LearnOutLoud.com Audio - Empire Podcast

The Troubles: Bloody Sunday & The British Army in Belfast (Ep 2) (Mon, Mar 31, 2025)
The Troubles: War in the Streets of Northern Ireland (Ep 1) (Thu, Mar 27, 2025)
240. Ireland’s Fight For Freedom: The Irish Civil War (Ep 3) (Tue, Mar 25, 2025)
239. Ireland’s Fight For Freedom: The Rise of The IRA (Ep 2) (Thu, Mar 20, 2025)
238. Ireland’s Fight For Freedom: The Easter Rising (Ep 1) (Tue, Mar 18, 2025)
237. The Great Famine: The Irish Exodus to America (Ep 2) (Thu, Mar 13, 2025)
236. The Great Famine: The Blight Strikes Ireland (Ep 1) (Tue, Mar 11, 2025)
235. The Viceroy, The Psychopath, and The Merchant: The Irish in Empire (Ep 3) (Thu, Mar 06, 2025)
234. Battle of the Boyne: Clash of Two Kings (Ep 2) (Tue, Mar 04, 2025)
233. Blood and Betrayal: Oliver Cromwell's Irish Invasion (Ep 1) (Thu, Feb 27, 2025)
Legacy: Genghis Khan (Wed, Feb 26, 2025)
232. Colonising Ireland: The First Plantations (Ep 2) (Tue, Feb 25, 2025)
231. Colonising Ireland: Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, & The Tudor Conquest (Ep 1) (Thu, Feb 20, 2025)
230. Britain’s Last Colony: Trump, Brexit, and Russia-Ukraine (Ep 2) (Tue, Feb 18, 2025)
229. Britain’s Last Colony: The Second World War, Forced Deportations, and 9/11 (Ep 1) (Thu, Feb 13, 2025)
228. The Man Who Lived A Thousand Lives: Prisoner of War (Ep 2) (Tue, Feb 11, 2025)
227. The Man Who Lived A Thousand Lives: Taming Nature (Ep 1) (Thu, Feb 06, 2025)
226. The Rise and Fall of East India Company Painting (Ep 2) (Tue, Feb 04, 2025)
225. Painting the Empire: Art of the East India Company (Ep 1) (Thu, Jan 30, 2025)
224. Empire in Your Garden (Tue, Jan 28, 2025)
223. Empire of Plants: From Kew Gardens to Botany Bay (Thu, Jan 23, 2025)
222. The Downfall of the Mughals (Ep 3) (Tue, Jan 21, 2025)
221. War of Succession: The Battle That Shook India (Ep 2) (Thu, Jan 16, 2025)
220. Battle of Brothers: The Puritan vs The Mystic (Ep 1) (Tue, Jan 14, 2025)
219. Building The Taj Mahal: Love, Loss, & Splendour (Ep 2) (Thu, Jan 09, 2025)
218. Creator of The Taj Mahal: Shah Jahan’s Rise to Power (Ep 1) (Tue, Jan 07, 2025)
217. Zebras and Zodiacs: Jahangir’s Art Revolution (Thu, Jan 02, 2025)
216. Seeds of British India: England’s First Ambassador to the Mughal Court (Tue, Dec 31, 2024)
215. Jahangir: A World of Light And Darkness (Thu, Dec 26, 2024)
214. The Empire of Frankincense & Myrrh (Tue, Dec 24, 2024)
213. How Three Wise Men Became Three Kings (Thu, Dec 19, 2024)
212. Who Were The Three Wise Men? (Tue, Dec 17, 2024)
211. A Beautiful World: The Art of Akbar (Thu, Dec 12, 2024)
210. Akbar the Great: Revolutionising Religious Tolerance (Tue, Dec 10, 2024)
209. Akbar the Great (Thu, Dec 05, 2024)
208. Humayun Reconquers India (Tue, Dec 03, 2024)
207. The Stargazing Hippie vs The Lion King (Thu, Nov 28, 2024)
Introducing... The Rest Is Classified (Wed, Nov 27, 2024)
206. Babur: Guns, Gardens & Diamonds (Tue, Nov 26, 2024)
205. Babur: The Taking of Delhi (Thu, Nov 21, 2024)
204. Babur: The First Mughal Emperor (Tue, Nov 19, 2024)
203. Captain Hook, Peter Pan & The Dark Side of Neverland (Thu, Nov 14, 2024)
