Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet
When Martin Luther nailed a sheet of paper to the church door of a small university town in 1517, he set off a process that changed the Western world for ever. His attempts to reform Christianity by r...
14 Jul 202055min
Munich
September 1938. Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place...
10 Jul 20201h 6min
First Confession: A Sort of Memoir
In a long and distinguished career, Chris Patten has been a Westminster MP, a UK Cabinet minister, the last Governor of Hong Kong, Chairman of the BBC and Chancellor of Oxford University. In this fran...
7 Jul 20201h 9min
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai, who for most of the twentieth century, were at the centre of power in China. It was sometimes said that ‘One loved...
5 Mai 20201h 6min
The Patient Assassin
In April 1919, at a political gathering in the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, India, Brigadier General Reginald Dyer marched his soldiers into a walled garden, filled with thousands of unarmed men, wom...
30 Apr 20201h 11min
Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream
The ‘American Dream’ and ‘America First’ are two of the most loaded phrases in America today, and also two of the most misunderstood. The American Dream began as a pledge for equality rather than as a...
28 Apr 20201h 3min
Does historical accuracy in film really matter?
For some commentators, ‘fake-history films’ are the new threat to truth, arguing that artistic licence is no excuse for distorting historical facts and yet contemporary movies change history all the t...
23 Apr 20201h 3min
Children of the Troubles
Nine-year-old Patrick Rooney loved horror movies and Hallowe’en and wanted to be a priest when he grew up. Instead, on 15th August 1969, he became the first child killed as a result of the ‘Troubles’ ...
21 Apr 20201h 8min
