How a suicidal plan to try and overthrow the British Empire in the middle of a world war was always doomed to failure, and yet somehow did the job.

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How a 1970s burglary and the clumsy cover up brought the American Presidency to an all-time low. (Until now).

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How one species of hominid outlived all the others, despite an embarrassing one night stand with a Neanderthal.

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That's enough plague and war - for the last show of the series we talk about the really serious stuff - the history of the Eurovision Song Contest.

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How the cult of the Kim family turned North Korea into a dynastic Communist dictatorship, where public displays of love for the leader are compulsory and laughing at his haircut is not recommended.

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How one Jamaican man living in Peckham in the 1930s set about fighting institutional racism, when only the entire British Empire depended on it.

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Why was Stonehenge built? Who worshiped there and why did they stop? (Answer; No one knows, so this is a very short episode.)

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How tulips from Amsterdam became the first get-rich-quick scheme, until it turned out that the early Dutch capitalists had invented the financial crash.

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How the railways meant that after thousands of years being stuck in the same village, the British could suddenly go anywhere and everywhere - until one day tragedy struck; leaves on the line at Didcot Parkway.

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How all out nuclear war was nearly launched in 1983 and Ronald Reagan said 'Oh well, it's not the end of the world.'

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