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Concorde: Sonic Boom and Bust | The Supersonic Race | 2 Sep 19, 2024

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The supersonic race heats up in the 1960s. As Britain and France scramble to solidify their design for Concorde, the United States of America and the Soviet Union are close on their heels.

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Concorde: Sonic Boom and Bust | The Long Runway | 1 Sep 12, 2024

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In the 1950s, facing humiliation after the Suez Crisis, Britain sets out to prove that it can still be a global superpower by creating the world’s first supersonic passenger jet.

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In The Red: Liverpool FC | Golden Sky | 1 Aug 08, 2024

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The owner of the world-famous soccer team, Liverpool FC, goes hunting for new investment.

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Conrad Hilton’s Staying Power | Mi Casa Es Su Casa | 1 Jul 04, 2024

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Future hotelier and entrepreneur Conrad Hilton learns two key lessons from his parents as he struggles to work out what he wants to do with his life.

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Leveling Up Nintendo | Author Jeff Ryan On The Nintendo Way To Play | 5 Jun 27, 2024

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Author Jeff Ryan discusses the rise of Nintendo in America, and how the video game company has changed - and stayed the same - in the two decades since the departure of Minoru Arakawa.

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Leveling Up Nintendo | Jumpman | 1 May 30, 2024

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Nintendo launches an American subsidiary, but the company struggles until it releases an innovative platform game that introduces the world to an iconic new hero.

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Steering Cunard Off the Rocks | Full Head of Steam | 1 Apr 25, 2024

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In the 19th Century, Samuel Cunard wins a contract to deliver mail from Britain to North America by steamship - a new technology that will make transatlantic travel faster than ever before. His company goes on to become the Cunard Line. It will carry millions of immigrants to the new world, serve in two world wars, and dominate the transatlantic passenger business - until another new technology emerges to threaten the illustrious company’s future.

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Henry Ford’s Paradise Lost | A Man and His Machine | 1 Mar 21, 2024

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Industrialist Henry Ford looks for a new way to supply his factories with rubber without having to pay the prices dictated by the global market. But his decision to build a rubber plantation deep in the Amazon Rainforest comes with a great many complications.

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Pepsi: Doing Good Business | Special Markets | 1 Feb 15, 2024

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In 1940, Pepsi President Walter Mack makes headlines by hiring a team of Black salesmen to target African American customers in a new “special markets” division. The pioneering sales team ventures into the Jim Crow south, where they build Pepsi’s brand loyalty among the Black community, despite the challenges of rampant segregation.

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Hatching Penguin | Paperback Pioneer | 1 Jan 11, 2024

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To save the publishing company he inherited from his uncle, British publisher Allen Lane launches a radical new line of paperback books – but finds it’s a tall order to get a resistant industry to embrace the new business.

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