202. Long John Silver: The Truth Behind Treasure Island (Tue, Nov 12, 2024)
201. The Raj at War (Thu, Nov 07, 2024)
200. The East India Company’s Global Manhunt (Tue, Nov 05, 2024)
199. Robbing the World’s Wealthiest Dynasty (Thu, Oct 31, 2024)
198. The Pirate Trial of the Century (Tue, Oct 29, 2024)
197. The Pirate Hunter (Wed, Oct 23, 2024)
196. Blackbeard’s Reign of Terror (Mon, Oct 21, 2024)
195. Blackbeard & the Pirates of the Caribbean (Wed, Oct 16, 2024)(3:10:00 -0000, )
194. Empire of Numbers: Fibonacci and the Birth of Modern Money (Mon, Oct 14, 2024)
193. Empire of Numbers: The Indian Origin of Arabic Numerals (Wed, Oct 09, 2024)
192. Native American Chiefs, the Founding of Canada, and the KKK: Scots in America (Mon, Oct 07, 2024)
191. Slave, Slaver, Abolitionist: Three Scots in Africa (Wed, Oct 02, 2024)
190. Rags to Riches: The Scots in India (Mon, Sep 30, 2024)
189. Culloden: Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Last Stand (Wed, Sep 25, 2024)
188. Bonnie Prince Charlie: The Young Pretender (Mon, Sep 23, 2024)
187. The Birth of Britain (Wed, Sep 18, 2024)
186. Scotland: A Nation in Crisis (Mon, Sep 16, 2024)
185. The God Kings of Angkor Wat (Wed, Sep 11, 2024)
184. The Buddhist Merlin (Mon, Sep 09, 2024)
183. The Poet Kings: Taking Hinduism to Southeast Asia (Wed, Sep 04, 2024)
182. The Lady Macbeth of China (Mon, Sep 02, 2024)
181. The Dragon Empress: China’s Game of Thrones (Wed, Aug 28, 2024)
180. Gold & God: Connecting India & Ancient Rome (Mon, Aug 26, 2024)
179. The Golden Road: Rise of the Indosphere (Wed, Aug 21, 2024)
178. The Vietnam War: Nixon, Vietnamisation, and the Fall of Saigon (Mon, Aug 19, 2024)
177. The Vietnam War: Lyndon Johnson, Americanisation, and Operation Rolling Thunder (Wed, Aug 14, 2024)
176. The Vietnam War: The Rise of Ho Chi Minh (Mon, Aug 12, 2024)
175. The CIA vs Fidel Castro (Wed, Aug 07, 2024)
174. The Cuban Revolution (Mon, Au 05, )(g 23:30:00 2024, -0000)
173. The Korean War: Dividing the Peninsula (Wed, Jul 31, 2024)
172. The Birth of North Korea (Mon, Jul 29, 2024)
171. The Bengal Famine: Chaos in Calcutta (Wed, Jul 24, 2024)
170. The Bengal Famine: A Disaster on the Horizon (Mon, Jul 22, 2024)
169. Freedom Fighters Betrayed: Colonising the Philippines (Wed, Jul 17, 2024)
168. Teddy Roosevelt Takes on the Old World (Mon, Jul 15, 2024)
167. Paradise Lost: The Taking of Hawaii (Wed, Jul 10, 2024)
166. How To Hide An Empire (Mon, Jul 08, 2024)
165. A Massacre at Dawn (Wed, Jul 03, 2024)
164. How the West was Won: The Truth Behind the Westerns (Mon, Jul 01, 2024)
163. The Tattooed Girl: From Mormon to Native American (Wed, Jun 26, 2024)
162. The Oregon Trail & the Gold Rush (Mon, Jun 24, 2024)
161. The Trail of Tears (Wed, Jun 19, 2024)
160. Native Nations vs Thomas Jefferson (Mon, Jun 17, 2024)
159. The American Revolution: Building The New Rome (Ep 4) (Wed, Jun 12, 2024)
158. The American Revolution: Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of Happiness (Ep 3) (Mon, Jun 10, 2024)
157. The American Revolution: The Shot Heard Around the World (Ep 2) (Wed, Jun 05, 2024)
156. The American Revolution: No Taxation Without Representation (Ep 1) (Mon, Jun 03, 2024)
