The CIA-Venezuela Cocaine Connection (1993)
60 Minutes- The CIA’s Cocaine (1993) CBS
Beatrix Potter: The Secret Life Of A Victorian Genius
Following in the footsteps of the Victorian publishing sensation, Patricia travels from London to Scotland and the Lake District to discover what fired Beatrix's imagination and where her love and…
The Underground Archivist: 50 Years of Saving New York History
Step inside the life and legacy of a New York artist who’s spent 50 years turning loss into living shrines by preserving the forgotten stories of the queer underground. In…
Missives Impossible
I have an appointment with the twenty-first century,Baldwin tells one interviewer, less than a decade before his death in 1987. I guess I feel like I’m part of that appointment,…
War & Peace 2016
War & Peace is a British historical drama television serial first broadcast on BBC One on 3 January 2016, produced by BBC Cymru Wales, in association with The Weinstein Company,…
Who Was The Best English Monarch? David Mitchell Rates The Royals!
Who was the worst King and Queen of England? What made a King or Queen successful? In this video, comedian and author of 'Unruly: A History of England's King and…
Astral Travels with Jack London
On the centenary of Jack London's death, Benjamin Breen looks at the writer's last book to be published in his lifetime, The Star Rover — a strange tale about solitary…
History Extra podcast: The librarian who stole KGB secrets
When an elderly man with a battered suitcase walked into the British embassy in Vilnius in 1992, few could have guessed what he was about to hand over. Gordon Corera…
History Extra podcast: The problem with poo: a millennium of manure
When did poo become a problem? Why was manure so important in the medieval economy? And why don't we have vacuum-powered sewers? All these questions – and more – are…
In Search of Lost Stein
DESPITE HER REPUTATION as a long-winded writer, Gertrude Stein had a talent for pithiness. Of Oakland, the town where she grew up, she famously remarked: “There is no there, there.”…