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An exploration into the legacy and works of Elmore Leonard, one of the finest crime novelists of the past half-century.
Hitler’s fascination with propaganda was born in the trenches of WWI. There he saw it emerge as a potent tool of psychological warfare. One that he would harness to build the Nazi movement over the course of the 1920’s and early 1930’s. Part 1 of 3.
This episode explores Hitler’s approach to propaganda in power. Where persuasion was achieved through propaganda and through terror. All in service of one goal. To create a state under one shared ideology: One People, One Reich, One Fuhrer. Part 2 of 3.
This episode explores the way Hitler used propaganda to justify his warmongering, reframing it as defence of Germany’s people and borders. And the role propaganda played for both Hitler and the Allies to mobilise their countries for war. Part 3 of 3.
When King Edward the Confessor dies without an heir, it triggers a bitter race to succeed him as King of England. Earl Harold is on the spot and takes the crown, but in Normandy, Duke William believes the throne has been promised to him and decides to invade. Meanwhile, in Norway the Viking king Harald Hardrada also fancies himself as King of England, and he too puts together an invasion force. Very soon, England will be under attack. Part 1 of 3.
King Harold of England has to take on two invasion forces. First, his brother Tostig attacks the south coast. He is repelled, but there is more to come. Later in the year, a vast Viking invasion force led by King Harald Hardrada of Norway lands in the north of England. Harold rushes to Stamford Bridge to fight for his kingdom and for his life. Meanwhile, Duke William of Normandy is ready to invade, but storms keep his invasion fleet trapped in port. Part 2 of 3.
When the winds finally change, Duke William leads his vast invasion fleet across the Channel after months of being trapped in a port in northern France. But King Harold is 300 miles away in the north, having defeated the Vikings. He has to rush back south, gather a new army and head to Hastings to take on this new invasion. The two armies meet at battle in Sussex on 14 October 1066, and the outcome changes the shape of England and Europe forever. Part 3 of 3.
Re-examining the leadership of American president Franklin Roosevelt, historian David Reynolds exposes the cover-up of his failing health and explores how that impacted on the war’s endgame and his gruelling negotiations with Stalin and Churchill. Part 1 of 2.
Weaving together the epic of FDR’s leadership in World War II with the tangled stories of the women who sustained him in his last years, Reynolds explores how the President was racing to shape the future before his past caught up with him. Part 2 of 2.
Dinosaur fossils are the new gold with record breaking auction sales every year. Rich and passionate private collectors are driving this new bone rush 2.0. with more and more rare fossils ending up in private hands. The 'rush' is on with fortune-seekers and professional excavators racing to unearth new fossils hoping to find the next Big John (full skeletons auctioned by rich collectors). From Jurassic World to Jurassic Cash, will science and museums be deprived of these dinosaur skeletons which have inspired generations of paleontologists?
