Tudor ladies-in-waiting: the women who served Henry VIII's queens
Every queen had ladies in waiting, but few of those royal companions witnessed such tumult as the women who served the six queens of Henry VIII. Speaking to Kev Lochun, Dr Nicola Clark discusses how t...
12 Maj 202437min
Ancient Greek theatre: everything you wanted to know
Was tragedy or comedy the crowd favourite of the ancient Greek stage? Were audiences raucous and rowdy, or quiet and civilised? And how much do modern theatrical productions draw on their ancient ante...
11 Maj 202447min
The Tattooist of Auschwitz: is it ok to fictionalise the Holocaust?
Is it ever appropriate to fictionalise the Holocaust? That's a question highlighted by the controversies surrounding The Tattooist of Auschwitz, a 2018 novel by Heather Morris, which sold millions acr...
9 Maj 202427min
WW2's greatest battles | 4. El Alamein
In October 1942, Axis and Allied forces went head-to-head in the North African desert. Fighting over access to the Suez Canal and crucial oil fields, tanks and infantrymen slogged it out across sand d...
8 Maj 202436min
Shardlake: bringing the Tudor murder mystery to the screen
Based on the bestselling novels of CJ Sansom, Disney+'s new Tudor drama Shardlake is a 16th-century whodunnit that takes place during the tumult of the dissolution of the monasteries. The show's histo...
7 Maj 202427min
Kublai Khan: life of the week
Kublai Khan will go down in history as the man who cemented the Mongol empire's status as the one of the mightiest powers in the world – and changed the course of Chinese history in the process. In ou...
6 Maj 202436min
Inside a Jim Crow asylum
In March 1911, twelve Black men were brought to a forest in Maryland. Under supervision, they cleared land and laid foundations for what would become the Crownsville Hospital, a segregated mental asyl...
5 Maj 202441min
The Spartans: Everything You Wanted to Know
How remarkable was the Spartans' yesstalwart resistance against the Persians at Thermopylae? Was their military training as tough as historians would have us believe? And just how austere were they? T...
4 Maj 202452min
