Cellini: Bad Boy of the Renaissance
Benvenuto Cellini was the bad boy of the Renaissance! His life was a story of murders, violence, war, the sack of cities, sodomy, imprisonment, religious conversion, prodigious artistic talent and wri...
24 Apr 202127min
Football, Money and the European Super League
The attempt to create a new European Super League might have been short-lived with the attempt to form a breakaway competition collapsing in the face of widespread protests and denunciations from fans...
23 Apr 202133min
Shakespeare's Shoreditch Theatre with Heather Knight
In this archive episode, Dan visits the site of The Theatre, the 16th-century playhouse where some of Shakespeare's works were first performed, to investigate the archaeology with Heather Knight, Seni...
22 Apr 202124min
Lessons from the Antonine Plague
A plague which affects people from across society, the mass exodus from city centres and numerous opinions on how best to stay well ... all familiar to people today, but also to the people of the 2nd ...
21 Apr 202133min
Lady Mary and the First Inoculation
In the 18th century, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was an aristocrat, courtier, brilliant beauty, intellectual, wife to the ambassador to the Ottoman Empire and a sufferer from smallpox. It was during her...
20 Apr 202124min
Prisoners of Geography
Five years ago Tim Marshall wrote the international best selling book Prisoners of Geography which examined how our politics, demographics, our economies and societies are determined by geography. Tim...
19 Apr 202120min
300 years of British Prime Ministers: Part 3
In the third episode of our series chronicling the history of British Prime Ministers we travel from one of the Most famous occupants of the office, Winston Churchill, right through to the current inc...
18 Apr 202149min
Irish Independence
On 18th April 1949, the Republic of Ireland Act came into effect which saw Ireland become a republic and leave the Commonwealth. 2021 also marks the 100th anniversary of the end of the Irish War of in...
16 Apr 202127min
