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Where did the idea that Victorians were all repressed weirdos come from? Is it true? Did they cover their piano legs for modesty? What's going on?

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Who were the Illuminati? Did they cause revolutions all over the world, or were they just a bunch of nerds? Are philosophers to blame for everything? And did the French make books out of the skins of those they guillotined?

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What's the history of Petra? Why was it considered lost for so long? Why aren't Bedouin people allowed to live there any more, and other things colonialism has ruined.

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This week we explore the weird and wonderful world of alchemy, from ancient China to Isaac Newton.

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People who's lives turned out to involve things no one could have predicted.

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This episode we talk political philosophy, chaos, revolutions and war crimes and the messy path to human rights theory.

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Did a real human man called Jesus actually live and was he really crucified or did the church make the whole thing up?

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Was the past stinky? Were medieval peasants covered in poo like Monty Python? Did people really piss out of windows like in Blackadder? Were the streets of medieval London rivers of animal guts and dung? Or were the people of the past just like us?

Let's find out!

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We debate Oliver Cromwell and whether, massacres and puritanism aside, he was really such a bad guy.

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Was there really an all female tribe of warrior women in the ancient world? Did they cut off one boob? Why would they do that? Emma and Janina discuss the evidence.

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