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Journey Through Time

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Forgotten stories from history and how they shaped the way we live today. Hear about the ordinary people from history and the extraordinary impact they’ve had on the present. Hosted by historians David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell, Journey Through Time will show how everyday actions have the most remarkable unintended…

80 episodes tracked

Journey Through Time

79. McCarthyism: Paving The Way For Trump (Ep 6)

78. McCarthyism: The Fall of Joseph McCarthy (Ep 5)

77. McCarthyism: The Crucible, High Noon, and Hollywood’s Revenge (Ep 4)

76. McCarthyism: Spies, Lies, And Smears (Ep 3)

75. McCarthyism: Hollywood on Trial (Ep 2)

74. McCarthyism: How The Red Scare Gripped America (Ep 1)

73. Chernobyl: An Explosion That Brought Down A Superpower (Ep 6)

72. Chernobyl: Soviet Secrets Are Still Coming Out (Ep 5)

71. Chernobyl: Three Men Who Saved Europe (Ep 4)

70. Chernobyl: The Battle Against Nuclear Fallout (Ep 3)

69. Chernobyl: The Countdown To Catastrophe (Ep 2)

68. Chernobyl: The Worst Nuclear Disaster In History (Ep 1)

67. The Spanish Civil War: The Death of Democracy (Ep 6)

66. The Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Picasso and The Nazis (Ep 5)

65. The Spanish Civil War: Orwell V Stalin (Ep 4)

64. The Spanish Civil War: A Nazi Training Ground (Ep 3)

63. The Spanish Civil War: Fighting Fascism With Hemingway And Orwell (Ep 2)

62. The Spanish Civil War: A Nation In Flames (Ep 1)

61. A Christmas Carol: From Alastair Sim To The Muppets (Ep 3)

60. A Christmas Carol: The Radical Message Hidden In A Holiday Classic (Ep 2)

59. A Christmas Carol: The Book That Brought Back Christmas (Ep 1)

58. Black GIs: Brown Babies and Broken Hearts (Ep 5)

57. Black GIs: American Mutiny On British Streets (Ep 4)

56. Black GIs: The Battle of Bamber Bridge (Ep 3)

55. Black GIs: We Ain’t No Slaves, This Is England (Ep 2)

54. Black GIs: When Jim Crow Came To Britain (Ep 1)

Introducing: The Rest Is Science

53. Harriet Tubman: The Woman Who Led An Army (Ep 4)

52. Harriet Tubman: How Most Wanted Woman Never Got Caught (Ep 3)

51. Harriet Tubman: The Underground Railroad From Slavery To Freedom (Ep 2)

50. Harriet Tubman: The Freedom Fighter Who Escaped From Slavery (Ep 1)

49. The Paris Commune: France Wages War On Its Own Capital (Ep 4)

48. The Paris Commune: Can The City Of Lights Govern Itself? (Ep 3)

47. The Paris Commune: The City That Ate Its Zoo (Ep 2)

46. The Paris Commune: France’s Bloodiest Revolution (Ep 1)

45. The Gunpowder Plot: Why Do We Remember The Fifth Of November? (Ep 4)

44. The Gunpowder Plot: Conspirators Caught Red-Handed (Ep 3)

43. The Gunpowder Plot: The Recruitment of Guy Fawkes (Ep 2)

42. The Gunpowder Plot: Britain’s Most Famous Traitors (Ep 1)

41. Salem Witch Trials: The Legacy (Ep 3)

40. How The Salem Witch Trials Became Deadly (Ep 2)

39. What Started The Salem Witch Hunt? (Ep 1)

38. The Man Behind Big Brother: Why We’re Hooked on Reality TV (Ep 4)

37. From The Kardashians to Donald Trump: The History of Reality TV (Ep 3)

36. The Art of Manipulation: The History of Reality TV (Ep 2)

35. Why We’re Obsessed With The Traitors: The History of Reality TV (Ep 1)

34. Cotton Will Bring The World To its Knees: The Craziest Gamble in History (Ep 3)

33. Prince Albert’s Dying Wish: Stopping An American-British War (Ep 2)

32. From Lincoln to Obama: A History of the Special Relationship (Ep 1)

31. Martin Luther King: I Have A Dream (Ep 2)

30. The March That Changed America (Ep 1)

29. The Downfall of Billy the Kid: Gun Fights and Prison Breaks (Ep 2)

28. Billy The Kid: The Outlaw Who Became A Legend (Ep 1)

27. The Trial That Made Hitler Famous (Ep 2)

26. The Failed Nazi Coup (Ep 1)

25. The Marketing of Fear: Selling Guns to America (Ep 3)

24. Cowboys, Gangsters, and Assassins: How Gun Laws Died (Ep 2)

23. The Gun Myth That Shaped A Nation (Ep 1)

22. The Great Fire: London Rises From The Ashes (Ep 2)

21. The Great Fire: London’s Burning (Ep 1)

20. How Sci-Fi Became Reality: The History of AI

19. The Wrath of God: England’s Greatest Natural Disaster (Ep 2)

18. England’s Hurricane: 10,000 Dead (Ep 1)

17. Britain vs America: The Deadly Culture War (Ep 2)

16. Carnage in New York: Killing Over Shakespeare (Ep 1)

15. Showdown at Sea: Pirates vs Bounty Hunters (Ep 2)

14. The Real Pirates of the Caribbean: Sex, Scandal, and the Golden Age of Piracy (Ep 1)

13. The Woman Behind the Welfare State

12. Murder Trial of the Century: Execution, Dissection and Revenge (Ep 2)

11. Scotland’s Most Notorious Serial Killers (Ep 1)

10. 1983: The World On The Brink (Ep 2)

9. Able Archer: The Closest We Ever Came To Nuclear War (Ep 1)

8. The Myth of Tokyo Rose: Truman and the FBI Witch Hunt (Ep 2)

7. The Myth of Tokyo Rose: The Woman Accused of Betraying America (Ep 1)

6. Darwin, Dickens, and a Giant Diamond: Inside The Great Exhibition (Ep 2)

5. The Great Exhibition: Prince Albert, Revolutionaries, and the Duke of Wellington (Ep 1)

4. The First Woman to Run for President: Sex, Scandal, and Suffragists (Ep 2)

3. The First Woman to Run for President: Rags to Riches (Ep 1)

2. The Attack that Shook America: Black Tom Explodes (Ep 2)