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Season 2

(2011)

Cast

Struan Rodger as Himself / Narrator
Struan Rodger

as Himself / Narrator

Episodes

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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 …

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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…

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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 o…

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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 p…

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June 8, 2011

Throughout the seventeenth Century several European travelers visit the Taj Mahal. Many of these explorers later publis…

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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 scie…

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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 fe…

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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…

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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 whic…

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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 th…

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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…

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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 …

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June 14, 2011

We reveal an ambitious archaeological project in Southern Jordan, which is providing startling new evidence. The Great …