Aug 2024

D-Day: The Road to Paris

We conclude our D-Day story. What happened after the sixth of June? Three months of bitter fighting across Normandy. Hundreds of thousands of casualties. And, as Operation Overlord draws to a close, the fate of Paris hangs in the balance… A Noiser production, written by Jeff Daws ... Show More

1h 7m

Aug 2024

D-Day: Angels of Mercy

Thousands of nurses begin landing in France, some of them never to return. Codebreakers at Bletchley Park decrypt German communications, feeding vital intel to the front lines. Female pilots dodge German fighters in the skies above Britain. And on a sinking hospital ship in the C ... Show More

48m 20s

Jul 2024

D-Day: Journalists on the Front Line

Allied journalists parachute into France and land on the beaches with the invasion force. Legendary reporter Martha Gellhorn stows away on a ship, determined to beat her estranged husband, Ernest Hemingway, to the D-Day scoop. And a homing pigeon known as Gustav brings the first ... Show More

42m 33s

Jul 2024

9. Katastrophe

D-Day from the German perspective. Star general, Erwin Rommel, celebrates his wife’s birthday… 500 miles from Normandy. A dinner party at his vacant headquarters is interrupted by alarming news, as the first Allied troops arrive in France. But as the Nazi top brass scramble to re ... Show More

42m 24s

Jul 2024

7. Omaha Beach

American forces land on Omaha, the most deadly of the D-Day beaches. So many are killed in the first few hours that a US general almost calls off the attack. It’s the closest D-Day ever comes to failure. But amidst the turmoil, as the tide literally turns, can the Allied soldiers ... Show More

50m 39s

Jun 2024

Débarquement du 6 juin 1944 : comment s’est forgée la légende du D-Day

Il y a 80 ans jour pour jour, près de 150 000 soldats alliés débarquaient sur les plages de Normandie pour percer les défenses nazies. Le Débarquement du 6 juin 1944 est avant tout un défi logistique et stratégique, préparé pendant des mois. Son objectif : ouvrir un nouveau front ... Show More

31m 28s

Jul 2024

10. Journalists on the Front Line

Allied journalists parachute into France and land on the beaches with the invasion force. Legendary reporter Martha Gellhorn stows away on a ship, determined to beat her estranged husband, Ernest Hemingway, to the D-Day scoop. And a homing pigeon known as Gustav brings the first ... Show More

42m 33s

May 4

VE Day

Victory in Europe Day brought the curtain down on a horrific conflict that decimated a continent and upended the world. But the price of victory over fascism was impossibly high. Many millions had been killed, and vast areas of Europe had been all but destroyed. VE Day signalled ... Show More

58m 50s

Jul 2024

Eisenhower’s Logistics and Diplomatic Nightmare: Planning and Executing D-Day

In the months leading up to D-Day, Eisenhower’s attention was in relentless demand, whether he was negotiating, rallying troops, or solving crises from his headquarters in Bushy Park, London. He projected optimism outwardly but resisted it inwardly. The day of the invasion, he ga ... Show More

1h 1m

Nov 2024

How Stalin won WW2

In June 1944 Allied armies landed in force in northern France, and the liberation of western Europe began. But, the battle that really sealed Hitler's fate was taking place in the east, as the Red Army prepared an almighty assault against the war-weary Wehrmacht. Speaking to Rob ... Show More

40m 7s

Dec 2020

WW2: The Battle of the Bulge

Sophie (aged 7) and Ellie (aged 5) want to know if battles ever happened at Christmas so together we tell the story of the Battle of the Bulge in World War Two. It is winter 1944. Allied troops are at the borders of Germany. Germany seems defeated. The allies are resting, prepa ... Show More

9m 58s

Apr 28

[1/2] 1945 : Les derniers jours du IIIe Reich

80 ans après le suicide d'Adolf Hitler, le 30 avril 1945, Virginie Girod raconte les derniers jours du IIIe Reich. Dans le premier épisode de ce double récit inédit d'Au coeur de l'Histoire, l'Allemagne nazie est acculée par l'avancée fulgurante des troupes alliées après le débar ... Show More

14m 3s

Jan 2025

Benito Mussolini Part 5: The Pact of Steel

At the Munich Conference, Mussolini postures as a peacemaker. With Hitler in the ascendancy, the Rome-Berlin Axis is upgraded to a military alliance. High on fascist adrenaline, Il Duce invades Albania. Soon, in the backdraft of the German Blitzkrieg, he will declare war on Brita ... Show More

1h 1m

D-Day: Katastrophe