241. Young Churchill: Prisoner and Fugitive (Part 3)

241. Young Churchill: Prisoner and Fugitive (...

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630. Tchaikovsky: LIVE at the Royal Albert Hall

What are the complex origins of Russia’s most renowned composer, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky? What inner conflicts and private contradictions lay behind his romantic music, and how did these struggles shape it? And, what dark secrets lie hidden beneath Tchaikovsky’s sweeping, lyrica ...  عرض المزيد

629. WWI: The Christmas Truce

Did the Christmas Truce - which saw a number of unofficial ceasefires between the combatants of the First World War, during the Christmas of 1914 - really occur, or was it a myth? What is the real story behind this legendary event? And, did German and British soldiers really play ...  عرض المزيد

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Winston Churchill w/ Andrew Roberts
Stories of the Second World War

Today I chat with Professor Andrew Roberts, a leading military historian and Churchill biographer. He’s the author of a new book titled Churchill: Walking with Destiny. We discuss the defining aspects of C ...

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139. Battleground 44' - The Great Escape
Battleground

The 1963 film The Great Escape immortalised the audacious real-life mass escape of 76 Allied airmen in March 1944 from the German Luftwaffe prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III in eastern Germany, now Poland. But what was the reality of the escape, who were the characters involve ...  عرض المزيد

Winston Churchill, The Finest Hour
It Was Said

Confronted with the impending threat of Nazi invasion, Winston Churchill outlines the stakes of the war and rallies the British people to fight on against seemingly insurmountable odds. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/p ...  عرض المزيد

Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech
Witness History

In March 1946, the UK's former wartime leader, Winston Churchill, gave a historic speech which would come to symbolise the beginnings of the Cold War. Churchill had lost power following a crushing election defeat in Britain in 1945. Encouraged by the US President Harry Truman, Ch ...  عرض المزيد