Podcasts by Almost History
Almost History. Always incredible. What if ... ? Almost History tells the amazing true stories behind the aborted missions, cancelled plans, utopian dreams, failed revolutions and hubristic designs that didn't quite make it from the drawing board to change the real world. Rescued from the footnotes, archives and passing references, each episode explores what almost happened and explains why it didn't.
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AH 11 Operation Unthinkable - Churchill's plan to attack Russia and start a Third World War from 2017-06-15T04:00
According to Field Marshal Montgomery, rule number one on the first page of the book of war is ‘do not march on Moscow’.
In April 1945, Winston Churchill ordered the British Chiefs of Staff to r...
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AH 10 Louis of England - history’s forgotten King of England from 2017-06-01T04:00
In August of 1216, the King of Scotland rode down the entire length of England to pay homage to a new English king at Dover.
The Scottish monarch bent his knee to a warrior prince who was the...
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AH 09 Princess Mary Tudor's flight to freedom from 2017-05-18T04:00
In the summer of 1550, Princess Mary, the eldest daughter of Henry VIII, was packing her belongings and preparing to flee her home.
Her Tudor brother was the figurehead for an increasing...
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AH 08 Cancelling Christmas and the Plum Pudding Riots from 2017-05-11T04:00
In 1647, the new puritan government tried to cancel Christmas.
People in Canterbury protested in a peculiarly English way, with a destructive game of football followed by a mass brawl. ...
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AH 07 The Prince of Poyais - settling in the country that never was from 2017-05-05T04:00
In 1822, Gregor MacGregor committed what The Economist newspaper has called the ‘biggest fraud in history’ and ‘the greatest confidence trick of all time’.
Investors, many of them Scotti...
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AH 06 A wonderful paradise on the Isthmus of Panama from 2017-04-27T04:00
Towards the end of the seventeenth century, Scotland sank a huge chunk of its national wealth into an audacious scheme to colonise central America. become a more equal partner with England under th...
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AH 05 Roosevelt's third term and the voice from the sewers from 2017-04-21T04:00
In the first half of 1940 only one question mattered in American politics. Would Franklin D. Roosevelt break with tradition and run for a third term as President of the United States? The New York ...
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AH 04 The British Hindenberg disaster and the demise of Imperial Airships from 2017-04-13T04:00
Imperial Airships would bring the far flung peoples of the British Empire closer together than ever before. Every day, blimps would slip their masts near London carrying passengers and freight boun...
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AH 03 Hitler’s dreams to unify his empire with a monstrous railway from 2017-04-07T04:00
In 1941, Adolf Hitler issued orders to Nazi Germany’s railway officials. He wanted them to develop a new type of railway.
It was to be bigger, far bigger, than anything that had ever be...
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AH 01 Achtung! Achtung! Dystopian adventures with Nazi TV from 2017-04-06T04:00
What if …
... Nazi Germany had been able to roll out the television equivalent of its inescapable radio network?
Everywhere you turn, you see the unmistakable face of Ad...
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AH 02 Draining the swamp -Garibaldi's plan to diver Rome's river from 2017-04-06T04:00
In 1875, Rome came close to losing its river. In that year, the liberator of Italy, General Giuseppe Garibaldi, visited and announced plans to clean up the Eternal City.
His main targe...
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AH 01 Achtung! Achtung! Dystopian adventures with Nazi TV from 2017-04-06T04:00
What if …
... Nazi Germany had been able to roll out the television equivalent of its inescapable radio network?
Everywhere you turn, you see the unmistakable face of Adolf ...
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