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Take a deep dive into History’s biggest moments with Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook. Explore the stories of History’s most brutal rulers, deadly battles, and world-changing events.

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King Arthur: The Mysteries of Merlin (Part 3)

October 18, 2026

Tom Holland (0:03)

This episode is supported by Anthropic, the team behind Claude. Now history's biggest leaps started as hard questions that people didn't want asked.

Dominic Sandbrook (0:14)

Yeah, there's a classic example of that at the end of the 15th century. And the hard question in particular was, what is out there beyond the Atlantic Ocean to the West? And as you will know, the man who found the answer to that question was the explorer Christopher Columbus. And he realizes, or rather everybody…

Tom Holland (0:45)

So they asked over 100,000 people. And what came back wasn't just fear, there was hope as well. People wanted to know, will cancer ever be cured? Can kids have a better future? It turns out that there is hope in hard questions.

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