The Great Train Robbery

During the Vietnam War, North Vietnamese VietCong guerrillas built a vast network of tunnels in the south of the country as part of the insurgency against the South Vietnamese government and their American allies. The tunnel network was a key base and shelter for the North Vietna ...  عرض المزيد

On 24 December 1951, in the United States, television history was made with the live broadcast of Amahl and the Night Visitors, the first opera ever composed specifically for TV.Written by acclaimed Italian composer Gian Carlo Menotti, the opera almost didn’t happen. Struggling w ...  عرض المزيد

The Great Train Robbery of 1963 saw a gang of career criminals stage a daring heist of the multi-million pound cargo of a travelling Royal Mail train. The investigation that followed spanned many years and covered the globe. But how did the idea of the crime come about? What went ...  عرض المزيد

Alice and Matt speak to Colin Mackenzie, the tenacious reporter who managed to track down train robber, Ronnie Biggs, after he escaped prison. A Fleet Street veteran, he takes us back to a golden era in British journalism, and into the whirlwind 48 hours he spent with Biggs in ...

This week, we take a deep dive into the world of the rich and famous as we discuss the biggest burglary in English criminal history. And I say ‘burglary’, but actually it was plural – the gang at the centre of today’s case were responsible for not one, but three burglaries in ...  عرض المزيد

Londres et Paris, 1855 C’est à l’époque de la naissance des grandes expositions universelles que nous plonge cet épisode. Un temps où Londres et Paris se revendiquaient comme des vitrines de la prospérité industrielle et des innovations techniques. Au milieu du 19ème siècle, le d ...  عرض المزيد