Best David Pompeii Podcasts (2024)

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Occult Germany with Christopher McIntosh 1:27:54

23d ago1:27:54

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Ken and Marck scale the Externsteine to discover the secret chapel, wonder at alchemical delights, and search for hidden Rosicrucian adepts of Germany. Our Reiseführer this week is returning guest, author, and adept of the highest standing Christopher McIntosh. This week: Is Germany the true cradle of the Western Esoteric Tradition, Is the Golden D…

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The Mauve Zone – Transmission #005 Satanic Panic 2.0, Spiritualism, and Kenneth Grant 1:03:47

1M ago1:03:47

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***Begin transmission Joseph Matheny, David B Metcalfe, and Ken Eakins send you transmissions from the Mauve Zone. Are the Royal family from Dimension B? How can we disrupt The Satanic Panic 2.0?, Did Conspiracy Theorists popularise Kenneth Grant? Jiddu Krishnamurti the coolest of gurus, Reality is What You Can Get Away With book release, Ye Olde N…

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Possession at the Dionysian Cult of Pompeii with Peter Mark Adams 1:30:49

1M ago1:30:49

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This week we dig through the volcanic ruins of Pompeii and uncover the activities of the Dionysian mystery schools. Our initiatic guide through the villa of mysteries is wonderful Peter Mark Adams author of ‘Mystai: Dancing out the Mysteries of Dionysos’. This week: What does initiation into the mystery schools look like, Just who is Dionysos, The …

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The Magick of Astral Geography with Andy Sharp 1:49:57

3M ago1:49:57

1:49:57

Ken and Marck explore the mysterious and esoteric kingdoms of Earth this week like tourists of the occulture. Our astral travel guide is returning guest Andy Sharp author of ‘Astral Geographic: The Watkins Guide to the Occult World’. This week: The Lasting Legend of the Hellfire Club, Mysterious Monuments and towers, Aleister Crowley’s desert adven…

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The Rise of the Traditionalists with Mark Sedgwick 1:27:30

3M ago1:27:30

1:27:30

Ken explores the complex topic of Traditionalism, it’s esoteric roots, and why it’s having such an impact on Right-Wing politics. Our Illuminator this week is the excellent Professor Mark Sedgwick, author of ‘Traditionalism: The Radical Project for Restoring Sacred Order’. This week: Rene Guenon despises modernity, Julius Evola and the Nazis, Steve…

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Kozyrev Mirrors, Cosmists, and The Gateway Experience with David Metcalfe 1:51:10

3M ago1:51:10

1:51:10

Ken travels across the Iron Curtain to collect valuable data concerning paranormal and occult goings on in the Soviet Union. Our astral projector this week is academic and Mauve Zone co-host David B Metcalfe. This week: What are Russian Cosmists, Who the hell is Kozyrev and why does he like mirrors so much, The Gateway Experience, and much more. Ma…

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Penny Royal and Mystical Geography with Nathan Paul Isaac 1:34:00

5M ago1:34:00

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Journey with us into the dark and mystical caves and landscape of Kentucky to uncover strange phenomena and hidden secrets. Our local trail guide this week is the wonderful Nathan Isaac of the Penny Royal podcast. This week: Feedback loops and the mystery of place, How to contact prater-human intelligences, James Shelby Downard in Kentucky, The Cin…

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The Mauve Zone – Transmission #003 Aleister Crowley: UAP Culture, and Traditionalism 1:29:26

5M ago1:29:26

1:29:26

***Begin transmissionJoseph Matheny, David B Metcalfe, and Ken Eakins send you transmissions from the Mauve Zone. Aleister Crowley the misunderstood, Lockdown conspiracies, The 2012 grift, failed raptures, Getting back to nature maaan, Rene Guenon’s Traditionalism, Tabloid UAPs, Traditionalists v Accelerationists and the CIA Secret office of Global…

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The First Alchemists uncovered with Tobias Churton 1:32:48

5M ago1:32:48

1:32:48

Ken and Mark return to their laboratory to combine base metals to discover the once-murky roots of Alchemy. Keeper of the Sanctum this week is the amazing Tobias Churton author of the new book ‘The First Alchemists: The Spiritual and Practical Origins of the Noble and Holy Art’. Join us as we return to the roots of Alchemy. This week: Zosimos and t…

