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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This is Swimming with Sharks – the new podcast from Sale Sharks presented by Mark Chapman. Each month Mark will be joined by some of the leading lights from inside Carrington – on the men’s and women’s side – as well as big hitters from some of the north’s biggest sporting organisations to get the insight on what makes a good leader, how to build a winning culture, nutrition, strength and conditioning ands so much more. This is the podcast that takes you behind the scenes to show you why Sal ...
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The Business of Sport: with Claire Butters, Daniel Gidney and Chris Bailey
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In this episode of Swimming with Sharks we're exploring the business of sport. When does a professional sports club become a business? And how do you make clubs across all sports commercially viable so they grow off as well as on the pitch? To discuss this and plenty more, host Mark Chapman is joined by Sale Sharks' Sales and Marketing Director Cla…
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Life After Sport: with Will Cliff and Christian Day
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In this episode of Swimming with Sharks it's all about the next steps, and life after sport. What happens when a career in top level sport is over and how tough is it for sports men and women to adjust to the 'real world' and a 'proper' job - both physically and mentally? Host Mark Chapman chats to Sharks favourite Will Cliff who has hung up his bo…
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The Next Generation: with Ferg Mulchrone, Ian Jones and James Harper
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In this episode of Swimming with Sharks it's all about developing the next generation of sporting superstars as we explore talent ID, pathways and what sports can learn from each other. Host Mark Chapman chats to Sharks Academy Manager Ferg Mulchrone, Burnley Football Club's Head of Coaching Ian Jones, and Sharks prop James Harper, who came through…
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Women's sport: with Rachel Taylor, Stacey Copeland and Gavin Makel
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We're talking about women's sport in this special International Women's Day episode of Swimming with Sharks. Host Mark Chapman chats to Sharks' Women's Performance Lead, Rachel Taylor; Stacey Copeland, who represented England at both football and boxing, playing in an FA Cup final and winning a Commonwealth title in the ring; and Gavin Makel, the M…
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Leadership: with Tom Curry and Alex Sanderson
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Episode one of Swimming with Sharks is all about leadership and culture as host Mark Chapman chats to Sharks Director of Rugby Alex Sanderson and England and Sale flanker Tom Curry, who became the youngest man to captain England since 1988 when he led the team against Scotland last year. Mark, Alex and Tom explore what makes a good leader on and of…
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This is Swimming with Sharks – the new podcast from Sale Sharks presented by Mark Chapman. This is the podcast that takes you behind the scenes to show you why Sale Sharks is so much more than just a rugby club.By Sale Sharks
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Opening the iron curtain - the East Germany's day of dissent
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Send us a text 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; and - free elections. Instead, they would get: - Trabants;…
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Operation Unthinkable - Churchill's plan to attack Russia and start a Third World War
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Send us a text 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, inconceivable and incredibly risky. So, fittingly…
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Louis of England - history’s forgotten King of England
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Send us a text 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 France. Louis is overlooked in most lists of English…
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Send us a text 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, as the pressure on her to conform grew, she turned to her …
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Cancelling Christmas and the Plum Pudding Riots
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Send us a text 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 the Civil War. With Parliamentary armies fighting in Wa…
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The Prince of Poyais - settling in the country that never was
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Send us a text 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 sure bet, a land of milk and honey - another paradise…
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A wonderful paradise on the Isthmus of Panama
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Send us a text 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. It would create an overland route to connect the A…
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Roosevelt's third term and the voice from the sewers
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Send us a text 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 the country guessing right up until the Democratic National Co…
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The British Hindenberg disaster and the demise of Imperial Airships
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Send us a text 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 measured in months would breeze past in days. The Imperi…
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Hitler’s dreams to unify his empire with a monstrous railway
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Send us a text 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 Building would hurtle across the Greater German Reich, fro…
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Draining the swamp - Garibaldi's plan to diver Rome's river
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Send us a text 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 target was the River Tiber. Garibaldi would solve problems from pollution to flooding by diverting the river and completely removing it from the city. Where …
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Achtung! Achtung! Dystopian adventures with Nazi TV
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Send us a text 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 Hitler. His voice echoes in your head, broadcast from a thousand loudspeakers. His wild, gesticulating speech is reaching its foam speckled crescendo. Nazi televi…
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