Season 2 (2011)

The Birth of Christ
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June 6, 2011

In fact only two of the four accounts of the life of Christ in the New Testament, the Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of Matthew, te...Read more

Hitler
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June 6, 2011

This programme analyzes the very latest neurological research into Shell Shock and trauma, it retraces Hitler’s time as a frontlin...Read more

Marco Polo
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June 7, 2011

We reveal that despite the book suggesting he spent 20 years in the court of the Chinese emperor, there is no mention of Marco in ...Read more

Alexander the Great
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June 7, 2011

After his death, his body became one of the most sacred objects in history. Pilgrims, from the common man to the most powerful emp...Read more

Taj Mahal
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June 8, 2011

Throughout the seventeenth Century several European travelers visit the Taj Mahal. Many of these explorers later publish lengthy v...Read more

Isaac Newton
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June 8, 2011

Newton was convinced that he alone had been given a gift to unravel the mysteries of the Universe, whether through science, religi...Read more

Saladin
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June 9, 2011

Through the accounts and diaries of Saladin’s closest advisers, the mysteries of the period are uncovered. Saladin’s fear at the i...Read more

Captain Kidd
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June 9, 2011

His conviction may not be unjust but it is perhaps unfair and certainly unlucky. Kidd’s actions at sea clearly made the full use o...Read more

Pope Joan
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January 10, 2011

In Rome today is the street known as Vicus Papissa, ‘the street of the woman pope’. In that avenue is an alcove in which it is sai...Read more

Sitting Bull
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January 10, 2011

In 1890 newspaper headlines read “Custer’s murderer is dead”. The papers tell of the killing of the man who stood in the way of ci...Read more

The Virgin Queen
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June 13, 2011

Did Dudley and Elizabeth conspire to murder his wife so that they could be together? By piecing together the staircase in questio...Read more

Zorro
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June 13, 2011

Decades earlier, a popular writer in Mexico, Riva Palacio, was writing stories with a character called El Zorro, and a character c...Read more

Lawrence of Arabia
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June 14, 2011

We reveal an ambitious archaeological project in Southern Jordan, which is providing startling new evidence. The Great Arab Revolt...Read more