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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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English
United States
12 episodes
since April 6, 2017
episodic
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It’s the summer of 1953, and, across East Germany, angry people take to the streets.
This isn’t a polite street protest.
This is a furious, red flag ripping, police beating, office burning rampage.
The crowds demand:
- better living conditions;
- the reunification of Germany; an…
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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 rip up the rule book and plan for an attack on their wartime ally, Russia.
It was audacious…
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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 pride and hope of his dynasty.
His name was Louis and he was the eldest son of the King of…
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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 increasingly Protestant regime. Mary clung to her mother's Catholicism.
She feared for her life and, a…
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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.
The city’s Plum Pudding Riots led to a royalist revolt throughout Kent and the second round of th…
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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 Scottish, put forward vast sums towards creating a colony in central America. They were told it was a su…
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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 the Stuart crown.
The colony was to straddle the Isthmus of Panama at the Gulf of Darién…
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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 Times proclaimed it as 'the all-absorbing political riddle'.
Roosevelt kept …
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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 bound for Montreal, Cairo, Karachi, Singapore and Sydney.
Journeys that had once been meas…
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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 been seen.
Trains the height and width of a suburban house and the length of the Empire State Buildi…
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