The Kray Twins
Ronnie and Reggie Kray were a vicious pair of gangsters who somehow cultivated an air of charm and 60s cool. They were criminals who attract...
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Short History Of... is the new show from award-winning podcasters, Noiser. Each week, we'll transport you back in time to witness history's most incredible moments and remarkable people. New...
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Introducing: Founding Fathers: An American Dream - Episode 1
This is a preview of a brand-new show from the Noiser Podcast Network. Hosted by Clarke Peters (The Wire, The Boroughs), 'Founding Fathers:...
Punk
By the mid-1970s, many young British people felt locked out of life. The country was struggling, the future uncertain, and for a generation...
Jacques Cousteau
Co-inventor of the Aqua-Lung, Captain Jacques Cousteau opened the ocean to the public like no one before. An explorer, filmmaker and environ...
Charlemagne
Charlemagne remains one of the towering figures of European history. He created for himself a vast territory that covered most of modern-day...
The Golden Age of Railways
In the early nineteenth century, engineers discovered that steam power and iron rails could be combined to move people and goods faster than...
The Haitian Revolution
The first and only successful uprising of enslaved people to establish a nation-state, the Haitian Revolution began in the French colony of...
The Real James Bond
In the early years of the twentieth century, long before James Bond stepped onto the page, one man was at work as a new kind of spy. He cros...
The Spanish Civil War
The story of Franco’s rise to power and the painful, repressive regime he oversaw is fundamentally interlinked with that of the Spanish Civi...
Sir Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake is most famous for his role in defeating the Armada of 1588 and saving England from a Spanish invasion. By that point in h...
Bob Dylan
The American singer-songwriter and musician Bob Dylan is one of the most important recording artists on the planet. A cultural icon, his wor...
The American Civil War (Part Two of Two)
In the decades since the United States declared their independence from Britain, the question of slavery had become increasingly divisive. A...
The American Civil War (Part One of Two)
The American Civil War started with a single, explosive question: could a nation built on slavery survive without it? Several Southern state...
The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
In 1914, Europe was dominated by four great empires — the British, the French, the Russian, and the vast, uneasy realm of Austria-Hungary, s...
C.S. Lewis
One of the most famous writers of the 20th century, C. S. Lewis was a scholar of medieval literature, an influential Christian thinker and a...
Introducing: Real Vikings - Episode 1
This is a preview of a brand-new show from the Noiser podcast network. Hosted by Iain Glen (Game of Thrones, Silo), Real Vikings takes you o...
Ernest Hemingway
At the dawn of the twentieth century, a writer emerged who learned his craft not in a classroom, but in battlefields, bullrings, and bars. T...
The European Middle Ages (Part 2 of 2)
Although the Middle Ages were an undeniably turbulent period in the history of Europe, characterised in part by endemic violence, hardship a...
The European Middle Ages (Part 1 of 2)
The period known as the Middle Ages was defined by more than knights and warfare. It began centuries before the First Crusade was called, in...
The Silk Roads
From the deserts of Central Asia to the gates of ancient China, from the bazaars of Persia to the harbours of the Mediterranean, the Silk Ro...