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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....

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

Training your body for a marathon is tough. Training your mind is even harder….

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

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

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

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....

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

Please note: this series contains mature content and listener discretion is advised….

Ashley Coulston is a convicted triple murderer, but was he responsible for far more carnage? Wherever Coulston went, a pattern of unsolved crimes followed, including those of Australia’s infamous ‘balaclava killer’ who has never been unmasked....

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....

Murdoch is an innovator who has re-shaped a media industry across continents, from Australia to t....

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

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....

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....

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

In this series, Miriam Margolyes meets a new wave of seniors who are ripping up the rulebook when it comes to ageing, to learn what they can teach us about living life to the full, whether you’re 19 or 90....

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....