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U-Boats and Explosives for BBC WW1 Uncut

Here are two fab little films in which I try not to drown and then blow some stuff up, all in aid of understanding World War 1 a little better. Yikes. The post U-Boats and Explosives for BBC WW1 Uncut...

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Steeple Flying for Radio4 [Er…what?]

Listen here to an episode of Making History in which I tell the story of some crazy men who jumped off church towers for entertainment. You may not be surprised that it did not always end well. A bit...

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Steeple Flying [er…what?] for Radio 4

Listen here to an episode of Making History in which I tell the story of some crazy men who jumped off church towers for entertainment. You may not be surprised that it did not always end well. A bit...

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Pirates! (And Meteorites) for BBC Radio 4

So…what is the most interesting history book that you inherited? And which book would you leave behind you? Here I answer the question for Radio4’s History Show, Making History. The post Pirates! (And...

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The Silk Road

So, I’ve been off on my travels again… This time I’m making a 3-part series for the BBC on The Silk Road. We will be travelling in a huge variety of ways and in a huge variety of styles, from Venice to...

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World War II Series for National Geographic

Well I’m about to start on a major new filming project – a big 6-part series on the Second World War. We start in Germany and then it’s France, Belgium, Poland, Italy, Burma, Thailand, China and...

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The Silk Road Episode 3: Iran

So…on we go with filming the third and final episode of The Silk Road for BBC4. China, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan all done and dusted, with the glory of the architecture of Soviet bus shelters still...

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10 Things you Didn’t Know About American Independence

My latest book The Struggle for Seapower: A Naval History of American Independence tells for the first time the full naval story of the most remarkable war of the Age of Sail and answers one of the...

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The Silk Road Journal

5000 Miles. 13 Countries. Filming The Silk Road for BBC4 was one of the biggest challenges of my life. I had been to none of the countries I was to visit. What was I most excited about? China? All...

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Jutland, Naval Battles and the Ghost of Seapower

The British obsess about naval battles and always have done. Yes, we are an island nation; yes the sea matters; but that does not necessarily mean that it matters MORE than it does — or it did — to...

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