Live stream preview

Watch this video and more on History Hit

Watch this video and more on History Hit

Up Next in 🎧 Patented: History of Inventions

  • 🎧 FORENSICS: Fingerprinting

    We take you to London’s most inaccessible museum, the Met police’s Crime Museum, and back to India in the time of the British Raj. We hear about the first murder case ever to hinge on fingerprint evidence.

    No one had to invent fingerprints. They’ve been around for ages…But to be able to use fing...

  • 🎧 Perfume

    First Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel shocked the world’s eyeballs with her fashion designs. Then she shocked its nostrils with a new smell - Chanel No. 5.

    “It’s punk rock but with feather boas and fragrance”. That’s how today’s guest, Suzy Nightingale, describes the impact that Coco Chanel had on soci...

  • 🎧 FORENSICS: the beginning

    Death by tiger bites. Death by prodding. Death from sexual excess. Deaths from over-eating and over-drinking. The opening of graves.

    These are a few of the chapter headings in a 13th century Chinese book called ‘The Washing Away of Wrongs’. It is a compendium of grizzly, gory, bizarre murders an...