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• 515. Nelson: Attack the French! (Part 2)

  It is 1793 and France has declared war on Britain, meaning that the British navy must serve as both sword and shield to Europe. Horatio Nelson is at this time a slim and sickly 34 year old captain who nevertheless burns with the zeal to...

  21 nov 2024 2386 sec.

• 514. Nelson: Hero of the Seas (Part 1)

  It’s 1758 and Britain’s greatest naval commander has just been born. The young Horatio Nelson has inherited his father’s love of god and his mother’s hatred of the French. At age 12, he leaves Norfolk for a life on the high seas. As a...

  18 nov 2024 4109 sec.

• 513. America in '68: Nixon's Great Comeback (Part 6)

  “Nixon now! Nixon now! More than ever we need Nixon now!” It's the 5th of November 1968, and Richard M. Nixon is on tenterhooks, alone in his dark hotel room. He watches as the final states are called in the presidential election. Will...

  14 nov 2024 3585 sec.

• 512. America in '68: The Chicago Riots (Part 5)

  The Democratic National Convention is in Chicago, and the incumbent president, Lyndon B. Johnson, has pulled out of the race. Anti-war protestors are flooding the streets of the city, and Johnson continues to press on with the war in...

  11 nov 2024 4295 sec.

• 511. America in '68: George Wallace, The First Donald Trump (Part 4)

  “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!” George Wallace, Governor of Alabama, was one of the most successful third-party presidential candidates in American history. In 1968, he ran a populist campaign pitching...

  7 nov 2024 4129 sec.

• 510. America in '68: The Killing of Robert Kennedy (Part 3)

  “What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another” As...

  4 nov 2024 4006 sec.

• 509. America in '68: The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (Part 2)

  The peaceful figurehead of the Civil Rights movement in the early 1960s, Dr Martin Luther King had inspired hundreds of thousands to demand equal rights for African Americans. But by 1968, the once uniting leader seemed to be losing...

  31 okt 2024 3888 sec.

• 508. America in '68: Nightmare in Vietnam (Part 1)

  "Tonight I want to speak to you of peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.” On the night of Sunday, 31st of March 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson, after announcing an end to the bombing of North Vietnam, stunned the world by revealing he...

  28 okt 2024 4529 sec.

• 507. The French Revolution: The Marseillaise, Song of War (Part 5)

  “Let us march! Let us march! May impure blood water our fields!” Written after the declaration of war against Austria in 1792, “La Marseillaise” was born in the provinces of France, away from the Parisian metropole, and immediately...

  24 okt 2024 2881 sec.

• 506. The French Revolution: Massacre at the Palace (Part 4)

  The war between revolutionary France and the allied powers of Prussia and Austria has reached fever pitch, and in early August 1792, the latter party threaten a terrible vengeance on Paris should harm be done to the French royal family....

  23 okt 2024 3616 sec.

• 505. The French Revolution: The Shadow of the Guillotine (Part 3)

  During the "Ancien Regime", royal executioners held an unholy status, and would strike up fear in the crowds as they walked the streets of Paris. But with the Revolution, the role of executioners in society was reformed, and whilst they...

  20 okt 2024 3464 sec.

• 504. The French Revolution: War to the Death (Part 2)

  “You have shaken off the yoke of your despots, but surely this was not to bend the knee before a foreign tyrant…” It’s January 1792, and one of the largest factions in revolutionary France, the Gironde, is calling for war against...

  16 okt 2024 3782 sec.