66. Le traité de Versailles et la nouvelle ca...

Le 26 avril 1986, à 1h23 du matin, le réacteur n°4 de la centrale de Tchernobyl explose. En quelques secondes, le pire accident nucléaire civil de l'Histoire !40 ans après, voici le récit complet de cette nuit : l'expérience qui tourne au désastre, les milliers de liquidateurs en ...  Show more

Pendant 6 mois 1/2 (du 17 juillet 1942 au 2 février 1943), la bataille de Stalingrad a opposé les forces de l'Union soviétique à celles du Troisième Reich et de ses alliésCette confrontation a visé à prendre ou à conserver le contrôle de cette ville stratégique et surtout symboli ...  Show more

Professor David Stevenson answers listener questions on the 1919-20 conference that sought to resolve the aftermath of the First World War   In the latest episode in our series on history’s biggest topics, Professor David Stevenson explores the 1919–20 conference that sought to r ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the conference convened by the victorious powers of the Napoleonic Wars and the earlier French Revolutionary Wars, which had devastated so much of Europe over the last 25 years. The powers aimed to create a long lasting peace, partly by redrawing t ...  Show more

Gavrilo Princip, having been sent to school in Sarajevo, has become mixed up with the wrong crowd, and is now entangled in a secret Serbian nationalist organisation, the Black Hand. Hoping to be more involved in the struggle for a greater Yugoslavia, he’s left for Belgrade, and a ...  Show more

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to one of the world’s greatest empires, in June 1914, set in motion a series of events that would culminate in the First World War, where more than 15 million people would lose their lives. Franz Ferdinand’s assassin, Gavrilo Pr ...  Show more