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Season 1 – History: The Interesting Bits

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Fast-paced episodes using animation, archive and recon to reveal the funny, disturbing, weird, but always interesting bits of history.
History: The Interesting Bits — Season 1

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Alexander Armstrong

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Justin Pollard

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Hannah Moore

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Michell Chresfield

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Alexis Conran

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Mark Hindman Smith

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Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Oct 11, 2022 How to Be President A look at the men and women who've run and, in some cases, won the Oval Office. Details Episode 2 Aired Oct 18, 2022 How to Get Away with It A look at some of history's criminals, con artists, frauds and fakes, from Adam Worth, the 19th-century inspiration for Professor Moriarty, to a jewel thief named Diamond Doris and a count who sold the Eiffel Tower to gullible buyers twice. Details Episode 3 Aired Oct 3, 2022 How to Keep a Secret A look at espionage; meeting spies from Delilah to Roald Dahl and along the way revealing the real model for James Bond. Details Episode 4 Aired Sep 28, 2025 How to Wage a War Fast-paced episodes using animation, archive and recon to reveal the funny, disturbing, weird, but always interesting bits of history. Details Episode 4 Aired Sep 26, 2022 How to Start a War A look at wars that lasted for centuries and others that were over in minutes, as well as the difficulty of ending a war; the possibility of starting a war over almost anything, from an unprovoked invasion to a lost ear, a pastry or a stolen bucket. Details Episode 5 Aired Oct 31, 2022 How To Make A Fortune Throughout history, men and women have dedicated themselves to raking in wealth in the form of old money, new money and blood money; a look at how they got it, spent it and how it affected their happiness, from Robber Barons to Mansa Musa of Mali. Details Episode 6 Aired Nov 16, 2022 How To Fall In Love Exploring why, from Liz Taylor to Attila the Hun, pain doesn't stop people from looking for love; how love is a driver of history, costing royalty their heads, generals their victories, and many people their sanity. Details Episode 7 Aired Nov 7, 2022 How To Start A Revolution A look at industrial, sexual and political revolutions and how, despite pure motives, some still end up on the wrong side of history. Details Episode 8 Aired Oct 24, 2022 How to Be Inventive The modern world was created through invention, but great inventors build on earlier ideas or sometimes even steal them, and it's not always clear who first had the spark. Details
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Season Info

Executive Producer
John Cavanagh, Jonathan Drake, Steve Maher
Screenwriter
Justin Pollard
Network
National Geographic
Genre
Documentary, History
Original Language
British English
Release Date
Oct 11, 2022