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1357 episodes transcribedThe Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) was the women's branch of the British Army during the Second World War. Formed in 1938 it saw many thousands o...
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Please note that this episode contains the use of explicit language right from the very beginning. Ridley Scott, a prolific director and pr...
Actor and former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger joins Dan in conversation on today's podcast about Winston Churchill, who was born on th...
Winston Churchill was many things a writer, politician, journalist, painter but the defining aspect of his career was as a war leader. Warfare infused...
The result of his complicated legacy, the death of South Africa's last apartheid president, F W de Klerk, on November 11 2021 generated a flood of dif...
From Gladiator to Rome Total War to Star Wars, today the Praetorians are one of the most distinctive military units of Imperial Rome. It was their job...
Thomas Kendrick was at the very centre of British Intelligence operations throughout the first half of the twentieth century. He combined a public fac...
Over a million Indian soldiers served during the First World War, but many of the records of the soldiers who fought valiantly for the Allied cause ha...
The British Monarchy is a thread that has run throughout the history of Britain but over the centuries it has been a constantly evolving institution....
Everyone who was alive at the time remembers the day President John F. Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas, Texas on the 22 November 1963. On this anniver...
When and why did we start keeping hamsters as pets? When was sign language first used in the UK? If you were planning a bank heist, which historical f...
At the end of the World War One, around one million citizens of the British Empire had been lost, and the whereabouts of about half of these was unkno...
Hoaxes and magic were widespread in 18th century Britain. From a woman who claimed to birth rabbits, to a man who said he’d climb into a bottle in fro...
During World War One, Britain and its empire mobilised soldiers on a hitherto unprecedented scale. That required a huge logistical effort to feed, equ...
