Podcast episode

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.

Should we stop talking about the crusades?.

The golden age of the country house.

Nelson: a life of heroism and scandal.

Medieval make do and mend.

Thomas Cromwell: the triumph and tragedy of Henry VIII's right-hand man.

Gladiator tales.

Lord Lucan: the vanishing earl.

How Stalin won WW2.

Decoding Mary, Queen of Scots.

Telling the story of modern Jerusalem.

Satan & the sabbath: witchhunting in the Basque Country.

Cocaine: a Victorian sensation.

Medieval women: friendship, wanderlust and the medieval hustle.

Chris Packham & Peter Frankopan: can history help tackle the climate crisis?.

Tudor spymaster: the secret machinations of Robert Cecil.

Roman slavery: a brutal life in the ancient empire.

Imperial spectacle: inside Britain's 1924 'Empire Exhibition'.

Why did people kill for Hitler?.