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On the surface, the Victorian age is one of propriety, industry, prudishness and piety. But scrat....

Powered flight. Votes for women. Human sexuality. Mass migration. The psychology of dreams. The magic of the movies. Spies and detectives. Welcome to Stephen Fry’s Edwardian Secrets....

John Safran has fallen in with the wrong crowd, again. He has spent months among sorcerers, satan....

Days after Richard Dorrough violently takes his own life at a public gun range in Perth, Western Australia, his fiancée receives a parcel from him in the post - a book filled with the former sailor’s handwriting....

Step into iconic relationship therapist Esther Perel's office and listen as 10 anonymous couple....

Join best-selling author Jon Ronson as he traces the story of one very strange butterfly effect: ....

World-renowned adventurer and broadcaster, Bear Grylls, presents some of the most incredible near....

Step into iconic relationship therapist Esther Perel's office and listen as 8 anonymous couples....

How Not to F*ck Up Your Marriage Too Bad is the frank, intimate and provocative follow-up to th....

As long as there have been humans, there have been LGBTQI+ people. From an 18th century gentleman’s servant known as 'Princess Seraphina', to a lesbian punk rocker in Malaysia, challenging her country’s homophobic laws today; queer life always finds a way....

Narrated by award-winning actor Martin Sheen, The Home Front: Life in America During World War....

Sir Michael Caine knows a thing or two about gangs: whether that’s joining one as a kid, or playing them in movies for over 50 years....

David Suchet sets out to establish what connects three of the world's major religions - and criti....

Crusading knights, Tudor monarchs, the D-Day landings and more. Travel back in time with some of ....

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[Contains sensitive content] On a warm evening in a small Mexican border town, men and women star....

Between 1995 and 2002 four young trainee soldiers were found dead at a military training camp outside London, Deepcut....

When the body of a young, gay, Black man, Gemmel Moore, was pulled out of the West Hollywood apartment of Ed Buck — a white, millionaire donor to the Democratic party — the coroner called it an accidental overdose. The police didn’t arrest Buck. And the media refused to report on it....

Meet Miranda. She is a cheerful and happy-go-lucky single girl who just happens to be a dominatrix with a dungeon in her flat....

“We are as gods and might as well get good at it.” These are the opening lines that radical thinker, environmentalist, and technologist Stewart Brand wrote for The Whole Earth Catalog....