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Jonathan Clements on the fall of the Ming - (pt 2 of 2) - The Knight of the National Name
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Jonathan Clements on the fall of the Ming (pt 1 of 2) - death by a thousand haircuts
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The Odyssey - No sex, terrible food
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The U-Boat Stink
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Lucy Hughes-Hallett on Gabriele D’Annunzio: Poet, Lover, Monster
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Crimea (part 3): The Nazis, Stalin and the bitter end
July 6, 2026 · 42 minProfessor Donald Rayfield picks up Crimea’s story in spring 1942, when Germany turns south for the Black Sea and oil. Some Tartars can't imagine anyone worse than Stalin. Some can't imagine anyone worse than Hitler. Tragically, they are…
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Crimea (part 2): from the Golden Horde to Catherine the Great
June 15, 2026 · 56 minDonald Rayfield returns for the second of three episodes on Crimea — this time taking the long view, from the Mongol Golden Horde to Catherine the Great's annexation and the early Soviet period. At its height the Crimean Khanate was a…
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POWs of the Crimean War
May 22, 2026 · 47 minThe subject today comes out of the Crimean war (1853-1856). I talked to Professor Donald Rayfield, Emeritus Professor of Russian and Georgian history at Queen Mary University of London, about the war itself and in particular what happened…
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The Return of the Emperor (Justinian II - part 2)
April 27, 2026 · 1 hr 3 minPart 1 of the podcast told the sad story of how some shocking misjudgements on the part of Justinian saw him dragged to the Hippodrome where a man with a pair of pliers cut off his nose, cut out his tongue. But in a misjudgement every bit…
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Mutilated and exiled (the Emperor Justinian II - part 1)
April 20, 2026 · 47 minJustinian II becomes emperor at sixteen. Even allowing for the hostility of our sources the reign is not all plain sailing. I'm joined by Professor David Parnell to work through the first half of one of Byzantium's most extraordinary…
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Buckingham: the most hated man in England
March 31, 2026 · 1 hr 18 minYou don't have to be young and beautiful to get ahead in Stuart England but it really doesn't hurt. The is the story of 'gorgeous George' - that is to say George Villiers (later Duke of Buckingham) who in his early 20's became the…
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YEAR ZERO: Jonathan Clements on the First Emperor of China
March 10, 2026 · 1 hr 20 minJonathan Clements returns to talk about his book on the First Emperor of China and the man who was sent to kill him: facts and fictions in Zhang Yimou’s movie Hero (2002), the evil mirror-universe version of Confucianism, an impossibly…

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