History's Toughest Heroes: Trailer

History's Heroes

BBC

Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.8 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Ray Winstone tells stories of adventurers, rebels and survivors who lived life on the edge. Ten tales of fearsome heroes from across history including arctic explorers, medieval knights and Hollywood stuntwomen.

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:05.6	Your time starts now.
0:07.2	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast.
0:09.4	Absolutely right.
0:11.5	So, you might like to know that the BBC makes loads of other podcasts.
0:15.6	Really?
0:16.4	Wow.
0:17.2	Many of them are very funny.
0:19.1	Which I think means...
0:20.3	A hatful of ha-hars. And energy. Even if you do say so ourselves. I agree 100% of that. Find them all on BBC Sounds. Just tell us a joke. Come on. Tell us a joke. Tell us a joke. Come on, tell us a joke. Just search comedy on BBC Sounds. I'm really looking forward to getting stuck in. I'm Ray Winstone, and for BBC Radio 4, this is history's toughest heroes.
0:43.1	When you're in the wilderness, they don't care who your mom and daddy was, how much money they had.
0:48.3	We're all going to get treated equal.
0:50.6	You're going to be cold, you're going to be hot, you're going to be hungry.
0:54.3	You're going to have to learn to deal with it on your own terms.
0:58.3	Buckle up for wild stories of daredevils.
1:02.2	She was sort of regarded as the greatest Hollywood stunt woman who ever lived.
1:07.1	An Arctic explorers.
1:08.9	And when he wakes too, he realizes he's been frozen in place.
1:11.6	Suffragettes.
1:12.6	We've tried persuasion, and now what we're going to do is we're going to cause such a fuss.
1:16.6	The medieval bloats on Allsback.
1:19.6	He's even described as having a large crotch, which everybody laughs at today.
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