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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....

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

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

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

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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....

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....

Ivan Beckley is about to become a fully-qualified doctor in the UK. But he’s not convinced that healthcare works for everyone equally....

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....

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

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

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

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

It started with an anonymous post in 2017. They called themselves 'Q' and left a trail of cryptic messages for an increasing number of followers to obsess over....

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....

In 2006, reporter Jamie Fullerton flew to Ohio to wrestle a bear named Caesar for a quirky magazine article....

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....

Growing older can be daunting. And for many women in particular, it can be downright terrifying....