All Episodes

Should The Koh-I-Noor Be Returned? Mamdani vs King Charles III EXPLAINED

355. Liberator of Latin America: Napoleon & The Legions of Hell (Part 2)

354. Liberator of Latin America: Simón Bolívar vs The Spanish Empire (Part 1)

353. Hezbollah, Hostages, & Exploding Pagers (Part 8)

352. Israel’s 1982 Invasion of Lebanon (Part 7)

351. Camp David: The Day Israel & Egypt Made Peace (Part 6)

350. 1973: The Yom Kippur War & The First Oil Crisis (Part 5)

What Is Life Like For Palestinians Under Occupation?

349. Occupation of The West Bank (Part 4)

348. How 1967 Changed The Middle East Forever (Part 3)

Jung Chang On Life Under Mao & Being Banned From China

347. The Six Day War (Part 2)

346. From Suez To The Palestinian Liberation Organisation (Part 1)

345. Chairman Mao: The Cultural Revolution (Ep 6)

344. Chairman Mao: The Great Leap Forward (Ep 5)

Christiane Amanpour On Iran & Trump’s Miscalculations

343. Lebanon: Hezbollah, Israel, & Fifty Years As A Battleground

342. Iran: The Three Ayatollahs – From Revolution to Dynasty

341. Chairman Mao: The Clash With Stalin (Ep 4)

340. Chairman Mao: World War II, Japanese Invasion, & Massacre in Nanjing (Ep 3)

339. Chairman Mao: China's Communist Uprising (Ep 2)

338.Chairman Mao: Birth of A Dictator (Ep 1)