155. The Founding Fathers: Benjamin Franklin (Ep 5) (Thu, May 30, 2024)
154. The Founding Fathers: John Adams (Ep 4) (Wed, May 29, 2024)
153. The Founding Fathers: Alexander Hamilton (Ep 3) (Tue, May 28, 2024)
152. The Founding Fathers: Thomas Jefferson (Ep 2) (Mon, May 27, 2024)
151. The Founding Fathers: George Washington (Ep 1) (Wed, May 22, 2024)
150. Worlds Colliding: Seizing Settlers in New England (Mon, May 20, 2024)
149. Pocahontas: Kidnapped in Virginia (Wed, May 15, 2024)
148. America: The Empire of Liberty (Mon, May 13, 2024)
147. Queen Victoria: Empress of India (Ep 4) (Wed, May 08, 2024)
146. Queen Victoria: The Empire on Which the Sun Never Sets (Ep 3) (Mon, May 06, 2024)
145. Victoria & Albert (Ep 2) (Wed, May 01, 2024)
144. The Making of Queen Victoria (Ep 1) (Mon, Apr 29, 2024)
143. Isabella of Castile: The Spanish Inquisition, the Conquest of Granada, and Columbus (Wed, Apr 24, 2024)
142. Isabella of Castile: Uniting Spain (Mon, Apr 22, 2024)
141. Nur Jahan: The Most Powerful Mughal Woman (Wed, Apr 17, 2024)
140. Nur Jahan: The Light of the World (Mon, Apr 15, 2024)
139. Mrs Genghis Khan (Wed, Apr 10, 2024)
138. The Graceful Reed: Ruling the Islamic Empire (Mon, Apr 08, 2024)
137. Empress Theodora: Making Heaven on Earth (Wed, Apr 03, 2024)
136. Empress Theodora: From the Brothel to the Throne (Mon, Apr 01, 2024)
135. Helena: Queen of the World and Finder of the One True Cross (Thu, Mar 28, 2024)
134. Cleopatra: The Would-Be Empress of Rome (Tue, Mar 26, 2024)
133. Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile (Thu, Mar 21, 2024)
132. Journey to Nalanda and the Library of Jewels (Tue, Mar 19, 2024)
131. Buddhism Goes to China (Thu, Mar 14, 2024)
130. India meets Rome: Making the Image of the Buddha (Tue, Mar 12, 2024)
129. Ashoka: The Great Buddhist Emperor of India (Thu, Mar 07, 2024)
128. The Life of the Buddha (Tue, Mar 05, 2024)
127. Inventing Curry: The British Taste for India (Thu, Feb 29, 2024)
126. Punch & Chilli: The East India Company at the Table (Tue, Feb 27, 2024)
125. The Origin of the Houthis (Thu, Feb 22, 2024)
124. Saddam Hussein vs The Ayatollah (Tue, Feb 20, 2024)
123. Hezbollah: The Party of God (Thu, Feb 15, 2024)
122. Iran & Saudi Arabia: The Rivalry that Split the Islamic World (Tue, Feb 13, 2024)
121. The Fall of the Shah of Shahs (Thu, Feb 08, 2024)
120. The Iranian Revolution: The Rise of Ayatollah Khomeini (Tue, Feb 06, 2024)
119. The Last Shah (Thu, Feb 01, 2024)
118. Iran's First Revolution (Tue, Jan 30, 2024)
117. Nader Shah: The Sword of Persia (Thu, Jan 25, 2024)
116. Isfahan: The City of Dreams (Tue, Jan 23, 2024)
115. The Great Conversion: How Iran became Shia (Thu, Jan 18, 2024)
114. The Persian Renaissance (Tue, Jan 16, 2024)
113. Timur: Scourge of God (Thu, Jan 11, 2024)
112. Ferdowsi: How One Poet Saved Persian Civilisation (Tue, Jan 09, 2024)
111. Shackleton: The Hero of Antarctica (Thu, Jan 04, 2024)
110. Antarctica: The Continent that wouldn’t be Conquered (Tue, Jan 02, 2024)
109. The Endeavour: Into the Unknown (Thu, Dec 28, 2023)
108. The Endeavour & the Great Southern Continent (Tue, Dec 26, 2023)
107. China's Greatest Admiral: The Story of Zheng He (Tue, Dec 19, 2023)
