There’s a grand legal drama playing out in England in 1772. Everyone wants to know, will the highest court in the land outlaw slavery? Plus we celebrate the Women’s World Cup with a history of soccer quiz!

75 years ago today, on June 6, 1944, the largest seaborne invasion in history landed Allied troops on the coasts of Normandy. The massive undertaking, now known as D-Day, was a turning point in World War II. We look back at the planning, execution and outcome of Operation Overlord. Plus a special D-Day quiz!

A fur trader in 1660 Quebec discovers a fort burned to the ground just outside the city of Montreal. But were the inhabitants heroes who saved the city from an invading Iroquois army, or just collateral damage in a war between the Iroquois and the Huron tribes? Plus we play a game with historical figures Facebook status updates!

What was the most dangerous moment of World War Two? British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s answer might surprise you. This is the story of the British fleet in the Indian Ocean, how they were saved by a Canadian Prime Minister’s roommate, and why the whole story was later forgotten.

Rome is in crisis. Desperately the Emperor launches a war against an unlikely foe, the Desert Queen Zenobia, described as the most beautiful woman in the realm. Can the Emperor bring her unruly territory to heel with a little help from a long dead philosopher?

In the dead of night someone breaks the genitalia off of over 200 statutes in Athens. 16 years later, one of the world’s greatest philosophers is on trial for his life, the end of a complicated trail of political intrigue and military setbacks in Greece that all trace back to that fateful spree of vandalism.

On the night of March 24th, 1944, 77 men crawl through a long dark tunnel… escaping the clutches of a German prisoner of war camp. This is the true story of “The Great Escape”, the largest prisoner of war breakout of the Second World War.

Could a bunch of swimming soldiers be the key to a critical British assault in Burma? It may sound silly, but Lieutenant Bruce Wright thinks it may just be crazy enough to work.

A special Black History Month episode on how the legislature in Upper Canada (what’s now known as Ontario) came to be the first in the British Empire to ban slavery through legislation because of an abolitionist Lieutenant-Governor, an upstanding black veteran, a crafty Attorney General and a brave woman slave.

Jack Sheppard is the most notorious burglar in London while Jonathan Wild runs the city’s largest bounty hunting operation. The two should be enemies, but is there more going on than meets the eye?