The World’s Deadliest Pandemic! - episode 90
Questions swirl around the most lethal pandemics in history - the Black Death killed a higher proportion of the world’s population, but the Spanish Flu, which started in 1918, killed more people. This...
23 Jan 202425min
A Nation Revolts!
A sealed train speeds through war-torn Europe to deliver revolution to Russia. This week it’s 1917 and we’re travelling with Neil to St Petersburg as Lenin arrives and the world is turned on its head!...
16 Jan 202423min
The Day When The World Turns On its Axis!
Your country needs you! This week we travel with Neil and the Pals Battalions to France. It’s 7.30 a.m. on the first day of the battle of the Somme, the deadliest day in British military history.To he...
9 Jan 202435min
Striking It Rich!
Beyond the dreams of avarice! In this episode George Reynolds and his team of prospectors discover the world’s largest oil field, and as the black gold begins to flow unbelievable wealth, and oil’s by...
2 Jan 202424min
Up, Up & Away!
Two magnificent men and their flying machine change the world and our relationship to it. In this episode, it’s 1903, and we travel with Neil to Kitty Hawk in North Carolina to meet Orville and Wilbur...
26 Des 202326min
A Terrifying Insight
A chronic gambler who suffered epileptic seizures all his life and faced the firing squad for disseminating banned literature. This week we travel with Neil to the year 1876 and meet Dostoyevsky as he...
19 Des 202329min
The Man Who Saw Light For What It Is
In this episode Neil takes us to Edinburgh, Scotland in the late 1800s to meet a forgotten scientific hero, the physicist, James Clerk Maxwell.To help support this podcast & get exclusive videos every...
12 Des 202331min
The ‘Beautiful Game’ is born!
In this episode we travel with Neil to London, England as the rules of a sport, that will go viral around the world, are being set down in stone. Philosophy of belonging, passion and sometimes brutali...
5 Des 202329min
