Al Murray: Why Do The Brits Win Every War
Bruno Tonioli joins Al to look at key battle tactics during the Roman Invasion back in AD 43.
2026-07-04 01:16:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-04 02:12:49 +0000 UTC(56m)
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Combat Ships
A chronological telling of the dramatic D-Day story, focusing on vessels that made the landings possible. From the X-Craft lying on the seabed days before the invasion to battleships like USS Texas and HMS Belfast that bombarded the Normandy beaches.
2026-07-04 12:35:35 +0000 UTC→2026-07-04 13:32:40 +0000 UTC(57m)
Combat Ships
The episode begins with the story of HMS Conqueror sinking the General Belgrano during the Falklands War. Later, a crew member from the USS Nautilus describes what it was like to serve on the world's first nuclear submarine.
2026-07-04 11:38:14 +0000 UTC→2026-07-04 12:35:35 +0000 UTC(57m)
Combat Ships
In the waters of Scapa Flow, discover sunken dreadnoughts that tell the story of how a U-Boat sank HMS Royal Oak. Later, on HMS Cavalier, we explore how a raid by commandos called Operation Chariot proved the vulnerability of the battleship.
2026-07-04 10:41:29 +0000 UTC→2026-07-04 11:38:14 +0000 UTC(56m)
Combat Ships
We explore two submarines – former Cold War enemies now moored in a Kent river, and discover the story of Vasili Arkhipov, a Soviet submariner who refused to authorise a nuclear launch.
2026-07-04 09:44:33 +0000 UTC→2026-07-04 10:41:29 +0000 UTC(56m)
Combat Ships
John F Kennedy first made news in 1943 when, as a skipper of a torpedo boat in the Pacific, he and his crew were shipwrecked. We tell the story of their rescue.
2026-07-04 08:48:11 +0000 UTC→2026-07-04 09:44:33 +0000 UTC(56m)
Combat Ships
We pinpoint the moment the USA became a global superpower when we recreate how the USS Olympia won the Battle of Manila Bay, and we show how the revolutionary British HMS Dreadnought brought ship design into the 20th century.
2026-07-04 07:52:11 +0000 UTC→2026-07-04 08:48:11 +0000 UTC(56m)
Combat Ships
A chronological telling of the dramatic D-Day story, focusing on vessels that made the landings possible. From the X-Craft lying on the seabed days before the invasion to battleships like USS Texas and HMS Belfast that bombarded the Normandy beaches.
2026-07-04 06:55:06 +0000 UTC→2026-07-04 07:52:11 +0000 UTC(57m)
Al Murray: Why Do The Brits Win Every War
Bruno Tonioli joins Al to look at key battle tactics during the Roman Invasion back in AD 43.
2026-07-04 01:16:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-04 02:12:49 +0000 UTC(56m)
Al Murray: Why Do The Brits Win Every War
Al joins forces with German comedian Henning Wehn to delve deeper into the truth behind some World War II myths.
2026-07-04 00:19:08 +0000 UTC→2026-07-04 01:16:00 +0000 UTC(56m)
Al Murray: Why Do The Brits Win Every War
Frenchman Fred Sirieix joins Al Murray to break down what really happened during the Napoleonic wars. Did Britain really win the battle of Waterloo?
2026-07-03 23:21:57 +0000 UTC→2026-07-04 00:19:08 +0000 UTC(57m)
Mengele Unveiled
A detailed investigation reconstructs Mengele's experiments at Auschwitz, revealing his connections with other criminal doctors at Auschwitz and the German academic establishment.
2026-07-03 22:12:53 +0000 UTC→2026-07-03 23:21:57 +0000 UTC(1h9m)
Mengele Unveiled
A thorough investigation into Mengele's youth, exploring the connections between medicine and Nazism that transformed an aspiring dentist into the Angel of Death of Auschwitz.
2026-07-03 21:05:37 +0000 UTC→2026-07-03 22:12:53 +0000 UTC(1h7m)
The Sound And The Fury
In the East, Hitler launches Operation Barbarossa and invades the Soviet Union, reaching the outskirts of Moscow. But winter and Soviet resistance break his momentum. The Red Army, boosted by relentless propaganda, put up a fierce fight.
2026-07-03 20:08:04 +0000 UTC→2026-07-03 21:05:37 +0000 UTC(57m)
The Sound And The Fury
On September 1, 1939, Germany's invasion of Poland throws the world into war. No longer a European affair, the conflict spreads: in the Pacific, Japan—at war with China since 1937—accelerates its imperial ambitions.
2026-07-03 19:10:50 +0000 UTC→2026-07-03 20:08:04 +0000 UTC(57m)
Secret Wars Uncovered
How will the new Cold War, involving the US, Russia, the UK and China, play out? Will trade and cyber warfare be the worst of it or is military war inevitable?
2026-07-03 12:35:49 +0000 UTC→2026-07-03 13:32:35 +0000 UTC(56m)
Secret Wars Uncovered
In 1989, 20,000 US troops entered Panama to overthrow military dictator Manuel Noriega and around 500 civilians were killed. What prompted the invasion?
2026-07-03 11:38:47 +0000 UTC→2026-07-03 12:35:49 +0000 UTC(57m)
Al Murray: Why Do The Brits Win Every War
Al joins forces with German comedian Henning Wehn to delve deeper into the truth behind some World War II myths.
2026-07-03 10:41:55 +0000 UTC→2026-07-03 11:38:47 +0000 UTC(56m)
Al Murray: Why Do The Brits Win Every War
Frenchman Fred Sirieix joins Al Murray to break down what really happened during the Napoleonic wars. Did Britain really win the battle of Waterloo?
2026-07-03 09:44:44 +0000 UTC→2026-07-03 10:41:55 +0000 UTC(57m)
History's Greatest Aircraft
The Avro Lancaster is the legendary British heavy bomber that carved its place in history with Bomber Command during World War 2. That conflict saw over seven thousand of these iconic aircraft come off the production line.
2026-07-03 08:47:41 +0000 UTC→2026-07-03 09:44:44 +0000 UTC(57m)
History's Greatest Aircraft
Unusually, we look at the later, clipped wing version flown by Czech refugee pilots in the UK during WW2. We get close-up with a beautifully restored example, fly her and unearth long unseen test and operational footage.
2026-07-03 07:50:52 +0000 UTC→2026-07-03 08:47:41 +0000 UTC(56m)
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