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  • #32 The curious case of inventing Scottishness

    #32 The curious case of inventing Scottishness
    Jan 7 2026
    In 1983 Professor Hugh Trevor Roper claimed that Scottishness had been invented. We enjoyably demolish Trevor Roper’s theory and reveal that the commercialisation of romantic Scottishness in the nineteenth century had far deeper and darker roots than the manufacture of tartan and romantic fiction. (R)

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    36 min
  • #06 London fires were visible from France - Ep 6 Who really won the Battle of Britain?

    #06 London fires were visible from France - Ep 6 Who really won the Battle of Britain?
    Dec 31 2025
    Who won the Battle of Britain? For good strategic reasons Churchill claimed victory. But the Germans, who saw the eight months of the Blitz as part of the same campaign, achieved much of what they intended. (R)

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    24 min
  • #05 Forcing Britain 'to her knees' - Ep 5 Who really won the Battle of Britain?

    #05 Forcing Britain 'to her knees' - Ep 5 Who really won the Battle of Britain?
    Dec 24 2025
    The Battle of Britain was never as close as the popular story has it. The RAF was too well organised and supplied. But is that why the Luftwaffe switched to bombing London? Or was there another reason? (R)

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    25 min
  • #4 More than a double bluff - Ep 4 Who really won the Battle of Britain?

    #4 More than a double bluff - Ep 4 Who really won the Battle of Britain?
    Dec 17 2025
    Churchill talks up the threat of invasion, even though it looks impossible. ‘I might as well send my men straight into a sausage machine,’ writes the German Chief of Staff. But invasion preparations still go on. Who is bluffing who? (R)

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    32 min
  • #03 'Always carry pepper to throw in their eyes' - Ep 3 Who Really won the Battle of Britain?

    #03 'Always carry pepper to throw in their eyes' - Ep 3 Who Really won the Battle of Britain?
    Dec 10 2025
    Britain is gripped by fear of invasion. Government leaflet 'If the Invader Comes' calls for pepper and ‘a sharp knife to kill them if necessary.’ Churchill goes on BBC and says ‘we await undismayed by the impending assault. Perhaps it will come tonight.’ So why in private is Churchill saying he doubts the invasion would ever take place? (R)

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    25 min
  • #02 A battle for air superiority? - Ep 2 Who really won the Battle of Britain?

    #02 A battle for air superiority? - Ep 2 Who really won the Battle of Britain?
    Dec 3 2025
    Was the Battle of Britain a fight for Luftwaffe air superiority in order to enable an invasion? The Luftwaffe itself did not think so. It had another agenda altogether. (R)

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    30 min
  • #01 Waterworld Flotilla - Ep 1 Who really won the Battle of Britain?

    #01 Waterworld Flotilla - Ep 1 Who really won the Battle of Britain?
    Nov 26 2025
    The Germans make extraordinary preparations for the immense task of invading Britain in 1940. Why bother when neither Hitler nor any senior German officer wanted to do it or thought it was possible?

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    25 min
  • #118 'She will be called a man' (Jerome) - Ep 6 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church

    #118 'She will be called a man' (Jerome) - Ep 6 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church
    Nov 19 2025
    Church Father, Jerome, wrote this about women who took vows of chastity for God. ‘When she wishes to serve Christ more than the world, then she will cease to be a woman, and will be called a man.’ What now survives from the Roman Empire – and the Church in particular - only tells one, heavily redacted, medieval version of the past.

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    40 min
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