A peasant with no title, no wealth, and no education ended up whispering advice into the ears of Russia's royal family.

In this episode of Voices Through History, Anlie Hatting interviews Grigori Rasputin - the man history remembers as the Mad Monk, the Black Monk, the Holy Devil. To his followers, a miracle worker sent by God. To his enemies, a fraud, a manipulator, and a threat to the Russian Empire itself.

He claimed he could save a dying heir to the throne when Russia's greatest doctors couldn't. He became the Empress's closest confidant, and the most hated man in the country - sometimes in the very same breath.

Was he a healer? A predator? A prophet who saw his own death coming? Rasputin answers for all of it — the rumours, the palace, and the empire that collapsed within months of his murder.

The Holy Devil.

The greatest mind of the Renaissance never sat in a classroom.

In this episode of Voices Through History, Anlie Hatting interviews Leonardo da Vinci — painter, anatomist, inventor, engineer, and the epitome of a Renaissance man. Illegitimate and self-taught, denied both formal schooling and his father's profession, Leonardo turned freedom into obsession — filling notebooks with mirror-written observations on flight, water, anatomy, and light.

To paint the human body truly, he needed to understand what lay beneath it — so he obtained bodies for dissection through means that were not always legal.

He designed weapons for warlords, painted a fresco that should have crumbled centuries ago, and carried one small portrait with him for the rest of his life — long after it was ever supposed to leave his hands.

Anatomy of a genius.

The most feared pirate in history — and he barely needed to fight.

In this episode of Voices Through History, Anlie interviews Edward Teach — the man the world knew as Blackbeard. Smoking fuses tucked into his beard. Wild eyes. A name built to travel faster than his ship ever could. Most crews surrendered the moment they saw his flag, long before a blade was ever drawn.

He built the most terrifying reputation on the high seas — not with violence, but with fear itself.

So what was the real weapon? Anlie presses him on the myth, the man, and how it all came to an end.

She was seventeen when she walked into a French court and told a king that God had sent her to save his kingdom. She was nineteen when they burned her for it — officially, not for heresy or witchcraft, but for the crime of wearing men's clothing.

In this episode, Anlie Hatting sits across from Joan herself, giving Joan room to explain a life most people only know as a statue or a saint's day.

Was it faith, or desperation? Voices from God, or a girl who needed one to believe in?

What emerges isn't the marble martyr from the history books. It's a teenage girl — frightened, certain, and utterly unshakeable, all at once — trying to explain the impossible thing she did, to someone who's finally willing to listen properly.

History has never decided if she was mad, or chosen. This is her chance to decide for you.

🎙️ The past is about to speak for itself.

Eight legends. Kings, queens, rebels, and outcasts — pressed and challenged until the myth falls away and the person underneath finally gets to talk.

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Cleopatra: The Last of the Pharaohs

She was one of the most powerful women of the ancient world. A queen, a strategist, a mother, a lover — and the final ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt.

But history has often reduced Cleopatra to a story of seduction, romance and tragedy.

In this episode of Voices Through History, Cleopatra gets to tell her own story.

From her struggle to hold on to Egypt, to her alliances with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, and her final confrontation with Octavian, we step beyond the legend to meet the woman behind the myth.

And in the end, when Augustus wanted to parade her through Rome as a trophy, Cleopatra made one final choice....

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