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- Publication Date | Apr 23, 2024Duration | 00:46:10Publication Date | Apr 23, 2024Duration | 00:46:10Pontius Pilate was the Roman Prefect of Judea during the reign of Emperor Tiberius and is most famous for condemning Jesus of Nazareth to death by crucifixion in the Four Gospels. But who really was he? And how...
- Publication Date | Apr 22, 2024Duration | 00:31:27Publication Date | Apr 22, 2024Duration | 00:31:27The English won a decisive battlefield victory over the French in the first decade of the Hundred Years' War. At the Battle of Crécy, an outnumbered English army went up against thousands of French mounted knig...
- Publication Date | Apr 21, 2024Duration | 00:38:55Publication Date | Apr 21, 2024Duration | 00:38:55On the 1st of April, 2024, a presumed Israeli airstrike destroyed the Iranian consulate in Damascus, killing 13 people. Amongst them was a Brigadier General of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Moh...
- Publication Date | Apr 17, 2024Duration | 00:41:58Publication Date | Apr 17, 2024Duration | 00:41:58Fought in the second half of 1942, the Battles of El Alamein were a series of climactic confrontations in Egypt between British Imperial and Commonwealth forces and a combined German and Italian army. Intended ...
Publication Date | Apr 16, 2024Duration | 00:22:27Publication Date | Apr 16, 2024Duration | 00:22:27As a foreign correspondent for ITN in the 70s, Peter Snow remembers handing tins of film to strangers on airport runways, hoping they would take it back to Britain to hand over to his colleagues on the other si...- Publication Date | Apr 15, 2024Duration | 00:44:55Publication Date | Apr 15, 2024Duration | 00:44:55In the mid-17th century, King Charles I of England was put on trial for treason against the sovereign state. Such a process involved a singular determination by Parliament to find a way, through due legal proce...
- Publication Date | Apr 14, 2024Duration | 00:44:08Publication Date | Apr 14, 2024Duration | 00:44:08Dan delves into the complex history of Zionism, exploring its multifaceted origins and the various ideological strands that have shaped it over the years. From its early beginnings in the 19th century to its pi...
- Publication Date | Apr 10, 2024Duration | 00:21:36Publication Date | Apr 10, 2024Duration | 00:21:36From a plague in Athens during the Peloponnesian War in 430 BCE, to another in 540 that wiped out half the population of the Roman empire, down through the Black Death in the Middle Ages and on through the 1918...
- Publication Date | Apr 09, 2024Duration | 00:25:28Publication Date | Apr 09, 2024Duration | 00:25:28Frederick Rutland was one of Britain's finest naval pilots and a celebrated hero of the First World War. And yet in the interwar period, he would become a turncoat, feeding information to Japanese intelligence ...
- Publication Date | Apr 08, 2024Duration | 00:54:24Publication Date | Apr 08, 2024Duration | 00:54:24Join Dan as he narrates the harrowing story of the HMS Wager and its crew's descent into mutiny and survival against all odds. Set against the backdrop of the War of Jenkins' Ear, the Wager, a British warship, ...