106. The Rise of Islam (Thu, Dec 14, 2023)
105. The Last Great War of Antiquity (Tue, Dec 12, 2023)
104. How Persian Religion Changed the World (Thu, Dec 07, 2023)
103. Alexander the Great: Defeating Darius (Tue, Dec 05, 2023)
102. Alexander the Great: The Conquest of Persia (Thu, Nov 30, 2023)
101. Salamis: Athens’ Revenge (Tue, Nov 28, 2023)
100. Thermopylae: Xerxes, Leonidas, and the 300 (Thu, Nov 23, 2023)
99. Marathon and the Rise of Greece (Tue, Nov 21, 2023)
98. Darius the Great: Ruling from India to the Mediterranean (Thu, Nov 16, 2023)
97. Cyrus the Great: Building the First Superpower (Tue, Nov 14, 2023)
96. Empires of Iran (Thu, Nov 09, 2023)
95. The History of Putin's War (Tue, Nov 07, 2023)
Welcome to the Empire Club (Mon, Nov 06, 2023)
94. The Bloody History of Russia & Ukraine (Thu, Nov 02, 2023)
93. Murdering the Romanovs: The End of a Dynasty (Tue, Oct 31, 2023)
92. Killing Rasputin (Thu, Oct 26, 2023)
91. Lenin and The Rise of the Bolsheviks (Tue, Oct 24, 2023)
90. The Russian Revolution: Overthrowing the Tsar (Thu, Oct 19, 2023)
89. The Final Act of the Great Game (Tue, Oct 17, 2023)
88. The Russo-Japanese War: Asia Strikes Back (Thu, Oct 12, 2023)
87. Tolstoy: War and the Russian Empire (Tue, Oct 10, 2023)
86. Crushing the Khans: Russia Seizes the Centre of the World (Thu, Oct 05, 2023)
85. The Russian Conquest of America (Tue, Oct 03, 2023)
84. A Tale of Two Nurses: Seacole & Nightingale (Thu, Sep 28, 2023)
83. The Charge of the Light Brigade (Tue, Sep 26, 2023)
82. Crimea: The War on Repeat (Thu, Sep 21, 2023)
81. The Graveyard of Empires (Tue, Sep 19, 2023)
80. 1842: The Retreat from Kabul (Thu, Sep 14, 2023)
79. Invading Afghanistan: The Return of a King (Tue, Sep 12, 2023)
78. The Battle of the Spies (Thu, Sep 07, 2023)
77. The Great Game Begins (Tue, Sep 05, 2023)
76. The Empress & The General (Thu, Aug 31, 2023)
75. Catherine the Great: The Golden Age (Tue, Aug 29, 2023)
74. Peter the Great: The First Emperor (Thu, Aug 24, 2023)
73. Ivan the Terrible and the Founding of Russia (Tue, Aug 22, 2023)
72. The Russian Empire and the Great Game (Tue, Aug 15, 2023)
71. Nazis, reparations, and laws 'just for the English to see' (Thu, Aug 10, 2023)
70. The Haitian Revolution, Dutch royals, and what happened to the Caribs? (Tue, Aug 08, 2023)
69. A Reckoning with Slavery (Tue, Aug 01, 2023)
68. The Long Death of Slavery (Tue, Jul 25, 2023)
67. Slavery's Demise (Thu, Jul 20, 2023)
66. Wilberforce and the Fight for Freedom (Tue, Jul 18, 2023)
65. When the Enslaved Took on Napoleon (Thu, Jul 13, 2023)
64. The Black Spartacus (Tue, Jul 11, 2023)
63. Creating Sierra Leone: The Land of the Free (Thu, Jul 06, 2023)
62. When Slaves Fought for the British Empire (Tue, Jul 04, 2023)
61. The Black Abolitionist (Thu, Jun 29, 2023)
60. Britain's Most Famous Slave (Tue, Jun 27, 2023)
59. Francis Barber: Abolition, the Navy, and the Enlightenment (Wed, Jun 21, 2023)
58. Dr Johnson's Black Heir (Tue, Jun 20, 2023)
57. Tacky's Revolt: An Atlantic Slave War (Thu, Jun 15, 2023)
56. Tacky's Revolt: Causes of the Rebellion (Tue, Jun 13, 2023)
55. The Fall of the Royal African Company (Thu, Jun 08, 2023)
