The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Part 5 "The End"
When we left the series last week, we'd almost reached the end of the road for John Wilkes Booth and David Harold. After 10 days on the run the net had started to tighten around them, and the pair wer...
13 Jan 202329min
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Part 4 "The Chase"
When we left our series last week in Part 3, two members of John Wilkes Booth's gang had not managed to make it out of the city following their own failed assassination attempts on the Vice President ...
6 Jan 202328min
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Part 3 "The Failures"
When we last left the story we had skipped back in time to meet John Wilkes Booth's co-conspirators - Lewis Powell (who changed his name to Lewis Payne), David Harold, George Azerodt, and John Surratt...
30 Dec 202225min
Christmas Day Truce in the trenches of World War 1, 1914
In this episode we are going to the trenches of World War 1, where soldiers waited in the cold and mud for the next call to battle that would likely claim their very lives. But out of one of the most ...
24 Dec 202214min
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Part 2 "The Plot"
After Lincoln passed away, the country reacted with a combination of shock and grief that exploded into a furious public search to find his killer. That manhunt is going to be the focus of our final e...
16 Dec 202227min
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Part 1 "The Killing"
In our podcast this week, we are going to take you back to the beginning of a pivotal day in American History - the tragic Good Friday in 1865, as we walk through the final day of the life of the grea...
9 Dec 202225min
Cleopatra: Lost and (maybe) found
In this episode we take a look at the recent discovery at Taposiris Magna in Egypt, and the possibility that the greatest archeological find since King Tut might be waiting in the very near future, Cl...
2 Dec 202221min
Operation Tracer: WW2 mission to hide six soldiers inside the Rock of Gibraltar
In 1942 with France already fallen and Nazi Germany tightening their grip on the remaining free countries of Europe, the British drew up plans for a daring operation to spy on Hitler's movement across...
25 Nov 202215min
