make sense of a woman she’d never really known. When Hadley found a shoebox filled with her grandmother’s treasured bel...
12 Mar 202158min
Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends
In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people from across the political spectrum in Europe and America celebrated a great achievement, felt a common purpose and, very often, f...
9 Mar 202158min
The Hitler Years ~ Disaster 1940-1945
At the beginning of 1940 Germany was at the pinnacle of its power. By May 1945 Hitler was dead and Germany had suffered a disastrous defeat. Hitler had failed to achieve his aim of making Germany a su...
5 Mar 20211h 2min
The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive
In The Ratline, his riveting real-life thriller, Philippe Sands offers a unique account of the daily life of senior Nazi SS Brigadefuhrer Otto Freiherr von Wachter and his wife, Charlotte. Drawing on ...
2 Mar 20211h 1min
Bloody Sunday: the day that shook Dublin
At 9am on the morning of 21 November 1920, Michael Collins’ IRA gunmen killed 15 suspected British intelligence officers at various sites across Dublin City. In the afternoon Crown forces opened fire ...
19 Nov 20201h 9min
