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Empire
Empire
Goalhanger

How do empires rise? Why do they fall? And how have they shaped the world around us today? William Dalrymple and Anita Anand... more

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Episodes

203. Captain Hook, Peter Pan & The Dark Side of Neverland

J.M. Barrie, the fascinating Scottish writer, gave us Peter Pan - the boy who never grows up, and his notorious... more

14 Nov 2024 · 44 minutes
202. Long John Silver: The Truth Behind Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson, a sickly boy with a vivid imagination, grew up along Scotland’s rugged coast, where tales of shipwrecks... more

12 Nov 2024 · 43 minutes
201. The Raj at War

For many years, commemorations of the two World Wars excluded the memorialisation of soldiers from the British Empire. But campaigners... more

07 Nov 2024 · 40 minutes
200. The East India Company’s Global Manhunt

After robbing the fleet in a brutal, barbaric fashion, Henry Avery caused a diplomatic incident of global proportions. The Mughals... more

05 Nov 2024 · 46 minutes
199. Robbing the World’s Wealthiest Dynasty

One of the most notable pirates of his day, Henry Avery would go on to make potentially the most lucrative... more

31 Oct 2024 · 42 minutes
198. The Pirate Trial of the Century

William Kidd, a respectable Scottish privateer during the late 17th century, tasked with hunting down pirates on the orders of... more

29 Oct 2024 · 42 minutes
197. The Pirate Hunter

Alongside legends like Blackbeard and Calico Jack, William Kidd is one of the most famous pirates to have entered the... more

23 Oct 2024 · 43 minutes
196. Blackbeard’s Reign of Terror

“At our first salutation he drank damnation to me and my men who styled cowardly puppies saying he would neither... more

21 Oct 2024 · 42 minutes
195. Blackbeard & the Pirates of the Caribbean

The history of pirates is a thrilling kaleidoscope of adventure, devastation, violence and political intrigue, and never more so than... more

16 Oct 2024 · 42 minutes
194. Empire of Numbers: Fibonacci and the Birth of Modern Money

When King Alfonso VI of León took Toledo from the Arabs in 1085, the history of western christendom changed forever.... more

14 Oct 2024 · 41 minutes
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203. Captain Hook, Peter Pan & The Dark Side of Neverland
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