9: Fri 16th Dec: Edward VIII's abdication, Sir Francis Drake, Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector - with Nicole Holliday

Update: 2016-12-16

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This week I'm joined by Arsenal (booooo!) presenter Nicole Holliday as we ask: What should happen to monarchs who give up their throne? Is it ok to be a pirate if you seem like a bit of a legend? And Oliver Cromwell: warty Puritan nutcase or English hero?

#history #podcast #comedy #EdwardVIII #SirFrancisDrake #Cromwell

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In Channel

1: SPECIAL: Louis Horne on Welsh History, feline STIs and Jazz violence

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19: Gandhi assassinated | The adventures of Oliver Cromwell’s head | A miscarriage of justice in 50s England

2017-02-0814:39

18: Hitler dooms his soldiers at Stalingrad | A Tudor rebellion and the feminist legacy of Bloody Mary | The liberation of Auschwitz

2017-01-2715:40

17: Special: Presenter Marcus Bronzy talks the history of tech, the future of AI and self-correcting pants

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15: A horrific Hollywood murder; how Henry Ford changed the world; and a chilling Nazi conference

2017-01-2011:23

14: Special: Filmmaker Matt Bell talks his new documentary, Star Wars and Englishness

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13: How Caesar ended the Roman Republic. Was Joan of Arc actually burned for cross-dressing? And Alfred the Great sees off the Vikings (kind of)

2017-01-1315:15

12: The murder of Thomas Becket; Edwin Hubble changes our perception of the Universe and Charles I embarrasses himself

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11: The Best Bits so far: including the Curse of Tutankhamun, Sir Francis Drake, Perkin Warbeck, an unprovoked attack on Winnie the Pooh and ANGRY GERMANS!

2016-12-3145:49

10: Christmas special: The Mayflower, A Christmas Carol and a seventeenth century serial killer - with Yasmeen Khan

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9: Fri 16th Dec: Edward VIII's abdication, Sir Francis Drake, Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector - with Nicole Holliday

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8: Fri 9th December: Pearl Harbour, the Altamont Festival and Smog - with Neil Reynolds

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7: Fri 2nd December: Tutankhamun's tomb, Rosa Parks and King Cnut - with Joe Clark

2016-12-0430:06

6: 25th Nov: The Nuremberg Trials, Perkin Warbeck and the JFK Assassination - with Simon Harkness

2016-11-2934:44

5: Fri 18th Nov: Captain Scott, Churchill and the Boer War, New Orleans desegregation crisis - with Aaron Roach Bridgeman

2016-11-1836:15

4: The Gunpowder Plot, the fall of Catherine Howard and the Beer Hall Putsch - with Rebecca Rideal

2016-11-1125:39

3: Fri 4th Nov: Luther and the 95 Theses, Henry VIII and the Act of Supremacy, the execution of Sir Walter Raleigh - with Will Turner-Roden

2016-11-0531:15

2: Episode 2: Cuban Missile Crisis, The Meal Tub Plot and the Peace of Westphalia - with Simon Harkness

2016-10-2836:30

1: Episode 1, Friday 21st October 2016: King John, The War of Jenkins Ear, Marie Antoinette and the Nobel Prize - with Simon Harkness

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9: Fri 16th Dec: Edward VIII's abdication, Sir Francis Drake, Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector - with Nicole Holliday

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9: Fri 16th Dec: Edward VIII's abdication, Sir Francis Drake, Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector - with Nicole Holliday