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As we approach the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s fateful invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the historian, author and broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby revisits the dramatic, murderous struggle between the two totalitarian regimes.
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1006 - Leonardo da Vinci’s private lifeFri, 16 Apr 2021
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1005 - The bigamy trial that scandalised Georgian EnglandWed, 14 Apr 2021
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1004 - Unravelling the Bayeux Tapestry ep5: What now?Tue, 13 Apr 2021
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1003 - Dan Jones on 1,000 years of British historyMon, 12 Apr 2021
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1002 - The Maya: everything you wanted to knowSun, 11 Apr 2021
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1001 - Women prisoners in 19th-century IrelandSat, 10 Apr 2021
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1000 - Stalin: the real victor of WW2Fri, 09 Apr 2021
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999 - Sending the first man into spaceWed, 07 Apr 2021
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998 - Unravelling the Bayeux Tapestry ep4: What’s missing?Tue, 06 Apr 2021
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997 - The feminist who waged war on smallpoxMon, 05 Apr 2021
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996 - The Great Fire of London: everything you wanted to knowSun, 04 Apr 2021
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995 - Cleopatra: unpicking myth from realitySat, 03 Apr 2021
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994 - Traffickers on trial: the sensational case of Lydia HarveyFri, 02 Apr 2021
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993 - Bog bodies: what can they teach us?Wed, 31 Mar 2021
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992 - Unravelling the Bayeux Tapestry ep3: What story does the Tapestry tell?Tue, 30 Mar 2021
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991 - 500 years of women’s self-portraitsMon, 29 Mar 2021
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990 - The Byzantine empire: everything you wanted to knowSun, 28 Mar 2021
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989 - Ammonite & the real fossil hunter Mary AnningSat, 27 Mar 2021
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988 - Tales of Irish emigrationFri, 26 Mar 2021
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987 - The mystery of the vanishing lighthouse keepersWed, 24 Mar 2021
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986 - Unravelling the Bayeux Tapestry ep2: How was the Tapestry created?Tue, 23 Mar 2021
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985 - Hate mail & mutilated horses: Conan Doyle investigatesMon, 22 Mar 2021
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984 - The Elizabethans: everything you wanted to knowSun, 21 Mar 2021
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983 - What happened to the Franklin Expedition? The real mystery behind The TerrorSat, 20 Mar 2021
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982 - Cellini: the “supreme scoundrel of the Renaissance”Fri, 19 Mar 2021
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981 - How our hunger for land shaped historyWed, 17 Mar 2021
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980 - Unravelling the Bayeux Tapestry Ep1: When, where and why was the Tapestry made?Tue, 16 Mar 2021
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979 - The Clifford’s Tower massacre & medieval anti-SemitismMon, 15 Mar 2021
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978 - The Thirty Years’ War: everything you wanted to knowSun, 14 Mar 2021
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977 - Rebels, hostages and diplomats: royal women of the crusader statesSat, 13 Mar 2021
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976 - To beard or not to beard? Facial hair through historyFri, 12 Mar 2021
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975 - The western front: a cauldron of innovationWed, 10 Mar 2021
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974 - Assassinations: from the ancient world to JFKTue, 09 Mar 2021
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973 - The big questions of women’s historyMon, 08 Mar 2021
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969 - Why treason was so unforgivable in the Middle AgesThu, 04 Mar 2021
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964 - Adventure and archaeology in the golden age of EgyptologySat, 27 Feb 2021
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