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Operation Mincemeat: how a dead man, a forged briefcase and a whisper campaign convinced Nazi intelligence the Allies wo...

The story of Simon, the ship's cat of HMS Amethyst, whose miraculous survival under fire lifted the crew's shattered mor...

A cat, a bear, a football match: the small things that shape a nation's morale in wartime. This is not a game — it is fu...

Sgt. Bill the goat, Siwash the duck, Reckless the mare, Nemo the dog: animals decorated for saving soldiers, while the h...

Sophia the humanoid robot sparked panic about machines taking over the world. Part one traces automata from the Pharaohs...

Leonardo da Vinci drew helicopters, tanks, ball bearings and a mechanical knight centuries ahead of his time. Part two f...

Asimov's three laws of robotics, and whether they are fact or fiction. Part three explores the long history of artificia...

Sophia the humanoid robot, robotic surgeons, nano-robots and killer drone swarms: how AI reshapes medicine and war, and...

The penultimate episode: Sophia, Elon Musk, Atlas and Google, Michio Kaku on when machines might "wake up", quantum comp...

The final episode: building two simple robots by hand, one basic and one voice-controlled, open-source designs, and how...

From the Battle of Pelusium in 525 BC to the Mongol terror and Qutuz's counter-strike, the war of minds is as old as war...

How a secret society in Serbia recruited a lost young man named Gavrilo Princip and set off a world war that killed 70 m...