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The Mythos of The Lovecraft Investigations with Julian Simpson 58:01

6M ago58:01

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This week Ken and Mark receive an Enochian invocation broadcast from an old numbers station, the Old Ones are calling. Our guide into the dream world this week is director and writer of The Lovecraft Investigations, Julian Simpson. This week we discuss: How to modernise the tales of Lovecraft, the genius of Sapphire and Steel, why Numbers Stations …

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Lovecraft and the Mystic Polar Tradition with WH Müller and Mario Garza 1:44:56

6M ago1:44:56

1:44:56

This week we delve into the Eldritch world of HP Lovecraft and try and decode hidden magickal lessons. Mario Garza from Symbolic Studies from joins me to grill ‘Polaria’ author WH Müller on his book ‘Polaria’. This week we discuss: Did Lovecraft encode a secret magickal lesson into each of his stories, what is ‘The Mystic Polar Tradition’, Why was …

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S.C. Gwynne: R101 – The World’s Largest Flying Machine (1930) 1:12:51

6M ago1:12:51

1:12:51

After a short break at TTT, enter the world’s largest flying machine. ‘R101’ was one of the most ambitious creations of the airship era. Plans for it began about a century ago in the 1920s. The vision of engineers and politicians was that the 1930s were to mark the start of a new epoch in air travel. R101 was to lead the way. Huge airships were goi…

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Tasty Cults and Holy Food with Christina Ward 1:36:37

6M ago1:36:37

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This week, Ken and Marck pull up their chairs at the dining table and feast upon the banquet of American cults and their delicious offerings. Our head chef this week is the lovely Christina Ward of the legendary Feral House Publishing. This week: The history of Feral House Publishing and Adam Parfry’s legacy, How foods are influenced by religious m…

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The Real Black Lodge Exposed with Allen Greenfield 2:31:56

6M ago2:31:56

2:31:56

This week Ken swings the doors of the infamous shadowy Black Lodge wide open. Key to the door, and keeper of the map Allen Greenfield is his guide. UAPs, Men in Black, Aleister Crowley, Twin Peaks and the IllumiNet conspiracy revealed! This week: Aleister Crowley’s Moonchild, David Lynch’s Black Lodge, The Three Black Schools, Who Killed Jim Keith …

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The Mauve Zone - Transmission #001 ’UAPs, Cosmic Trolls and Municipal Magick’ 1:51:26

7M ago1:51:26

1:51:26

***Begin transmission Joseph Matheny, David B Metcalfe, and Ken Eakins send you transmissions from the Mauve Zone. This week's data leak includes: UAP in Congress, The new Satanic Panic, Skywatch and the Colin's elite, dominionism, Kenneth Grant, Hellier, Allen Greenfield, Jack Parsons, Svenghoulie, and To the Stars Academy Transmission ends*** Mus…

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The Magick of the Fraternitas Saturni with Frater U∴D∴ (PT 2) 1:36:55

7M ago1:36:55

1:36:55

Ken and Mark return to Saturn’s gaze and press further into the German magickal milieu. Once again Frater U∴D∴ lights his lantern of experience and guides us into the temple. This week: Electrical Magick and the Tepaphone, The Saturnian archetype, The Gnosis of Saturn, Yoga and Dark Light, and much more. Jumping into the Saturnian cohost seat this …

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Secrets of the Fraternitas Saturni with Frater U∴D∴ (Pt 1) 1:43:23

7M ago1:43:23

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This week we orbit the rings of Saturn and explore one of Germany’s most long-lasting and secretive Magickal orders, the Fraternitas Saturni. Our Magistar Gnosticus this week is legendary occultist Frater U∴D∴, a longtime member of the F.S., and well-known author of occult texts. This week we discuss: Who are the Fraternitas Saturni, what is the li…

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The Cult of Conspiracy with Nikolas Schreck 1:39:08

7M ago1:39:08

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This week Ken grabs a pizza at Comet Ping Pong with returning guest author and musician Nikolas Schreck to dissect the ever-rising tide of modern conspiracy theory. We look at some of the misconceptions of the more Occult and Left Hand Path theories, as well as discuss Nikolas’ own experiences as a victim of the Satanic Panic. This week: Nikolas’ n…

