Join domestic historian Ruth Goodman as she guides you through the surprising, often epic stories behind everyday objects in your home. Double-glazed windows? We owe those to a French king’s odd fascination with oranges. The minty fresh toothpaste by your sink? Well, if you lived in Ancient Greece, you’d be washing your teeth with ground-up bones and oyster shells.
True stories of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary survival situations. Stranded in the desert. Lost in the jungle. Marooned in the mountains. Shipwrecked on the high seas. You'll hear from individuals who had everything against them. But even then, they refused to give in…
If you arrived at a crime scene, would you have what it takes to crack the case wide open?
Would you spot the vital clue that everyone else has missed? Could you unravel the suspect’s perfect alibi? And could you confront a murderer?
This is a deep dive into the life of the German führer. The Hitler story all the way from cradle to grave.
As featured on Real Dictators. Brought to you by award-winning podcasters, Noiser. Narrated by Paul McGann with contributions from expert historians.
From humble beginnings he will become an emperor - a virtual god. But then, almost inevitably, he will fall...
This is the story of Napoleon Bonaparte. As featured on Real Dictators.
From Billy the Kid to the Kray twins. The Peaky Blinders to Anne Bonny. Real Outlaws is the show that follows in the footsteps of history’s most notorious criminals. Be they charismatic antiheroes or bloodthirsty villains, their names and exploits live on in the popular imagination. But what are the true stories behind the myths? We'll talk to leading experts and travel back in time, to when rogues and bandits followed a code all their own. This is Real Outlaws.
Every weekday, Lindsay Graham (American Scandal, American History Tellers) takes you back in time to explore a momentous moment that happened ‘on this day’ in history. Whether it’s to remember the tragedy of December 7th, 1941, the day “that will live in infamy,” or to celebrate that 20th day in July, 1969, when mankind reached the moon, History Daily is there to tell you the true stories of the people and events that shaped our world—one day at a time.
Amazing civilisations like the Mayans and the Aztecs. Remarkable peoples, like the Vikings and the Ancient Egyptians. Fearsome warriors like the Samurai and the Spartans. Fascinating figures steeped in mystery, like the Ninjas and the Knights Templar. Then there are events that changed everything: the California Gold Rush, Watergate, the Mount Vesuvius Eruption, the Black Death.
New episodes every Monday.
In Real Narcos, we go undercover with the men and women trying to bring down these infamous criminal masterminds. From the King of Cocaine, Pablo Escobar, to the Godmother of the drugs trade, Griselda Blanco, and the most powerful drug trafficker on the planet, El Chapo. Follow the real special agents as they kick down doors and dismantle crime syndicates, bringing the world’s most wanted narco-terrorists to justice.
Real Dictators is the new podcast series hosted by Paul McGann (Dr Who, Luther, Withnail and I) that explores the hidden lives of history’s tyrants. We encounter the American-trained doctor, “Papa Doc” Duvalier, who used modern medicine to convince the people of Haiti that he was a Voodoo god. There’s Kim Jong-il, who developed nuclear warheads alongside blockbuster movies. There’s Mao Zedong – the peasant’s son who transformed China, presiding over the catastrophic Great Chinese Famine and the bloody Cultural Revolution. And Joseph Stalin, the man who turned Russia into a superpower and set the stage for the Cold War, while upending and destroying the lives and livelihoods of millions of his own people.
Real Dictators fuses immersive, dramatic storytelling with interviews with world-renowned experts. The voices of historians sit alongside an array of regime insiders such as Jang Jin-sung – a former psychological warfare officer for Kim Jong-il – and François Benoit, a survivor of ‘Papa Doc’ Duvalier’s reign of terror.
