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Short History Of...
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 Wild West
Episode Date: April 16, 2023Think of the Wild West, and you’ll imagine cowboys, shootouts, bank robberies and saloons. But it was also a time of massive resettlement, new technol...
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British Castles
Episode Date: April 9, 2023For over 600 years, castles played a leading role in the story of Britain. From the Norman Conquest to the English Civil War, they are woven into the...
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Muhammad Ali
Episode Date: April 2, 2023From the day he burst onto the scene, Muhammad Ali changed boxing history. But he also influenced the American civil rights movement, the perception o...
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Introducing: Detectives Don’t Sleep - Murder in Paradise (Part 1 of 2)
Episode Date: March 27, 2023From Noiser, comes the brand-new podcast Detectives Don’t Sleep. The show takes you beyond the police tape to shadow the real detectives who worked hi...
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The Dinosaur Rush
Episode Date: March 26, 2023When Edward Cope and OC Marsh began their race to identify and name new species of dinosaur in the 1870s, palaeontology was still a new discipline. Be...
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Frida Kahlo
Episode Date: March 20, 2023Frida Kahlo is as much a modern icon for her personal flair as she is for her paintings. But how did her style develop, and what did she intend it to...
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St Patrick
Episode Date: March 13, 2023Though St Patrick is honoured by millions of revellers worldwide every year, few know more about him than the popular myths concerning shamrocks and s...
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The Trans-Siberian Railway
Episode Date: March 6, 2023The Trans-Siberian railway is the longest train line in the world, spanning 5700 miles, seven time zones, and straddling two continents. Though today’...
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The Bayeux Tapestry
Episode Date: February 27, 2023Since it was created 900 years ago, the Bayeux Tapestry has survived war, revolution and the ravages of time. This fragile piece of linen, almost seve...
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The Real Robinson Crusoe
Episode Date: February 20, 2023Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe is one of the most widely published books in history. This story of a man stranded alone on an island is sai...
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The Mona Lisa
Episode Date: February 13, 2023Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in the world. 500 years old and just 77x53cm in size, it is kept behind bulletproof glass in...
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The Partition of India
Episode Date: February 6, 2023In 1947, the British divided up its former colony of India into two provinces. What followed was confusion, chaos, and an unprecedented wave of sectar...
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D.B. Cooper
Episode Date: January 30, 2023At approximately 8:13 p.m. on November 24th, 1971, a hijacker exited Northwest Airlines flight 305 at an altitude of 10,000 feet, carrying just a case...
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Agatha Christie
Episode Date: January 23, 2023Retaining the title of the “Queen of Crime” to this day, Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time. Across 66 novels, 14 short-story co...
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The Irish Potato Famine
Episode Date: January 16, 2023Between 1845 and 1852, Ireland suffered an appalling famine after the repeated failure of the potato crop, its national staple. But though caused by a...
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Shakespeare
Episode Date: January 1, 2023No single writer has shaped the way we speak and think more than William Shakespeare. Whether we’re being cruel to be kind, wearing our hearts on our...
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The Christmas Truce of 1914 (Repeat)
Episode Date: December 25, 2022It’s Christmas eve, 1914. On the Western Front, a British soldier peers out across No Man’s Land. A sound catches his attention – not artillery fire,...
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Pocahontas
Episode Date: December 19, 2022Pocahontas is probably the best known Native American in history. But the true story of her life has been eclipsed by a fictionalised version, played...