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Russia and the Occult with Christopher McIntosh 56:40

8M ago56:40

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Ken and Mark pack their bags and head to the Soviet Occult landscape of Hyperbora. Our tour guide into this fantastical realm is author Christopher McIntosh. This week: What is the Occult like in Russia post-Soviet Union, is Hyperborea in Russia, what influence does the occult have on art in a post-war country, and much more. Joining me from atop a…

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Flaming Humanoids and Men in Black with Fred Andersson 1:41:54

9M ago1:41:54

1:41:54

This week we travel to the mysterious forests of Sweden to search out Fiery encounters, Men in Black and strange green entities. Our trailmaster is the wonderful investigator of High Strangeness Fred Andersson. This week we travel to the mysterious forests of Sweden to search out Fiery encounters, Men in Black and strange green entities. Our trailm…

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Homunculi and the Dark Side of the Occult with Juan Ayala 1:29:15

9M ago1:29:15

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This week we wander into the occult laboratories of Alchemists through time, and discover the secrets of the Homunculus. Keeping the little monsters in their glass containers this week is the excellent Juan Ayala of The Juan on Juan Podcast. This week: What the hell is a Homunculus, Why the dark side of the Occult is so appealing, Why Aleister Crow…

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The Ritual Borderlands of Magick with Ulysses Black 1:48:26

9M ago1:48:26

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This week we delve into the psychomanteum, discover our Holy Guardian Angel and invoke ritual itself with the help of sorcerer, performance artist, and colleague Mr. Ulysses Black. This week we discuss: Knowledge and conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, New technologies in Magick and the Occult, Sorcery and much more. Main theme by Simon Smerdo…

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Timeloops and Precognitive dreaming with Eric Wargo 1:28:42

9M ago1:28:42

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This week Ken explores time travel using precognitive dream-working with author Eric Wargo. Eric has authored two books on the subject ‘Timeloops’ and ‘Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self’. Join us as we dive headlong into this exciting discovery. This week we discuss: Precognitive dreaming, Jung and the scarab, how to actually dream precognit…

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Peter Moore: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness 53:23

9M ago53:23

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Join Peter Moore and Sarah Bakewell for a little walking tour of Fleet Street in London. Instead of three scenes, in this episode they stop off at three locations, as Peter tells Sarah about three of the characters who appear in his new book: the printer William Strahan, the writer Samuel Johnson and the politician John Wilkes. Peter Moore is a Sun…

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Dark Magick of the Black Lodge revealed with Allen H. Greenfield 2:01:10

9M ago2:01:10

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This week Ken and Ulysses Black investigate a shadowy lodge that has spread disinformation, death and lies in it’s wake. Our returning guide is the lovely, and lively Allen H. Greenfield to discuss the shadowy Black Lodge. This week: What is the Black Lodge?, What does the Shaver mystery have in connection to it?, Has Allen met any of it’s members …

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[From the archive] Philip Hoare: Albert and the Whale (1520) 48:44

10M ago48:44

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In 1520 the artist Albrecht Dürer was on the run from the Plague and on the look-out for distraction when he heard that a huge whale had been beached on the coast of Zeeland. So he set off to see the astonishing creature for himself. In this beautifully-evoked episode the award-winning writing Philip Hoare takes us back to those consequential days …

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William Cooper and the Rise of Conspiracy Theory with Mark Jacobson 1:38:06

10M ago1:38:06

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Ken and Raymond jump in a time machine back to the 1990s before the world got too weird to discover what the conspiracy climate was like through the eyes of conspiracy theorist William Cooper. Our pale-horse-riding-guide this week is author Mark Jacobson. This week we discuss: The legend of William Cooper, why the hip-hop community loves old Bill, …

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Kenneth Grant and the Tunnels of Set with Michael Staley 1:18:04

10M ago1:18:04

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This week Ken and Marck take a left (hand path?) through the Mauve Zone and into the Tunnels of Set to further explore the work of Kenneth Grant. Our guide through the Qliphoth this week is returning guest Michael Staley. This week we discuss: Is Kenneth Grant ‘Left hand path’, What are the Tunnels of Set, Where is the Mauve Zone, and how do get th…