337. Bronze Age Apocalypse: Philistines, Israelites, & Rebuilding The Ruins (Ep 6)

336. Bronze Age Apocalypse: How To Survive The End of The World (Ep 5)

335. Bronze Age Apocalypse: Solving The Mystery of The Collapse (Ep 4)

334. Bronze Age Apocalypse: Did Homer Write History? (Ep 3)

333. Bronze Age Apocalypse: The Fall of Troy with Stephen Fry (Ep 2)

332. Bronze Age Apocalypse: Before The Collapse (Ep 1)

331. The Iranian Revolution: Will The Shah Return To Iran? (Ep 2)

330. The Iranian Revolution: 1979 vs. 2026 (Ep 1)

329. Indian Uprising 1857: The British Raj is Born (Part 8)

328. Indian Uprising 1857: The Reign of Terror (Part 7)

327. Indian Uprising 1857: The British Strike Back (Part 6)

326. Indian Uprising 1857: India’s Joan of Arc – Rani of Jhansi (Part 5)

325. Indian Uprising 1857: The Siege of Lucknow (Part 4)

324. Indian Uprising 1857: Massacre and Revenge in Kanpur (Part 3)

323. Indian Uprising 1857: The Rebels March On Delhi (Part 2)

322. Indian Uprising 1857: The Mutiny (Part 1)

321. Exploding Rum-filled Coffins, Anglo-Indian Sisterhood, & Julia Margaret Cameron

320. Photos That Shook The World: Exposing Leopold in The Congo

319. Heist of St Nicolas: The Medieval Mafia Who Stole Santa (Part 2)

318. Heist of St Nicolas: Raiding Santa's Tomb (Part 1)

317. Churchill's Photographer: From Escaping Genocide to MLK

316. Hitler's Photographer: Nazi Secrets, Eva Braun, & Escaping Justice

315. Controversy, Colonialism, & V.S. Naipaul

314. Rudyard Kipling: Villain or Visionary? (Part 3)

313. Rudyard Kipling: Escaping India & Writing The Jungle Book (Part 2)

312. Rudyard Kipling: Son of Empire (Part 1)

311. Cricket In India: Beating The Brits At Their Own Game (Part 2)

310. The Origin of The Ashes & The Killer Cricket Scandal (Part 1)

309. Tintin, Nazis, & Soviets

308. Asterix and Obelix, Babar The Elephant, & Colonial Cartoons

307. Austen vs Brontë: Unmasking Slavery Heiresses

306. Joseph Conrad: From Russian Exile To The Heart of Darkness

305. Orwell: Dark Secrets, The CIA, & His Forgotten Failures (Part 4)

304. Orwell: Animal Farm, 1984 & Totalitarian Dystopia (Part 3)

303. Orwell: Fighting Fascism In The Spanish Civil War (Part 2)

302. Orwell: The Anti-Imperialist In India & Burma (Part 1)

301. Gaza: The First Arab-Israeli War & The Creation of The Gaza Strip (Part 11)

300. Gaza: The 1948 War (Part 10)

299. Gaza: The Palestinian Revolt, The Black and Tans, & Bomber Harris (Part 9)

298. Gaza: The British Occupation of Palestine (Part 8)

297. Gaza in WW1: A Rematch For Gallipoli (Part 7)

296. Ottoman Gaza: Gunpowder Conquests & Rising Nationalism (Part 6)

295. Crusader Gaza: Saladin & Richard The Lionheart (Part 5)

294. Gaza & The Islamic Conquest (Part 4)

293. The Gaza Erotic Literature Festival: Byzantine Gaza (Part 3)

292. Ancient Gaza: From The Assyrians to The Romans (Part 2)

291. Ancient Gaza: The Philistines (Part 1)

290. Medieval India’s Alexander The Great: The Cholas (Part 2)

289. Medieval India’s Game of Thrones: The Cholas (Part 1)

288. Suez Crisis: The End of The British Empire (Part 5)

287. Suez Crisis: Lies, Cyanide Pills, & Soviet Tanks (Part 4)

286. Suez Crisis: Hungary Revolts & Britain Bombs Egypt (Part 3)

285. Suez Crisis: The Secret Meeting Between Israel, Britain & France (Part 2)

284. Suez Crisis: The British Imperialist vs The Arab Nationalist (Part 1)

283. Partition: East Pakistan Becomes Bangladesh (Part 6)

282. Partition: The Birth of The Kashmir Conflict (Part 5)

281. Partition: Why Was India Split In Two? (Part 4)

280. Partition: The Creation of Pakistan (Part 3)

279. Partition: How Dubai Almost Became Part of India (Part 2)

278. Partition: India’s Break With Burma (Part 1)

277. America Drills Through Hell’s Gorge (Part 5)

276. The Biggest Corruption Scandal in French History (Part 4)

The Great Fire of London

275. The Battle To Build The Panama Canal (Part 3)

274. Pirates of Panama: Francis Drake Strikes Spain's Empire (Part 2)

273. Panama’s Brutish Conquistador Who Found The Pacific and Lost His Head (Part 1)

272. Solving The Mystery of America's Lost Colony

271. Canada’s Dark Secret: Stolen Children, Unmarked Graves, & Survival Stories (Ep 5)

270. The Day The Brits Burned The White House (Ep 4)

269. Colonising Canada: The Truth Behind ‘The Last of The Mohicans’ (Ep 3)

268. Colonising Canada: Why Does Quebec Speak French? (Ep 2)

267. Colonising Canada: Kidnapping, Scurvy, & Fool’s Gold (Ep 1)

266. American Greenland: Nazis, Secret Nuclear Bases, & Trump (Ep 4)

265. Danish Greenland: Eradicating Inuit Culture (Ep 3)

264. Viking Greenland: Mysteries of the Lost Norse Settlers (Ep 2)

Murder in the Congo, The Cuban Missile Crisis, & India in the UN (EXTRACT)

