Obama and Merkel: The Extraordinary Partnership
U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are two of the world’s most influential leaders, together at the centre of some of the biggest controversies and most impressive advance...
9 Jan 202225min
1921 Census: Revealed
For the first time, the 1921 Census of England & Wales is now publicly available, only online at the family history website, Findmypast. More detailed than any previous British census taken up to that...
7 Jan 202228min
Democratic Decline
The 6th of January marks one year since the United States Capitol attack of 2021, whereby a mob of supporters of Republican President Donald J. Trump stormed the Capitol Building. On today’s anniversa...
6 Jan 202236min
Sitting Bull: the Life and Death of a Native American Chief
Sitting Bull, best known for his initiative and victory at the Battle of Little Bighorn, is a greatly revered Native American Chief. But he was more than a fierce leader of his people. Bestowed the na...
5 Jan 202251min
Treasures of Ancient Egypt
Ramesses the Great, ego in the ancient world and Tutankhamun's sacred underwear. These are all covered in today's episode with Dr Campbell Price about the treasures that will be housed in the new Gran...
4 Jan 202221min
Tutankhamun: Life, Legacy and Discovery
Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered by Howard Carter almost 100 years ago, and two years later they opened up the stone sarcophagus that held the golden coffin containing the mummy of Tutankhamun. In th...
3 Jan 202229min
Climate Catastrophe in the 17th century
Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides - the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were both unprecedented and widespread. A global crisis extended from England to Japan, and f...
2 Jan 202234min
Sex in the Middle Ages
Please note that this episode contains conversation about sex that you might not want to listen to in the presence of children.What did medieval people really think about sex, and were those thoughts ...
31 Dec 202123min