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[From the archive] Bernard Cornwell: The Battle of Waterloo (1815) 1:01:15

10M ago1:01:15

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It's time to revisit our archives. In this episode one of the world’s great historical novelists takes us back to one of the most dramatic and consequential moments in European history. Bernard Cornwell is our guide to the Battle of Waterloo. Waterloo. That single word is enough to conjure up images of Napoleon with his great bicorn hat and the dar…

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Freemasonry, Alchemy and the Philosopher’s Stone with R.E. Kretz 1:26:16

10M ago1:26:16

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Ken goes on a quest that has driven men to the edge of madness, the search for the Philosopher’s Stone of Alchemy. Turning lead to gold before our very eyes this week is the author of ‘The Alchemical Search for Unified Field’, R.E. Kretz. This week we discuss: The lack of mysticism in modern freemasonry, Ophiuchus and Pythagoras, What exactly is th…

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Dream Initiations with Sarah Janes 1:17:05

10M ago1:17:05

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Returning from their long slumber, Ken and Marck venture into the arms of Morpheus to learn about dream initiation. Our shaman on this mystical quest is the lovely Sarah Janes, author of ‘Initiation into Dream Mysterious’. This week we discuss: What is dream incubation, the importance of star knowledge, old woman rituals, creative inspiration from …

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Lady Hale: The Rights of Women (1925) 56:09

10M ago56:09

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Our guest today is one of the greatest of Britons. Lady Hale was, until her retirement three years ago, the President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom – the most senior judge in the country. Peter sat down with Lady Hale at her London home for a conversation about her life, her love of history and memoir Spider Woman. After this she took …

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[Live] Flora Fraser: Pretty Young Rebel (1746) 36:00

10M ago36:00

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In this special live episode, recorded at the Buckingham Literary Festival last weekend, the award-winning writer Flora Fraser takes us to one of the most remote places in the British Isles to witness the dramatic story of how her namesake Flora Macdonald helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape after his failed attempt to take the throne from George II…

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Mike Jay: Psychonauts (1885) 1:04:09

11M ago1:04:09

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In this episode the cultural historian Mike Jay takes Peter back to the high Victorian Age to see how a pioneering group of scholars and artists experimented with mind altering drugs. Jay labels these characters 'psychonauts'. These were daring, romantic figures like Sigmund Freud who championed cocaine as a stimulant, and William James whose exper…

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David Veevers: How the World Took On the British Empire (1660) 1:01:52

11M ago1:01:52

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In this lively episode of Travels Through Time the historian Dr David Veevers takes us to the heart of the seventeenth century to visit three key locations in which the British Empire was being formed, challenged and resisted. First, we head to the Deccan Plateau of the Indian Subcontinent to witness a dramatic stand off between the Mughal and Mara…

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Leah Redmond Chang: Renaissance Queens and the Price of Power (1559) 1:00:45

11M ago1:00:45

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This week we head to the turbulent world of sixteenth century France to meet three fascinating queens whose lives were inextricably linked – Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary Queen of Scots. They are the subject of our guest today, Leah Redmond Chang's, new book, Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power. 'The ro…

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Andrew Spira: Botticelli, Perugino and Dürer (1500) 1:01:15

11M ago1:01:15

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The Renaissance was stirred into life by many figures of genius. In this episode Peter meets up with the art historian, Andrew Spira, to talk about three of the great masters in one of the most captivating of years. In different ways Botticelli, Perugino and Dürer were finding new stories to tell in their paintings. Spira evaluates all of this for …

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Serhii Plokhy: The Collapse of the Soviet Union (1991) 51:01

11M ago51:01

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For this week's episode Peter headed in to Penguin's offices in London to meet Serhii Plokhy and talk to him about his new book, The Russo-Ukrainian War. They discussed how a culture of secrecy continues to define Russian society as it did before with the Soviets. They looked at the progress of the war and Putin's failed attempt to found a 'Eurasia…

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[From the archives] Craig Brown: Beatlemania (1963) 48:51

11M ago48:51

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It's time to delve into our archive. In this brilliantly descriptive and entertaining episode, the award-winning writer and satirist Craig Brown takes us on a cultural tour of 1963. We discuss the Great Train Robbery, the Beatles meteoric rise to fame and the assassination of JFK. For much, much more about all this and to be the first to see the am…

