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History Cafe

History Cafe

Auteur(s): Jon Rosebank Penelope Middelboe
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True history storytelling at the History Café. Join BBC Historian Jon Rosebank & HBO, BBC & C4 script and series editor Penelope Middelboe as we give history a new take. Drop in to the History Café weekly on Wednesdays to give old stories a refreshing new brew. 90+ ever-green stand-alone episodes and building...

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  • #130 'The real mystery of 1492' - Ep 7 Columbus - legend and loser

    #130 'The real mystery of 1492' - Ep 7 Columbus - legend and loser
    Sep 9 2026
    European sailors in Columbus’s time had only rudimentary instruments, with no means of measuring longitude, and only a vague idea of how far north-south they were. So how on earth did they find the island of Hispaniola, over and over again, after weeks out of sight of land? There are some outlandish theories...

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    33 min
  • #129 ‘It’s a joke’ - Ep 6 Columbus - legend and loser

    #129 ‘It’s a joke’ - Ep 6 Columbus - legend and loser
    Aug 26 2026
    Columbus may now be dressing up like a friar and searching for the Garden of Eden but he and his brother are still cutting off the Arawaks’ hands if they fail to deliver a monthly quantity of gold. Horrified, Ferdinand and Isabella send a judge to bring the Admiral of the Ocean Sea and his family, home in chains.

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    34 min
  • #128 No more Mr Nice Guy - Ep 5 Columbus - legend and loser

    #128 No more Mr Nice Guy - Ep 5 Columbus - legend and loser
    Aug 19 2026
    When Columbus’s second voyage - the showy Armada of 1493 - reaches Hispaniola they find that the Arawak, including the chief who rescued Columbus from the shipwrecked Santa Maria on Christmas Eve 1492, have had enough. The avaricious, raping crew left behind at fort Navidad are now a pile of bleached bones.

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    39 min
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