All Episodes

#42 The violence backfired - Ep 6 The Secret History of the Suffragettes

#41 The Violence the Suffragettes wouldn't admit to - Ep 5 The Secret History of the Suffragettes

#37 Hunger strikes and forced feeding - Ep 4 The Secret History of the Suffragettes

#36 The Pankhursts didn't want the poor to get the vote - Ep 3 The Secret History of the Suffragettes

#35 Most women didn't want the vote - Ep 2 The Secret History of the Suffragettes

#34 Getting the vote in 1918: 'marvellous leadership' - Ep 1 The Secret History of the Suffragettes

#130 'The real mystery of 1492' - Ep 7 Columbus - legend and loser

#129 ‘It’s a joke’ - Ep 6 Columbus - legend and loser

#128 No more Mr Nice Guy - Ep 5 Columbus - legend and loser

#127 'They eat human flesh' - Ep 4 Columbus - legend and loser

#126 'Seven head of women' - Ep 3 Columbus - legend and loser

#125 The torrid affair - Ep 2 Columbus - legend and loser

#124 Columbus was invented in 1777 - Ep 1 Columbus - legend and loser

# 40 Henry VIII: Pope Clement, Katherine, Anne and Florence

# 52 Anne Boleyn - Henry VIII's MacGuffin

# 51 Marrying Anne Boleyn, the best of a bad job - Ep 6 Henry VIII: the king, his wife, his lover, the French

# 50 No more menage à trois - Ep 5 Henry VIII: the king, his wife, his lover, the French

# 49 Like an episode of the Borgias - Ep 4 Henry VIII: the king, his wife, his lover, the French

# 46 Missions Impossible - Ep 3 Henry VIII: the king, his wife, his lover, the French

# 45 The Jilting of Princess Mary - Ep 2 Henry VIII: the king, his wife, his lover, the French

#44 Anne Boleyn did not hold out on Henry - Ep 1 Henry VIII: the king, his wife, his lover, the French

#39 Newton and the Occult - Ep 2 Was Newton the last of the magicians?

#38 Newton the Alchemist - Ep 1 Was Newton the last of the magicians?

#123 Pissing on bagpipes - Ep 5 Shakespeare and the Groundlings

#122 Queen Elizabeth's Toyboy - Ep 4 Shakespeare and the Groundlings

#121 The naked King Lear - Ep 3 Shakespeare and the Groundlings

#120 'Hang, beg, starve' - Ep 2 Shakespeare and the Groundlings

#119 'Fair is foul and foul is fair' - Ep 1 Shakespeare and the Groundlings

#96 Extortioners and hatchet men - Ep 5 What Wars? What Roses?

#95 Murder in the Tower - Ep 4 What Wars? What Roses?

#94 'Political gangsterdom' - Ep 4 What Wars? What Roses?

#93 'A plague on both your houses' - Ep 2 What Wars? What Roses?

#92 'Welcome traitor!' - Ep 1 What Wars? What Roses?

#107 This is Armageddon - Ep 7 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum - Neoliberalism uncut

#106 Dark make-believe - Ep 6 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum - Neoliberalism uncut

#105 Smears, imprisonment, assassination - Ep 5 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum - Neoliberalism uncut

#104 Catch 22 - Ep 4 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

#103 Disinformation didn't start with Donald Trump - Ep 3 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

#102 'The cuckoo in the Nobel nest' - Ep 2 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

#101 'everything absolutely maxed out' - Ep 1 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

#32 The curious case of inventing Scottishness

#06 London fires were visible from France - Ep 6 Who really won the Battle of Britain?

#05 Forcing Britain 'to her knees' - Ep 5 Who really won the Battle of Britain?

#4 More than a double bluff - Ep 4 Who really won the Battle of Britain?

#03 'Always carry pepper to throw in their eyes' - Ep 3 Who Really won the Battle of Britain?

#02 A battle for air superiority? - Ep 2 Who really won the Battle of Britain?