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Honor Cargill-Martin: The Notorious Empress Messalina (48 AD) 59:02

12M ago59:02

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In this episode of Travels Through Time the classicist Honor Cargill-Martin takes Artemis on a tour of the debauched and dangerous world of Roman politics. We meet Messalina, one of the Rome's most notorious women, and follow her through the events of 48 AD that would lead to her eventual downfall and execution. For over two thousand years Messalin…

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Tom Whipple: The Battle of the Beams (1940) 58:13

12M ago58:13

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Today Tom Whipple, science editor of The Times, takes us back to a critical moment at the beginning of World War Two. Just a month after replacing Neville Chamberlain as prime minister, Winston Churchill learned that the Nazis were using beams to direct their bombers towards targets in Britain’s industrial heartlands. The science behind these beams…

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Simon Winchester: Knowing What We Know (1924) 1:02:12

12M ago1:02:12

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It has been said that the past is another country, but the events we discuss in this episode feel all too familiar. Media interference in elections, Russian influence on Western politics, controversial immigration policy and the technology industry are all as close to the top of the agenda today as there were in 1924. Today Violet is joined on a to…

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Rebecca Struthers: Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots and Watchmaking History (1572) 58:58

1y ago58:58

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England in the mid sixteenth century was filled with drama and novelty. As conspiracies played out and a new queen sought to established herself on the throne, a glamorous new technology was emerging in the fashionable world. In this fascinating episode, Rebecca Struthers, the author of Hands of Time: A Watchmaker’s History of Time, takes us back t…

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Luke Turner: Men at War (1943) 57:43

1y ago57:43

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In today’s beautifully described episode the author and journalist Luke Turner takes us back to 1943 to present us with a refreshingly different view of World War 2. The war, Turner reminds us, was a cultural experience as well as a military contest. One feature of this cultural environment has been largely neglected by generations of scholars. Thi…

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Amy Jeffs: Tales from Medieval England (1327) 48:56

1y ago48:56

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This week we have an extra Friday episode for you. It’s with the multi-talented artist, historian and musician Dr Amy Jeffs. She takes us back to 1327, a year of high political drama when King Edward II of England was deposed by his wife, Isabella, and his teenage son, Edward III was crowned and began his fifty-year reign. Jeffs spent her universit…

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Nicholas Orme: A Year of Great Promise (1480) 53:27

1y ago53:27

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In the last decades of the fifteenth century, life in England was finally starting to settle down after years of upheaval and conflict during the Wars of the Roses which had riven society since the mid 1450s. Waves of Plague had decimated the population, causing widespread distress but providing unexpected opportunities for those who survived. The …

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[From the archives] Jane Rogoyska: The Katyń Massacre (1940) 57:43

1y ago57:43

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This month marks 80 years since the government of Nazi Germany announced the shocking discovery of a series of mass graves in the Katyń Forest in the occupied USSR. Thus began one of the most tangled and disturbing of WW2 stories. Just what had happened? In this episode from our archive, the writer Jane Rogoyska, author of Surviving Katyń, takes us…

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John Darlington: The Port Royal Earthquake (1692) 50:44

1y ago50:44

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Today the archaeologist and executive director of World Monuments Fund, John Darlington, takes us on a dramatic trip back to the 1690s to witness a devastating earthquake in the Caribbean. Scroll down, too, for news of a special discount code. *** After its capture by the English in 1655, Port Royal, Jamaica, became a place of great significance. H…

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Katja Hoyer: Beyond The Wall (1973) 56:02

1y ago56:02

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‘I have so often wondered’, the historian Katja Hoyer says, ‘what I would have made of the state that I was born into had I been born a few years earlier and lived through it in the way that other people did.’ That state was East Germany or the German Democratic Republic (GDR). This was a nation that emerged out of the ashes of World War II and exi…

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Company of Heroes 3: David Milne (1942-4) 1:04:53

1y ago1:04:53

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In this episode we talk to the game designer David Milne about his historical work on the hugely popular real time strategy game Company of Heroes 3. Milne takes us back to the Mediterranean theatre of World War II, from Tobruk in North Africa to Anzio in Italy, as we learn how games developers faithfully evoke the past. Company of Heroes 3 is the …

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