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319. Heist of St Nicolas: The Medieval Mafia Who Stole Santa (Part 2)
Dec 25, 2025Who were the Italian sailors who stole the bones of St Nicolas from his church in Turkey in 1087? How was the mythology of St Nicolas combined with Germanic pagan stories of Odin riding a white horse ...
318. Heist of St Nicolas: Raiding Santa's Tomb (Part 1)
Dec 23, 2025The original Santa Claus, Saint Nicolas, was a real bishop from Myra in modern-day Turkey, whose tomb there was popular with pilgrims, but 700 years after his death, a group of sailors decided to stea...
317. Churchill's Photographer: From Escaping Genocide to MLK
Dec 18, 2025Who was Karsh and how did he become one of the most famous portrait photographers of the 20th century? How did Karsh escape from the Armenian Genocide as a child? What was the story behind some of the...
316. Hitler's Photographer: Nazi Secrets, Eva Braun, & Escaping Justice
Dec 16, 2025Who was Heinrich Hoffman and how did he use his photography to promote Adolf Hitler and Nazism? When did Hoffman introduce Hitler to Eva Braun? What lies did he tell a Jewish journalist who interviewe...
315. Controversy, Colonialism, & V.S. Naipaul
Dec 11, 2025Who was V.S. Naipaul and why was he so controversial? How did Naipaul alter the way in which writers and readers saw the world, and in particular how they saw Trinidad? Why did he make an enemy of Sal...
314. Rudyard Kipling: Villain or Visionary? (Part 3)
Dec 09, 2025Should we still read Kipling today? What family tragedy did Kipling face in the later half of his life? How did he fan the flames of jingoism during and after the First World War? William is reunited...
313. Rudyard Kipling: Escaping India & Writing The Jungle Book (Part 2)
Dec 04, 2025What inspired Kipling to write his two most famous works: The Jungle Book and Kim? Why did Kipling hate London and swiftly move to the US? How did Kipling develop such astute observational writing abo...
312. Rudyard Kipling: Son of Empire (Part 1)
Dec 02, 2025Rudyard Kipling was one of the most evocative writers of India, yet he was a jingoist and an imperialist until his dying day. So how do we grapple with this conundrum, why was Kipling such a man of c...
311. Cricket In India: Beating The Brits At Their Own Game (Part 2)
Nov 27, 2025How did Britain’s imperial game become so popular in India? Why were India’s princes the ‘nepo babies’ of cricket? How does the legacy of Partition continue to affect matches in India and Pakistan tod...
310. The Origin of The Ashes & The Killer Cricket Scandal (Part 1)
Nov 25, 2025How is the history of cricket completely intertwined with the history of the British Empire? What was the Bodyline Controversy of the 1930s and how did it nearly kill a player? Who was Don Bradman and...