263. Viking Greenland: Erik The Red & Horny Zombies (Ep 1)

262. Berlin Blockade: Airlift Across The Iron Curtain (Ep 2)

261. Race To Berlin 1945: A Devastated City Divided (Ep 1)

260. Yalta: Signing Away The Fate of The World (Ep 5)

259. Eastern Europe & “The Great Betrayal” (Ep 4)

258. The Big Three & The Big Carve Up (Ep 3)

257. Churchill, FDR, & Mind Games at Yalta (Ep 2)

256. Stalin & 8 Days That Changed The World (Ep 1)

255. Victorian Narcos: From Opium To Fentanyl (Ep 9)

254. Victorian Narcos: Fire Monkeys, Iron Gunships, & Peasant Warfare (Ep 8)

253. Victorian Narcos: Drug Dealers Lead Britain to War (Ep 7)

252. Victorian Narcos: Selling Drugs To The Queen (Ep 6)

251. Victorian Narcos: Flooding China With Indian Opium (Ep 5)

250. Victorian Narcos: Banished From Beijing (Ep 4)

249. Victorian Narcos: Doomed Envoy to China (Ep 3)

248. Victorian Narcos: Sex, Drugs, & The Opium Agency (Ep 2)

247. Victorian Narcos: Tea Starts A Drug War (Ep 1)

246. Ireland Transformed: From Banning Condoms to Exporting Viagra

245. Inside The Good Friday Agreement with Alastair Campbell

244. The Troubles: IRA Secrets Exposed (Ep 4)

243. The Troubles: London Bombings, Hunger Strikes, & The Graveside Grenade (Ep 3)

242. The Troubles: Bloody Sunday & The British Army in Belfast (Ep 2)

241. The Troubles: War in the Streets of Northern Ireland (Ep 1)

240. Ireland’s Fight For Freedom: The Irish Civil War (Ep 3)

239. Ireland’s Fight For Freedom: The Rise of The IRA (Ep 2)

238. Ireland’s Fight For Freedom: The Easter Rising (Ep 1)

237. The Great Famine: The Irish Exodus to America (Ep 2)

236. The Great Famine: The Blight Strikes Ireland (Ep 1)

235. The Viceroy, The Psychopath, and The Merchant: The Irish in Empire (Ep 3)

234. Battle of the Boyne: Clash of Two Kings (Ep 2)

233. Blood and Betrayal: Oliver Cromwell's Irish Invasion (Ep 1)

Legacy: Genghis Khan

232. Colonising Ireland: The First Plantations (Ep 2)

231. Colonising Ireland: Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, & The Tudor Conquest (Ep 1)

230. Britain’s Last Colony: Trump, Brexit, and Russia-Ukraine (Ep 2)

229. Britain’s Last Colony: The Second World War, Forced Deportations, and 9/11 (Ep 1)

228. The Man Who Lived A Thousand Lives: Prisoner of War (Ep 2)

227. The Man Who Lived A Thousand Lives: Taming Nature (Ep 1)

226. The Rise and Fall of East India Company Painting (Ep 2)

225. Painting the Empire: Art of the East India Company (Ep 1)

224. Empire in Your Garden

223. Empire of Plants: From Kew Gardens to Botany Bay

222. The Downfall of the Mughals (Ep 3)

221. War of Succession: The Battle That Shook India (Ep 2)

220. Battle of Brothers: The Puritan vs The Mystic (Ep 1)

219. Building The Taj Mahal: Love, Loss, & Splendour (Ep 2)

218. Creator of The Taj Mahal: Shah Jahan’s Rise to Power (Ep 1)

217. Zebras and Zodiacs: Jahangir’s Art Revolution

216. Seeds of British India: England’s First Ambassador to the Mughal Court

215. Jahangir: A World of Light And Darkness

214. The Empire of Frankincense & Myrrh

213. How Three Wise Men Became Three Kings

212. Who Were The Three Wise Men?

211. A Beautiful World: The Art of Akbar

210. Akbar the Great: Revolutionising Religious Tolerance

209. Akbar the Great

208. Humayun Reconquers India

207. The Stargazing Hippie vs The Lion King

206. Babur: Guns, Gardens & Diamonds

205. Babur: The Taking of Delhi

204. Babur: The First Mughal Emperor

203. Captain Hook, Peter Pan & The Dark Side of Neverland

202. Long John Silver: The Truth Behind Treasure Island

201. The Raj at War

200. The East India Company’s Global Manhunt

199. Robbing the World’s Wealthiest Dynasty

198. The Pirate Trial of the Century

197. The Pirate Hunter

196. Blackbeard’s Reign of Terror

195. Blackbeard & the Pirates of the Caribbean

194. Empire of Numbers: Fibonacci and the Birth of Modern Money

193. Empire of Numbers: The Indian Origin of Arabic Numerals

192. Native American Chiefs, the Founding of Canada, and the KKK: Scots in America

191. Slave, Slaver, Abolitionist: Three Scots in Africa