#01 Waterworld Flotilla - Ep 1 Who really won the Battle of Britain?

#118 'She will be called a man' (Jerome) - Ep 6 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church

#117 The Rich man and Melania - Ep 5 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church

#116 Chariot races in church - Ep 4 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church

#115 The Missing Women - Ep 3 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church

#114 The Missing Link - Ep 2 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church

#113 Whatever happened to Saint Peter? - Ep 1 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church

#16 The Men behind the Myth - Ep 7 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?

#15 'The Fourteenth Day' - Ep 6 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?

#14 'Eyeball to eyeball' - Ep 5 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis

#13 'Russian roulette' - Ep 4 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?

#12 'The only way to save Cuba' - Ep 3 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?

#11 Fidel Castro was not a communist - Ep 2 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?

#10 'These missiles do not significantly alter the balance of power' - Ep 1 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?

#112 Loss, love and the struggle to stay alive in 1912

#31 'Remember, remember, the fifth of November' - Ep 8 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot

#30 'A tall and desperate fellow' - Ep 7 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot

#29 The King's Fear - Ep 6 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot

#28 'A formidable network of secret agents' - Ep 5 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot

#27 'Hellish miners' - Ep 4 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot

#26 Why blow up Parliament anyway? - Ep 3 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot

#25 'Here lieth the Toad' - Ep 2 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot

#24 'There is no state trial so totally devoid of reality' - Ep 1 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot

#67 The King, the lies and the whitewash - Ep 7 Nightmare in the trenches 1914-16

#66 The British who cheated on the Somme - Ep 6 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16

#65 Haig's war crime on the Somme - Ep 5 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16

#64 They had the wrong guns - Ep 4 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16

#63 The generals never studied how to attack trenches - Ep 3 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16

#62 They refused to take orders - Ep 2 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914:16

#61 They just pretended to shoot - Ep 1 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16

#109 A quietly brilliant palace coup - Ep 3 - 2 May 1937: the king, his wife, their Führer, the lobster

#108 'I wish, myself, to talk to Hitler' - Ep 2 - 2 May 1937: the King, his wife, their Führer, the lobster

#07 That Dress - Ep 1 - 2 May 1937: the King, his wife, their Führer, the lobster'

#111 A live donkey or a dead lion? - Ep 4 Amundsen vs Scott - a very British failure

#110 ‘the worst has happened’ - Ep 3 Scott vs Amundsen - a very British failure

#109 The Worst Journey in the World - Ep 2 Scott vs Amundsen - a very British failure

#108 Lop Ears and Jackass Ep 1 Scott vs Amundsen - a very British failure

#59 The crimes of the rector George Wilson Bridges - Ep 5 Money not Morality ended British enslavement

#58 The ship that sank and took the slave trade down with it - Ep 4 Money not Morality ended British enslavement

#56 The Empire strikes back - Ep 3 Money not Morality ended British enslavement

#55 The woman behind the abolition of slavery - Ep 2 Money not Morality ended British enslavement

#54 'Slavery was even worse than we thought' - Ep 1 Money not Morality ended British enslavement

#72 It was mainly the poor who burned - Ep 5 Bloody Mary Tudor?

#71 Most who were burned were not Protestants - Ep 4 Bloody Mary Tudor?

#70 More interested in pirates than heretics - Ep 3 Bloody Mary Tudor?

#69 Who exactly was a heretic? - Ep 2 Bloody Mary Tudor?

#68 Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! - Ep 1 Bloody Mary Tudor?

#79 Santa Claus and the Knickerbockers

#107 This is Armageddon - Ep 7 Lunatics take over the Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

#106 Dark make-believe - Ep 6 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

#105 Smears, imprisonment, assassination - Ep 5 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

#104 Catch 22 - Ep 4 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

#103 Disinformation didn't start with Donald Trump - Ep 3 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

#102 'The Cuckoo in the Nobel nest' - Ep 2 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut