Crosshairs

Cruel, insane and bloodthirsty are all adjectives that could be applied to Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, better known by his nickname Caligula, the third emperor of Rome. His reign was marked by …

In 1965 Malcolm X found himself at something of a crossroads. The prominent civil rights activist, famed for his incendiary oratory prowess, was trying to start a new political movement whilst engage…

You don’t get a nickname like the Butcher of Prague without earning it and Reinhard Heydrich, one of the highest ranking officers in the Nazi party, had certainly done that. Arriving in the occupied …

By 2009, George Tiller had become one of the most hated men in America. Between the never ending stream of protestors outside his clinic and the near nightly attacks on his character on Fox News the …

In 1973 the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v Wade judgement makes abortion legal in the United States. Its a practice that has considerable controversy attached to it but Dr George Tiller firmly believ…

Abraham Lincoln wasn’t a man who cared to draw attention to himself, which is difficult when you’re six foot foot four and the president of the United States. On the night of April 14th, 1865 Lincoln…

If you’re an Irish gangster in the 1990’s the last thing you wanted, apart from seeing the inside of a jail cell, is for Veronica Guerin to be writing about you. Through her dogged investigating and …

Politics is a dirty business. Bringing about change requires fighting tooth and nail and that can make you enemies, something Harvey Milk, San Francisco Supervisor and America’s first openly gay poli…

Its 1793 and the French Revolution is in full swing. Famed political journalist Jean-Paul Marat, a voice for those who want rid of the excesses of the monarchy, is taking a meeting in his bathroom. H…

John Lennon knows a thing or two about obsessive fandom. Ten years after the breakup of The Beatles, the famed musician from Liverpool has to run the gauntlet of Fab Four devotees camped outside his …

With a pull of a trigger, or the flash of a blade, the course of history can change forever.

In this brand new series, narrated by Jonathan Guy Lewis, you can hear the stories of assassinations throug…