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Battle of Britain: WW2's greatest battles.

How Kissinger transformed the Cold War.

British prime minister Harold Wilson, March 1967. (Photo by Michael Stroud/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Harold Wilson: 5 facts about the Labour Party prime minister

Conspiracy Revisited: The JFK assassination – Oswald’s second murder.

History Behind the Headlines: the Bengal famine.

Spying in the Troubles: the murky world of double agents in Northern Ireland.

Video podcastTokyo’s devastating 1923 earthquake.

Conspiracy Revisited: The JFK assassination – 95 per cent certain?.

Video podcastThe Britons who rebuilt postwar Germany.

Old cobblestone footpath at a park.

Danny Robins' paranormal cold casesMy best friend's ghost.

Back in the USSR: the Soviet Sixties.

Video podcastEric 'Winkle' Brown: Britain's most extraordinary pilot.

Ewan Macgregor in 'A Gentleman in Moscow' and the Hotel Metropol in Moscow

The incredible real history of A Gentleman in Moscow’s Hotel Metropol

The real Shirley Chisholm in 1974 and the Regina King in Netflix film 'Shirley'

Is Netflix’s Shirley a true story? The real history behind Chisholm's astonishing achievements

Eric 'Winkle' Brown: Britain's most extraordinary pilot.

Sepia image of workers at a Lancashire cotton mill

How people with learning disabilities thrived in the 20th century.

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: the real history that debunks one of history’s darkest conspiracies

Video podcastConspiracy: who killed JFK?.

Video podcastLife of the Week: Stalin.

Cinemas in New York City, circa 1970.

QuizHistory on the screen

A political earthquake: Britain's first Labour government.

Olivia Colman as Edith Swan in a scene from Wicked Little Letters with her mouth open, looking shocked.

Wicked Little Letters: the true story of Edith Swan, Rose Gooding and the Littlehampton Libels

From Russia to Texas: the search for a Jewish homeland.

Labour’s leap to power.

The man who ran Auschwitz: the real story of The Zone of Interest.

Alcatraz: everything you wanted to know.

The perimeter fence of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.

Holocaust podcast episodes

Silhouette of a ghost in an old property.

Danny Robins' paranormal cold casesThe ghost of Elizabeth Dacre.

The EU: from Maastricht to Brexit.

Stonewall: the 1969 fight for gay rights.