Martin Sixsmith

Martin Sixsmith chronicles Russia's history in 50 episodes, covering the Mongol hordes invading in the 13th century, through the iron autocratic fists of successive tsars....

Mikhail Khodorkovsky has seen behind the mask of Vladimir Putin. Once an oil tycoon and the richest man in Russia, Khodorkovsky spoke out against the corruption of Putin's regime—and was punished by the Kremlin, stripped of his entire wealth and jailed for more than 10 years....

Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. Putin and the Return of History examines difficult questions in the context of Russia’s thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Vladimir Putin’s politics of aggression....

Falling pregnant as a teenager in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to the convent in Co. Tipperary to be looked after as a fallen woman....