190. Rags to Riches: The Scots in India

189. Culloden: Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Last Stand

188. Bonnie Prince Charlie: The Young Pretender

187. The Birth of Britain

186. Scotland: A Nation in Crisis

185. The God Kings of Angkor Wat

184. The Buddhist Merlin

183. The Poet Kings: Taking Hinduism to Southeast Asia

182. The Lady Macbeth of China

181. The Dragon Empress: China’s Game of Thrones

180. Gold & God: Connecting India & Ancient Rome

179. The Golden Road: Rise of the Indosphere

178. The Vietnam War: Nixon, Vietnamisation, and the Fall of Saigon

177. The Vietnam War: Lyndon Johnson, Americanisation, and Operation Rolling Thunder

176. The Vietnam War: The Rise of Ho Chi Minh

175. The CIA vs Fidel Castro

174. The Cuban Revolution

173. The Korean War: Dividing the Peninsula

172. The Birth of North Korea

171. The Bengal Famine: Chaos in Calcutta

170. The Bengal Famine: A Disaster on the Horizon

169. Freedom Fighters Betrayed: Colonising the Philippines

168. Teddy Roosevelt Takes on the Old World

167. Paradise Lost: The Taking of Hawaii

166. How To Hide An Empire

165. A Massacre at Dawn

164. How the West was Won: The Truth Behind the Westerns

163. The Tattooed Girl: From Mormon to Native American

162. The Oregon Trail & the Gold Rush

161. The Trail of Tears

160. Native Nations vs Thomas Jefferson

159. The American Revolution: Building The New Rome (Ep 4)

158. The American Revolution: Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of Happiness (Ep 3)

157. The American Revolution: The Shot Heard Around the World (Ep 2)

156. The American Revolution: No Taxation Without Representation (Ep 1)

155. The Founding Fathers: Benjamin Franklin (Ep 5)

154. The Founding Fathers: John Adams (Ep 4)

153. The Founding Fathers: Alexander Hamilton (Ep 3)

152. The Founding Fathers: Thomas Jefferson (Ep 2)

151. The Founding Fathers: George Washington (Ep 1)

150. Worlds Colliding: Seizing Settlers in New England

149. Pocahontas: Kidnapped in Virginia

148. America: The Empire of Liberty

147. Queen Victoria: Empress of India (Ep 4)

146. Queen Victoria: The Empire on Which the Sun Never Sets (Ep 3)

145. Victoria & Albert (Ep 2)

144. The Making of Queen Victoria (Ep 1)

143. Isabella of Castile: The Spanish Inquisition, the Conquest of Granada, and Columbus

142. Isabella of Castile: Uniting Spain

141. Nur Jahan: The Most Powerful Mughal Woman

140. Nur Jahan: The Light of the World

139. Mrs Genghis Khan

138. The Graceful Reed: Ruling the Islamic Empire

137. Empress Theodora: Making Heaven on Earth

136. Empress Theodora: From the Brothel to the Throne

135. Helena: Queen of the World and Finder of the One True Cross

134. Cleopatra: The Would-Be Empress of Rome

133. Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile

132. Journey to Nalanda and the Library of Jewels

131. Buddhism Goes to China

130. India meets Rome: Making the Image of the Buddha

129. Ashoka: The Great Buddhist Emperor of India

128. The Life of the Buddha

127. Inventing Curry: The British Taste for India

126. Punch & Chilli: The East India Company at the Table

125. The Origin of the Houthis

124. Saddam Hussein vs The Ayatollah

123. Hezbollah: The Party of God

122. Iran & Saudi Arabia: The Rivalry that Split the Islamic World

121. The Fall of the Shah of Shahs

120. The Iranian Revolution: The Rise of Ayatollah Khomeini

119. The Last Shah

118. Iran's First Revolution

117. Nader Shah: The Sword of Persia

116. Isfahan: The City of Dreams

115. The Great Conversion: How Iran became Shia

114. The Persian Renaissance

113. Timur: Scourge of God

112. Ferdowsi: How One Poet Saved Persian Civilisation

111. Shackleton: The Hero of Antarctica

110. Antarctica: The Continent that wouldn’t be Conquered

109. The Endeavour: Into the Unknown

108. The Endeavour & the Great Southern Continent

107. China's Greatest Admiral: The Story of Zheng He

106. The Rise of Islam

105. The Last Great War of Antiquity

104. How Persian Religion Changed the World

103. Alexander the Great: Defeating Darius

