Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 39 days 7 hours 8 minutes
In August 1521 after a last stand on the steps of their temple buildings, the Aztec defenders of Tenochtitlan surrendered to the Spanish forces of Hernán Cortés & his Mesoamerican allies. Matthew Restall talks to Dan about the fall of the Aztecs.
There were many attempts to escape over & under the Berlin Wall but Tunnel 29 was highly unusual for tunnelling into East Berlin rather than out to the West. Helena Merriman joins Dan to tell the tale of this incredible escape.
What does the price of wheat & global food supplies have to do with one of the greatest disasters in the history of warfare? Author Nicholas A Lambert talks us through the lead-up to the catastrophic Gallipoli campaign in 1915.
On 11 August 991 one of the most important anglo-Viking battles took place near Maldon. Professor Levi Roach joins Dan to examine the battle, its consequences & the epic poem it inspired.
The role of the royal mistress may, on the face of it but in reality, there was a lot more to being a royal mistress than it might seem. Dr Linda Kiernan Knowles helps Dan explore the influence & intrigue surrounding the royal mistresses of Europe.
The second atomic strike on the city of Nagasaki is less well known than the one a few days earlier on Hiroshima, but was it more influential in forcing the Japanese to surrender? To find out who exactly ordered it why Dan talked to Frederik Logevall.
A Soviet double agent at the top of his game, a deadly game of cat and mouse with the KGB & a daring escape from the very heart of Moscow. In this archive episode, Dan talks to author Ben Macintyre about the life of Oleg Gordievsky.
Approximately 1.35 billion people use it, either as a first or second language, so English & the way that we speak it has a daily impact on huge numbers of people. But how did the English language develop?
In the last 30 years, the internet has utterly changed the world in which we live. Dan is joined by Dame Wendy Hall to explore the history of the world wide web & the vitally important geopolitical issues that surround it.
The discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at former Canadian residential schools has led to a crisis of identity in Canada as it tries to come to terms with the trauma of the past. Dan is joined by Tracey Bear and Jim Miller to explore the issue.