An open-ocean voyage of 800 miles, across the worst seas in the world, with almost no shelter and the lives of dozens of men depending on it; "when all has gone to hell you'd better get down on your knees, and pray for Shackleton".

For all those others in the Heroic Age who made great strides in the fields of science, and whose stories of adversity are rivalled only by legends of Greek heroes, one stands tall above them all. An Australian who was seemingly made of titanium, whose re

It's come to this - a final race to decide, once and for all, the man who'll go down in the history books. In the end though, there can be only one... or is that too simplistic?

What was almost a false-start has now begun a race, the prize being a place in the history books; today we look at three record breakers, and the trends they set going forwards. Things will go south very quickly...

This season, we take a look at the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, starting with an expedition you've never heard of from one of the last places you'd expect...

Today we take a look at the Spanish Civil War, and have a chat with Ruta Sepetys about historical fiction.

Korea has some major cult scandals that put places like the United States to Shame: for the final time on this season of Demystified let's do it once more, with Seoul...

Things are easy when you're big in Japan; today's story of a cult from the 1990's puts that lyric into interesting relief...

Home, home on the range - where 'never is heard a discouraging word'; we'll see about that...

Season 3 continues with an infamous, and sadly relevant, cult - drinking the Koolaid is still the fashion, it seems...