102. Alexander the Great: The Conquest of Persia

101. Salamis: Athens’ Revenge

100. Thermopylae: Xerxes, Leonidas, and the 300

99. Marathon and the Rise of Greece

98. Darius the Great: Ruling from India to the Mediterranean

97. Cyrus the Great: Building the First Superpower

96. Empires of Iran

95. The History of Putin's War

Welcome to the Empire Club

94. The Bloody History of Russia & Ukraine

93. Murdering the Romanovs: The End of a Dynasty

92. Killing Rasputin

91. Lenin and The Rise of the Bolsheviks

90. The Russian Revolution: Overthrowing the Tsar

89. The Final Act of the Great Game

88. The Russo-Japanese War: Asia Strikes Back

87. Tolstoy: War and the Russian Empire

86. Crushing the Khans: Russia Seizes the Centre of the World

85. The Russian Conquest of America

84. A Tale of Two Nurses: Seacole & Nightingale

83. The Charge of the Light Brigade

82. Crimea: The War on Repeat

81. The Graveyard of Empires

80. 1842: The Retreat from Kabul

79. Invading Afghanistan: The Return of a King

78. The Battle of the Spies

77. The Great Game Begins

76. The Empress & The General

75. Catherine the Great: The Golden Age

74. Peter the Great: The First Emperor

73. Ivan the Terrible and the Founding of Russia

72. The Russian Empire and the Great Game

71. Nazis, reparations, and laws 'just for the English to see'

70. The Haitian Revolution, Dutch royals, and what happened to the Caribs?

69. A Reckoning with Slavery

68. The Long Death of Slavery

67. Slavery's Demise

66. Wilberforce and the Fight for Freedom

65. When the Enslaved Took on Napoleon

64. The Black Spartacus

63. Creating Sierra Leone: The Land of the Free

62. When Slaves Fought for the British Empire

61. The Black Abolitionist

60. Britain's Most Famous Slave

59. Francis Barber: Abolition, the Navy, and the Enlightenment

58. Dr Johnson's Black Heir

57. Tacky's Revolt: An Atlantic Slave War

56. Tacky's Revolt: Causes of the Rebellion

55. The Fall of the Royal African Company

54. Royal African Company: Slavery Inc

53. Barbary Corsairs: Raiding the British isles

52. The Slave who Ruled

51. Vikings: Slavs to Slaves

50. Rome: A Slave Society

49. The Dawn of Everything

48. The History of Slavery

47. Rebels Against the Raj

46. The Mau Mau, the court case, and the hidden documents

45. Successors to the Romans, progressive harems, and living Ottomans

44. The Legacy of the Ottomans, Queen of the Desert, and giant turbans

43. The Birth of Saudi Arabia

42. The Fiery End of the Ottoman Empire

41. The Rise of Ataturk

40. Origins of the Israel-Palestine Conflict

39. Lawrence of Arabia and the Arab Revolt

38. Sykes-Picot: Carving up the Middle-East

37. The Armenian Genocide: Death Marches

36. The Armenian Genocide: Road to the Deportations

35. Gallipoli: Death at the Cliff Edge

34. The Sick Man of Europe

33. Lady Mary: Our Woman in Constantinople

32. The Greatest Ottoman Adventurer

31. Conquering the Night: The History of Coffee

30. Sultanas to Slaves: Voices from the Harem

29. The Tudors and the Turks

28. The Battle of Lepanto

27. The Siege of Cyprus

26. Suspicion and Sorrow in Suleiman's Court

25. Suleiman the Magnificent

24. The Fall of Constantinople

23. The First of the Ottomans

22. Byzantium and the Rise of the Turks

21. The Ottoman Empire

20. Nationhood, the Indian constitution, and the railways

19. Federal India, indentured labour, and naked yogis

18. The Empire Implodes

17. Rishi Sunak's Ancestry: Indians in East Africa

16. Partition

15. The Last Viceroy of India

14. Muhammad Ali Jinnah

13. The Patient Assassin

12. Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary

11. Queens and the Koh-i-Noor

10. Killing for the Koh-i-Noor

9. The Curse of the Koh-i-Noor

8. The Koh-i-Noor Diamond

7. Mahatma Gandhi

6. Queen Elizabeth II & Empire

5. The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

4. Between Two Massacres: 1857-1919

3. Mutiny, Uprising, and Rebellion

2. Company Rule in India

1. The East India Company

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