The Worst Historical Films: Top Movie Turkeys
Tony McMahon looks at the history movie turkeys that made a complete mess of depicting the past either through miscasting or a host of other sins
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Medieval buildings bombed in World War Two
This VE Day we remember the millions who lost their lives in World War Two and I look at the medieval buildings that were destroyed in the Blitz
Rob Riggle Global Investigator!
Rob Riggle Global Investigator is a new Discovery TV series including a search for the Holy Grail with Templar expert Tony McMahon
Covid today – Tuberculosis yesterday
Covid 19 is the new virus threatening our way of life but in the past, tuberculosis had a very similar impact on society as Tony McMahon discovers
Conspiracy theories promoted in Hollywood movies – we investigate!
Tony McMahon looks at Hollywood movies that promote conspiracy theories from the moon landings to the assassination of JFK
Filming for Strange Evidence – Discovery Science channel
Last Friday, I was filming for the next series of Strange Evidence which will be broadcast on Discovery Science in 2020. In case you missed the last series of Strange Evidence – we look at filmed material of bizarre phenomena and test out several theories as to what is happening. Then I reveal the most…
The Shroud of Turin – genuine or fake?
Tony McMahon investigates the Turin Shroud to see how science and faith have clashed over its authenticity and whether it really is the burial cloth of Jesus
Galvanism – Frankenstein science and the dead!
In the early 19th century a criminal was brought back to life using Galvanic methods – the use of electricity that inspired the novel, Frankenstein
The London of the The Frankenstein Chronicles
Historian Tony McMahon investigates the London of The Frankenstein Chronicles
Homosexuality and the abuse of psychology
Psychology is a relatively news science and in its first decades was very hostile to homosexuality as Tony McMahon discovers