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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...
· 39 min 46 sec
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...
· 1 hr 8 min 29 sec
“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...
· 59 min 45 sec
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 cont...
· 1 hr 11 min 35 sec
“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 r...
· 1 hr 8 min 49 sec
“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 com...
· 1 hr 6 min 46 sec
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 un...
· 1 hr 4 min 48 sec
"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...
· 1 hr 15 min 29 sec
“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 Paris...
· 48 min 1 sec
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...
· 1 hr 16 sec
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 s...
· 57 min 44 sec
“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...
· 1 hr 3 min 2 sec
Welcome to Season 2 of The French Revolution!Revolutionary fervour threatens to engulf the streets of Paris, as demonstrators have gathered on the Champ de Mars to sign a petition demanding the remova...
· 1 hr 5 min 5 sec
In the aftermath of Boudicca’s uprising, the Romans felt they could not withdraw from the British Isles. They sent their most competent fighters and leaders to suppress the indigenous Britons in the s...
· 1 hr 1 min 47 sec
“Two cities were sacked, eighty thousand of the Romans and of their allies perished, and the island was lost to Rome. Moreover, all this ruin was brought upon by a woman...”Few figures have statues de...
· 56 min 23 sec
Viewed as an idiot by those around him, Claudius felt the need to prove himself. In the century since Caesar had invaded Britain, the mythology surrounding the island had taken hold in Roman imaginati...
· 58 min 52 sec
Julius Caesar saw the Britons as brutal savages. Yet the Romans romanticised their lack of civilisation, deeming them as untainted by Mediterranean luxury. In 55 BC, after sending scouts along the Ken...
· 50 min 48 sec
After lying in state in an open casket, Evita’s corpse is taken down to a secret laboratory in the basement. And as the Argentinian Victor Frankenstein, Dr Ara, busily embalms her body, her ghost cont...
· 57 min 22 sec
The workaholic mother of a nation, Evita’s health deteriorates and she faints at a public event. A self-proclaimed martyr, she seems to be willing to die for Perón and Perónism, and her supporters see...
· 47 min 56 sec