Podcast episode

Women's bodies: an unreliable history.

Elizabethan London: a multicultural melting pot.

Strange stories of medieval saints.

What is the greatest historical movie of all time?.

How pigs caused a stink in medieval England.

Secret forceps & pig bladders: medical objects through time.

How Roman roads transformed Europe.

Hotel Lux: the guesthouse of world revolution.

How the compass became a political weapon.

Harold Wilson: the rock 'n' roll prime minister.

Who is buried at Sutton Hoo?.

Sex and Christianity: 2,000 years of love and fury.

The Second Norman Conquest.

Arnhem: 24 hours that shattered Allied dreams.

Shipwrecks: a porthole to the past.

How convict labour forged empires.

Secrets of medieval churches.

The massacre that shattered the old Ottoman world.

Medieval relic hunters: the quest for Notre-Dame's crown of thorns.

Tempting treats & festive feats: Christmas shopping down the ages.

Germany's postwar reinvention.

Britain's wild republican decade.

Kublai Khan: ruler of the waves.

Princes in the Tower: could this new discovery solve the mystery?.

The murders at Rillington Place: postwar London's grisliest crimes.

Nelson & Winnie: inside the Mandelas' marriage.

A Victorian cult: inside the strange world of the Agapemone.

Sport's strangest tales.

The bloody road to Rome: liberating Italy from the Nazis in WWII.

The invisible tracks that have shaped the world.