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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 Cold War

Episode Date: October 19, 2025

For decades after the Second World War, the Soviet Union and the United States of America were locked in a conflict of ideology that took the planet t...

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The London Underground

Episode Date: October 12, 2025

The London Underground – often known simply as the Tube – is central to the city’s global identity. A pioneering feat of engineering at the time of it...

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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,...