The fourth season of our hugely popular Forbidden History series sees Jamie Theakston set off once more in search of history’s more controversial stories. This time, Jamie tries to get to the bottom of mysteries surrounding Hitler, Mussolini, the Vatican, the ‘Murder Bureau, the Knights Templar and Mary Magdalene.
The KKK, The Priory of Sion, The Order Of Assassins… the names might be familiar but who are they? What are they? What are their beliefs and aims?
This brand new series explores some of the most secretive and dangerous global underworld societies and their counter-culture dogmas. It’s a murky, mysterious mixture of sectarian cults, fanatical religious groups, esoteric societies and political militants - all of them seeking to shape and influence the world we know today.
This a shadowy realm of clandestine meetings, power plays, initiations, violence, and intimidation; all held together by blood ties, oaths of allegiance and above all - secrecy.
Like it or not, warfare, conflict and the need to explore the unknown is the catalyst for human progress in technology. The fact is that mankind is at it's most inventive when it's being destructive.
It’s the same with the field of space exploration. The desire of the superpowers to dominate each other lead them to look to space to gain the upper hand. From that enormous effort and expenditure – all with military and political gain as its primary purpose – came a gamut of inventions we now use in our everday lives. This series of 30 half hour shows explores, explains and whole range of surprising gadgets, toys and implements that were originally made for a very different purpose.
FORBIDDEN HISTORY takes presenter Jamie Theakston to places far and wide as he searches for the answers to some of history’s greatest riddles – among them the resting place of the Ark of the Covenant, the identity of the Man in the Iron Mask and the real King Arthur . Along the way he encounters conspiracy theories, cover ups, strange phenomena, unexplained happenings and mysterious findings – in short, a whole host of unusual goings on that have had a massive bearing on how we view history today.
