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443. Lord Byron: Death of a Vampire (Part 4)

Rumours surrounding Lord Byron’s scandalous divorce rippled throughout the world. Finally, he had no choice but to abandon England in…

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442. Lord Byron: Dangerous Liaisons (Part 3)

Good God I am surely in hell! Upon Lord Byron’s return to England and the publication of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, he…

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441. Lord Byron: Scandal, Sex and Celebrity (Part 2)

By 1809, Lord Byron found himself untethered and debt-ridden. Disenchanted with politics, frustrated by his literary career and haunted by…

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440. Lord Byron: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know (Part 1)

Few lives from history can have contained as many strange and exciting strands as that of Lord Byron’s, whose story…

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439. Disco: Sex and Race in Seventies America

Music for sex, dancing, and watching the straight world go by… The explosion of Disco provides an extraordinary window into…

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438. The Moonwalkers, with Tom Hanks

“We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the…

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437. Luther: A World Torn Apart (Part 5)

“I think there is not a devil left in hell, they have all gone into the peasants… smite, stab and…

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436. Luther: Showdown with the Emperor (Part 4)

“I cannot and will not recant anything for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe.…Here I stand, I…

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435. Luther: The Battle Against Satan (Part 3)

Three years on from Martin Luther’s publication of the Ninety-Five Theses – a shocking attack on the corruption of the…

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434. Luther: The Revolution Begins (Part 2)

Martin Luther is one of the few people to have genuinely changed the world, igniting a religious revolution that tore…

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433. Luther: The Man Who Changed the World (Part 1)

The Reformation, launched in 1517, stands as one of the most convulsive and transformative events of all time, shattering Christendom…

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432. Titanic: The Survivors (Part 6)

“Then it is I drown again, with all those dim lost faces I never understood… Include me in your lamentations.”…

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431. Titanic: Nightmare at Midnight (Part 5)

“A story of horror unparalleled in the annals of the Sea.” On the 14th of April 1912, Titanic, a floating…

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430. Titanic: The Iceberg Strikes (Part 4)

It is Sunday the 14th of April 1912, and the passengers of the Titanic, from the tycoons in first class…

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429. Titanic: Countdown to Disaster (Part 3)

The drama and tragedy of Titanic’s sinking has spawned all manner of myths about the passengers who left Southampton on…

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428. Titanic: Kings of the World (Part 2)

The Titanic was a product of the furious competition of the late Gilded Age, and no expenses were spared to…

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427. Titanic: The Tragedy Begins (Part 1)

“There is no danger that Titanic will sink. The boat is unsinkable and nothing but inconvenience will be suffered by…

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426. History’s Greatest Monkeys

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe…