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History is full of the extraordinary. Each week, we'll transport you back in time to witness history's most incredible moments and remarkable people. New episodes Mondays, or a week early for Noiser+ subscribers. With Noiser+ you'll also get ad-free listening and exclusive content. For more information, head to noiser.com/subscriptions For advertising enquiries, email info@adelicious.fm Hosted by John Hopkins. Production: Katrina Hughes, Kate Simants, Nicole Edmunds, Jacob Booth, Dorry Macaulay, Rob Plummer, Cody Reynolds-Shaw. Compositions by Oliver Baines, Dorry Macaulay, Tom Pink.

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The White House

Episode Date: October 5, 2025

The White House, at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., is perhaps the most recognisable home in the world. Built soon after the Americans w...

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The Victorians, Part 2 of 2

Episode Date: September 28, 2025

The Victorian era transformed Britain into the world’s foremost industrial and imperial power. The rise of factories saw the expansion of sprawling ci...

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The Victorians, Part 1 of 2

Episode Date: September 21, 2025

Over the course of Queen Victoria’s reign, Britain transformed into the world's foremost industrial and imperial power. The Victorians built railways...

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Bletchley Park

Episode Date: September 14, 2025

During World War II, a country house in Buckinghamshire hosted some of the UK’s top minds as they worked to crack enemy communications, most famously...

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George Orwell

Episode Date: September 7, 2025

Best known for his books Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell earned a reputation as chronicler and prophet of modern society. Plagued...

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The Domesday Book

Episode Date: August 31, 2025

Following the Norman Conquest at the Battle of Hastings, Norman culture transformed the country, as William I governed through force and bureaucracy....

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The Mitford Sisters

Episode Date: August 24, 2025

Rarely out of the papers during their lifetimes, and still figures of fascination in modern media, the six Mitford sisters have become notorious. From...

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Florence Nightingale

Episode Date: August 17, 2025

Revered as a heroine, and mythologised as ‘the Lady with the Lamp’, Florence Nightingale has gone down in history as the founder of modern nursing. Sh...

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Marie Antoinette

Episode Date: August 3, 2025

The last Queen of France before the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette is best known today for her extravagant lifestyle and controversial legacy. In...

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Captain Cook

Episode Date: July 20, 2025

Through his voyages in the eighteenth century, Captain Cook’s work as an explorer contributed to startling advances in scientific knowledge, and mappe...

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The East India Company

Episode Date: July 13, 2025

Over 400 years ago, a bold commercial venture was established to allow an ambitious group of English merchants to send ships halfway around the world...

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The Shroud of Turin

Episode Date: July 6, 2025

The Shroud of Turin is a length of linen, believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus of Nazareth. Its most famous feature is the blurry imprint...

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Episode Date: June 29, 2025

Arthur Conan Doyle, a doctor, war volunteer, campaigner for justice, politician, and believer in the spirit world, created one of literature’s most fa...

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The Spanish Flu

Episode Date: June 22, 2025

The influenza pandemic of 1918-20 infected about one-third of the world’s population at the time, killing at least 50 million people. Occurring during...

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The Manhattan Project

Episode Date: June 15, 2025

The Manhattan Project was the codename for the US government’s top secret programme to develop the first atomic bomb. At the height of World War Two,...

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The First Emperor of China

Episode Date: June 8, 2025

In the third century BC, China was a land fractured by war - a patchwork of rival kingdoms struggling for dominance. Out of this chaos rose a single,...

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Anne Frank

Episode Date: June 1, 2025

Anne Frank is one of the world’s most famous writers, yet she didn’t live long enough to see her work published. At the age of thirteen, Anne was a no...