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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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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...

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Alfred Hitchcock

Episode Date: May 25, 2025

Alfred Hitchcock was one of the most celebrated film directors of all time. In a career that spanned six decades, he produced more than 50 films, incl...

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Gaudi (Bonus Episode)

Episode Date: May 20, 2025

In a long life, spanning the late 19th and early 20th century, Antoni Gaudi created some of history’s best-loved architecture. From his early lamppost...

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The Romanovs

Episode Date: May 18, 2025

Throughout their centuries-long dynasty, the Romanovs oversaw the transformation of Russia from a fragmented medieval state, into a vast empire. Despi...

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The Anglo Saxons

Episode Date: May 11, 2025

The Anglo-Saxon period, also known as the ‘Dark Ages’ stretched from the withdrawal of Roman forces in 410 AD to the conquest of England by William of...

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VE Day

Episode Date: May 4, 2025

Victory in Europe Day brought the curtain down on a horrific conflict that decimated a continent and upended the world. But the price of victory over...

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The Salem Witch Trials

Episode Date: April 27, 2025

For more than two centuries, between the late 1400s and early 1700s, a terror of witches gripped Europe. From Scotland to Spain, thousands of people w...

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The Egyptian Sphinx

Episode Date: April 20, 2025

Measuring 240 feet long from paw to tail, and around the height of a six-story building, the Great Sphinx is one of Egypt’s most spectacular, and myst...

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The Real Greatest Showman

Episode Date: April 13, 2025

PT Barnum may be better known as the loose subject of the movie The Greatest Showman, but his life was so much more than that work of fiction. A maste...