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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 56 days 20 hours 12 minutes
episode 1950: History behind the headlines: the Bengal famine
Hannah Skoda and Rana Mitter are joined by journalist Kavita Puri to discuss her new series on the Bengal famine
episode 1949: Spying in the Troubles: the murky world of double agents in Northern Ireland
Henry Hemming explores how a huge intelligence operation was carried out in Northern Ireland by Britain's secret services during the Troubles
episode 1948: Welsh mythology: everything you wanted to know
Mark Rees answers listener questions on the extraordinary stories and mystical creatures found in Welsh legends and myth
episode 1947: Tying the knot: 500 years of wedded bliss and marital misery
Legal historian Rebecca Probert explores the history of marriage in England and Wales over the past 500 years
episode 1946: Conspiracy Revisited: The JFK assassination – 95 per cent certain?
The killing of President John F Kennedy in Dallas in November 1963 is one of the defining events of the 20th century and the subject of multiple conspiracy theories. In part one of a special bonus episode of our Conspiracy series, Rob Attar rejoins the investigative journalist Gerald Posner to tackle your questions about the assassination and the web of intrigue that surrounds it. The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices...
episode 1945: The British empire's divisive legacy
Sathnam Sanghera considers how we can have a constructive national conversation about Britain’s imperial past
episode 1944: Saladin: life of the week
Jonathan Phillips details the astronomic rise of Saladin – who went head to head with crusading forces and was able to reclaim the holy city of Jerusalem
episode 1943: Back in the USSR: the Soviet Sixties
Robert Hornsby reveals how the 1960s was a defining, yet often overlooked, era in Soviet history
episode 1942: Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: everything you wanted to know
Joanna Story answers listener questions about the Anglo-Saxon kings and kingdoms
episode 1941: Dinosaurs: a Victorian obsession
Michael Taylor reveals how the discovery of dinosaur bones challenged ideas about natural history and religion in Victorian Britain