Witness history's most incredible moments and remarkable people.
Sounds,·250 episodes
In 1940, 3,000 airmen risked their lives to defend British shores from the Nazis.
27 Mar 2026,·43 mins,·
C.S. Lewis is perhaps best known for his Chronicles of Narnia series.
23 Mar 2026,·49 mins,·
The Great Depression was the worst peacetime economic shock of the twentieth century.
20 Mar 2026,·48 mins
Sixty years after his death, Hemingway remains a symbol of modernism and masculinity.
16 Mar 2026,·52 mins,·
Shakespeare’s villain, Richard III, is immortalised as a monster, but is that fair?
13 Mar 2026,·49 mins,·
How did the latter half of the Middle Ages lay the foundation for our modern world?
09 Mar 2026,·52 mins,·
Hadrian’s Wall was built to mark the extent of the Roman Empire in Britain.
06 Mar 2026,·45 mins,·
The period known as the Middle Ages was defined by more than knights and warfare.
02 Mar 2026,·53 mins,·
Wilbur and Orville Wright were determined to turn the dream of flight into reality.
27 Feb 2026,·50 mins
The Silk Roads were a living network of paths, mountain passes, and caravan trails.
23 Feb 2026,·51 mins
After such success, Athens’ decline is a lesson in great civilisations' rise and fall.
20 Feb 2026,·51 mins,·
In April 1982, decades of tension between Argentina and England exploded into war.
16 Feb 2026,·51 mins,·
During World War 2, dozens of British-trained women were deployed as spies and saboteurs.
13 Feb 2026,·47 mins,·
In 1994, violence engulfed Rwanda. But what precipitated this senseless mass killing?
09 Feb 2026,·49 mins,·
The Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries was a time of rediscovery.
06 Feb 2026,·47 mins,·
Why, even after his death, does Rasputin's shadow hang over the fall of Imperial Russia?
02 Feb 2026,·51 mins,·
Thomas Edison is one of history’s greatest inventors.
30 Jan 2026,·56 mins,·
The Māori have had a presence in New Zealand for at least 800 years.
26 Jan 2026,·50 mins,·
Built by kings, Angkor had a footprint bigger than present-day New York.
23 Jan 2026,·48 mins
Tesla arrived in America with just four cents in his pocket and a head full of inventions
19 Jan 2026,·52 mins,·
In the 2nd half of the 20th century, the USSR became one of the world’s two superpowers.
16 Jan 2026,·54 mins,·
How did David Bowie transform himself into a superstar and change pop music forever?
12 Jan 2026,·48 mins,·
How did one of the most ambitious political experiments in human history come about?
09 Jan 2026,·53 mins,·
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson purchased 820,000 square miles of land from Napoleon.
05 Jan 2026,·48 mins
Alexander the Great is as famed for his hedonistic lifestyle as his military genius.
29 Dec 2025,·45 mins,·
From September 1940, Germany’s Luftwaffe subjected Britain to an intense bombing campaign
22 Dec 2025,·45 mins,·
Think of the Wild West, and you’ll imagine cowboys, shootouts, bank robberies and saloons
19 Dec 2025,·47 mins,·
Over the course of a thousand years, Venice helped to reshape European culture.
15 Dec 2025,·53 mins,·
For over 600 years, castles played a leading role in the story of Britain.
12 Dec 2025,·47 mins,·
The Nuremberg Trial dealt with the worst crimes of the Nazi regime.
08 Dec 2025,·50 mins,·
