No One Saw It Coming
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The Pastry War: Half-baked diplomacy
September 27, 2026 · 26 minA ransacked bakery. A wildly inflated bill. A demand so absurd it should have been laughed out of the room. Instead it triggered warships. In 1838, France used a pastry chef's grievance to justify a blockade, a siege, and an assault on…
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The Pig War: Hogging the border
September 20, 2026 · 26 minA pig trots over an invisible border, wandering into a potato farmer's garden. It's not the first time it's trespassed but it is the last. The farmer takes his gun off the wall and shoots it dead. But what he doesn't realise was that by…
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The mythical football war
September 13, 2026 · 26 minIt’s called The Football War and raged for just 100 hours. It’s a catchy name for a conflict supposedly sparked by a World Cup qualifier game. But behind the catchy title, and away from the football pitch lies a deeper, darker history…
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Birds 1 - Humans 0
September 6, 2026 · 26 minIn 1932 Australia sent soldiers with machine guns to stop 20,000 emus rampaging through wheat fields. What followed was a national embarrassment and earned the emus a reputation as the victors of one of history's strangest wars. Dr Ruth…
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The man who gave the gods new faces
August 30, 2026 · 26 minTheir faces are everywhere: on calendars, incense packets, and soap packaging. But how did the Hindu deities' faces go beyond temples and shrines? In nineteenth-century India, Ravi Varma dared to paint the gods in a way no one had before…
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What really happened at Pompeii?
August 23, 2026 · 26 minYou think you know Pompeii. A city wiped out. People frozen in time. A disaster that stopped time. But how much of that story is actually true? Ancient historian and writer Dr Jess Venner (The Lost Voices of Pompeii) sits down with Marc…
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Titanic mistakes sunk a black empire
August 16, 2026 · 26 minMarcus Garvey is known as a civil rights activist and leader of the Pan-Africanism movement. But there’s a part of his story you may not know about. Social historian Darrel Blake tells Marc Fennell (Stuff The British Stole) the lesser…
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The prince, the liar, and the race to save cars
August 9, 2026 · 26 minImagine driving from Beijing, through the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, and across Russia into Europe. The roads are terrible, you don't have petrol stations and you have pack animals carrying supplies. Oh, and it's a race so step on it. In 1907…