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- In the Second World War, German U Boats became a threat to all Allied shipping. By using under utilised resources like the WRENS and other experienced Naval staff, a solution was developed.
- Oops I Changed The World tells the fascinating stories of accidental and surprise inventions that have transformed our lives.
- Deep under Antarctica there are traces of a mysterious world. Millions of years ago, vast rainforests covered the now icy continent, giant titanosaurs roamed the valleys and proto-mammals darted through the undergrowth. It was also home to the largest carnivorous dinosaur of the time, cryolophosaurus. Dive into the lost world beneath the ice as a team of researchers digs up fossils in this challenging site. It has long been believed that Antarctica was largely devoid of life. But in the 1990s, scientists make a new discovery: the discovery of the carnivorous dinosaur cryolophosaurus, which leads to a renewed interest in the icy continent. What happened to the Antarctic dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures after the infamous asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago?
- A series that mixes mind blowing real science with unsolved mysteries, global conspiracies, and true stories
- Rugari and his family live on the border of the Serengeti. During the dry season hungry lions threaten their village, and Rugari is faced with a terrible decision - save his livelihood, or find a way to live with lions?
- Welcome to my channel. On this channel I speak about 4 things: "languages", "videogames", "Medieval weapons and armours" and "History" and much more. If you are interested in one of these topics please make sure to watch my videos and if you want Subscribe for more content.
- 2020– 1h 18mPodcast Episode
- In 1803 in Hammersmith, a village then outside London, England, a ghostly apparition appeared in a church graveyard and frightened late night passersby. When a blunderbuss toting excise officer mistakenly shot a bricklayer dressed head to shoes in white was shot to death, his trial for murder began a nearly 200-year legal debate in the United Kingdom over what could be asserted as a valid self-defense justification for a charge of murder or manslaughter.
- 2020– 1h 41mPodcast Episode
- In this exploration of machines becoming more human and humans becoming more like machines Athena links herself to a robot hand endowed with a delicate sense of touch and gets a sneak peak at unreleased consumer products which promise to optimize our brainwaves.
- Why do governments around the world outlaw a class of substances which have been used safely by humans for thousands of years and which may have played a key role in early developments in human culture spirituality and creativity?.
- The concept of race was invented during colonial and imperialist eras as a means to reify political power structures.
- Human interference with the environment has led us to the brink of an extinction-level climate-change crisis.
- The discovery of CRISPR Cas-9 in 2012 opened up seemingly limitless potential in the field of genetic editing.
- In one form or another energy makes the world go round.
- Over the centuries scientific theories have emerged that rival religious cosmology in terms of ambition and scope.
- 2020– 39mPodcast EpisodeThe story of Ted Conrad, who stole over $100,000 from a bank in Cleveland, Ohio were he was employed a 19-year-old and avoided capture the subsequent manhunt by local police, the FBI and the U.S. Federal Marshals service and being profiled multiple times by true crimes national television programs over the next 52 years.
- The Casual Criminalist delves into the infamous Hi-Fi murders which were the torture and killing of three people during a robbery at the Hi-fi Shop, a home audio store in Ogden, Utah in 1974 and the severe life-changing injuries to two other hostages.. Violence included kicking a pen into an ear and the brutal rape of an eighteen-year-old girl who was later shot in the head and being forced to drain cleaner, causing burns to their mouths and throats of the victims.
- 2021– 39mPodcast EpisodeSimon delves into the origins and meanings of the "Blank Room Soup" video, which first appeared in the mid-2000s and consisted of an Asian man unhappily eating soup while two Rayray characters confront him.
- 2020– 1h 3mPodcast Episode
- 2020– 1h 56mPodcast EpisodeSimon delves into the still unsolved murder of six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey.
- The Anglo-Irish Treaty and the withdrawal of Great Britain from almost all of Ireland was supposed to be a big step towards full Irish independence. But the pro-Treaty Irish Free State and the anti-Treaty IRA couldn't bridge their differences and so the Irish Civil War broke out. With further support from Britain and drastic measures, the Irish National Army was able to quell the IRA uprising that didn't have the popular support they previously enjoyed.
- 2014– 28mTV EpisodeThe movement for more Irish self-determination had turned into a full out revolutionary movement by 1919. The British Empire was losing control over Ireland and by early 1920 was in a full out guerrilla war against the Irish Republican Army (IRA). To regain control more police forces were recruited with wide-ranging authorities - and a lack of actual police training. With their mismatched equipment made from war supplies, they soon got the nickname "Black and Tans".
- 2014– 30mTV EpisodeThe conflict between the Irish independence movement and the UK government had been heating up since 1919. The summer of 1920 brought a new level of escalation with the arrival of the the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary. Former veterans of the First World War were brought in to quell the rebellion and eliminate the strongholds controlled by the IRA.
- 2014– 30mTV EpisodeThe British government was confident that the guerrilla war against the Irish Independence movement would soon be under control. But with the events around Bloody Sunday and the Killmichael Ambush, the situation reached a new level of violence.
- 2014– 23mTV EpisodeThe Irish and British sides of the Irish War of Independence were exhausted from two years of fighting. The IRA was also about to run out of ammunition and other vital supplies to keep up the fight. And so the British government and the Irish delegation started to negotiate a treaty.
- 2014– 23mTV EpisodeThe once global Spanish Empire was a distant memory in 1921 and in one of the last Spanish colonies trouble was brewing. The Berbers in the Rif mountains under Abd El-Krim were vying for control and so the Spanish Army started a fateful expedition that would end in one of the biggest colonial defeats in history - the Battle at Annual.
- When WW2 breaks out, an elite force of German U-boat Commanders attempt to starve Britain into submission. Vera Mathews heads the reformed WRENS.
- Dönitz's U-boats continue to terrorise the transatlantic routes; in Britain, the WRENS prepare to frustrate his plans, while the Royal Navy turns to a retired war gamer.
- The WRENS finally get the break they have been looking for and are posted to the newly formed war gaming room, to work out and develop tactics for the Navy.
- Roberts and Laidlaw have uncovered a flaw in the Royal Navy's anti U Boat tactic called 'Buttercup'. They then set about modelling a counter tactic, by wargaming various scenarios, and finally develop 'Operation Raspberry'.
- Frustration rise on both sides. For every new tactic, the enemy comes up with a countermeasure. This places ever more pressure on Roberts and Laidlaw to ensure that their gaming produces the best tactics for the Navy.
- WATU faces a crucial encounter for ONS.5 in the battle of the Atlantic. Donitz unleashes the new torpedo targeting on escort ships. Roberts and Laidlaw must again develop new tactics to retake the advantage.