The History Podcast
BBC Radio 4 Zur Website › History · EN · 142 Folgen · zuletzt 09.11.2026
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An unlikely gang of mavericks decide enough is enough. Their protest against the pitying portrayal of disabled people explodes into something much bigger. They don’t ask politely. They aren’t “inspirational” in the way…
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In the concluding chapter of How Houdini Made Magic, Derren Brown explores how even in death, Houdini knew how to ensure his legend would endure.The legendary death-defier would eventually fall, not to a locked water…
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World War I and the Spanish Flu caused devastation. Estimates are that up to 120 million people died as a result of both in 6 years - many of them relatively young. It led to the revival of an already popular new…
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During the filming of the 1919 film, The Grim Game, there was a real-life mid-air plane crash. The star of the movie was the greatest escape artist of all time: Harry Houdini. So how did the producers capitalise on the…
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“It was the making of Houdini”. That’s how one magician described Houdini’s dramatic “Mirror Handcuff escape”. In London’s Hippodrome, in 1904, Houdini wowed the 4000 gripped audience members as he broke free from…
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Documentary evidence shows that when Harry Houdini first arrived in the UK, he struck up a friendship, of sorts, with a man who would go on to pioneer British espionage. A man who would go on to be the inspiration for…
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When an authoritarian empire threatens to brand you a fraud and destroy your legacy, how do you fight back?Derren Brown explores the high-stakes legal battles that helped cement Houdini’s European triumph.Arriving in a…
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Houdini had made it big in America. At the very start of the 20th century, however, the pinnacle for performers was not the fledgling States, but Europe. So Houdini boarded a ship to London, where he learned how to make…
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Houdini almost gave up on the act that would make him a star: the handcuff escape. But with his wife’s encouragement, he persisted. And it paid off. Join Derren Brown as we learn how Houdini went from a sideshow hustler…
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In the late 19th Century, a young Hungarian immigrant called Eric Weisz chose magic as the means to provide for his ageing mother. He found inspiration in the form of a memoir, and his identity morphed: young Eric…
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