85 Your Country Needs You! World War I
In this episode Horatio Herbert Kitchener, the secretary of state for war, declares, Your Country Needs You!The First World War meant that Britain had to raise a new army from volunteers, so the call ...
4 Jan 202230min
84 World War I, Isle of Skye
In this episode we’re travelling over the sea to Skye, an island of ancient jagged crags and rare breath-taking beauty, which feels as though it’s washed in heaven’s tears.When the first world war was...
28 Des 202136min
83 Titanic, Belfast
In this episode we join Neil as he steps aboard the Titanic, one of the most iconic ships in the world. For Neil this a pivotal moment in history, which marks a point when the world changed forever.Wh...
21 Des 202133min
82 Breeding Babies for Success, Cardiff
In this episode, powered by their fabulous fecundity and political astuteness, the Stuart family line inherited the Scottish and English crowns and spread their power and influence right across the Br...
14 Des 202132min
81 Great British Seaside, Scarborough
In this episode we’re putting on our best and strolling along a stylish promenade in Scarborough, the ‘Nice of the North’ to pay homage to the Great British seaside tradition.The tentacles of Scarboro...
7 Des 202126min
80 A Deadly Tug of War! Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland
In this episode we stride around the Elizabethan battlements of a town held ready for war!Berwick-upon-Tweed is a place packed to bursting with thousands of years of rich history.Celtic Britons made i...
30 Nov 202126min
79 Splitting the Atom, Rutherford building, Manchester
In this episode we travel with Neil to meet the man who split the atom!Ernest Rutherford’s father said to his children, ‘without money we have to think’ – and think Ernest did. Ernest’s brain took him...
23 Nov 202136min
78 Great Victorian Endeavour, White Cliffs of Dover, Kent
In this episode we’re in the midst of the great Victorian engineering revolution as the dream to reconnect with Europe begins. 8,000 years ago the Storegga Slide hit and severed the British Isles from...
16 Nov 202124min