54. Royal African Company: Slavery Inc (Tue, Jun 06, 2023)
53. Barbary Corsairs: Raiding the British isles (Tue, May 30, 2023)
52. The Slave who Ruled (Tue, May 23, 2023)
51. Vikings: Slavs to Slaves (Tue, May 16, 2023)
50. Rome: A Slave Society (Tue, May 09, 2023)
49. The Dawn of Everything (Thu, May 04, 2023)
48. The History of Slavery (Tue, May 02, 2023)
47. Rebels Against the Raj (Thu, Apr 27, 2023)
46. The Mau Mau, the court case, and the hidden documents (Tue, Apr 25, 2023)
45. Successors to the Romans, progressive harems, and living Ottomans (Thu, Apr 20, 2023)
44. The Legacy of the Ottomans, Queen of the Desert, and giant turbans (Tue, Apr 18, 2023)
43. The Birth of Saudi Arabia (Tue, Apr 11, 2023)
42. The Fiery End of the Ottoman Empire (Thu, Apr 06, 2023)
41. The Rise of Ataturk (Tue, Apr 04, 2023)
40. Origins of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (Tue, Mar 28, 2023)
39. Lawrence of Arabia and the Arab Revolt (Tue, Mar 21, 2023)
38. Sykes-Picot: Carving up the Middle-East (Tue, Mar 14, 2023)
37. The Armenian Genocide: Death Marches (Thu, Mar 09, 2023)
36. The Armenian Genocide: Road to the Deportations (Tue, Mar 07, 2023)
35. Gallipoli: Death at the Cliff Edge (Tue, Feb 28, 2023)
34. The Sick Man of Europe (Tue, Feb 21, 2023)
33. Lady Mary: Our Woman in Constantinople (Tue, Feb 14, 2023)
32. The Greatest Ottoman Adventurer (Tue, Feb 07, 2023)
31. Conquering the Night: The History of Coffee (Tue, Jan 31, 2023)
30. Sultanas to Slaves: Voices from the Harem (Tue, Jan 24, 2023)
29. The Tudors and the Turks (Tue, Jan 17, 2023)
28. The Battle of Lepanto (Thu, Jan 12, 2023)
27. The Siege of Cyprus (Tue, Jan 10, 2023)
26. Suspicion and Sorrow in Suleiman's Court (Tue, Jan 03, 2023)
25. Suleiman the Magnificent (Tue, Dec 27, 2022)
24. The Fall of Constantinople (Tue, Dec 20, 2022)
23. The First of the Ottomans (Tue, Dec 13, 2022)
22. Byzantium and the Rise of the Turks (Tue, Dec 13, 2022)
21. The Ottoman Empire (Tue, Dec 13, 2022)
20. Nationhood, the Indian constitution, and the railways (Thu, Dec 01, 2022)
19. Federal India, indentured labour, and naked yogis (Tue, Nov 29, 2022)
18. The Empire Implodes (Tue, Nov 22, 2022)
17. Rishi Sunak's Ancestry: Indians in East Africa (Tue, Nov 15, 2022)
16. Partition (Tue, Nov 08, 2022)
15. The Last Viceroy of India (Tue, Nov 01, 2022)
14. Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Tue, Oct 25, 2022)
13. The Patient Assassin (Tue, Oct 18, 2022)
12. Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary (Tue, Oct 11, 2022)
11. Queens and the Koh-i-Noor (Thu, Oct 06, 2022)
10. Killing for the Koh-i-Noor (Tue, Oct 04, 2022)
9. The Curse of the Koh-i-Noor (Thu, Sep 29, 2022)
8. The Koh-i-Noor Diamond (Tue, Sep 27, 2022)
7. Mahatma Gandhi (Tue, Sep 20, 2022)
6. Queen Elizabeth II & Empire (Tue, Sep 13, 2022)
5. The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre (Tue, Sep 06, 2022)
4. Between Two Massacres: 1857-1919 (Tue, Aug 30, 2022)
3. Mutiny, Uprising, and Rebellion (Tue, Aug 23, 2022)
2. Company Rule in India (Tue, Aug 16, 2022)
1. The East India Company (Tue, Aug 16, 2022)
Trailer (Fri, Aug 12, 2022)