Stuff the British Stole

Marc spills the tea on the dark truth behind the world's most beloved beverage. Sipped by millions every day, tea's story is one of spies, espionage and the world's largest drug cartel.

Stephen Fry joins Marc Fennell on a gripping adventure from the pinnacle of the Acropolis to a secluded robotics lab high in the Tuscan mountains to a shipwreck under the Aegean Sea.

Marc Fennell travels to the Pyramids of Giza, down the Nile and to the very heart of the British Empire to uncover the truth of how the ancient Egyptian mummified remains of a child ended up in Australia's oldest university.

Marc Fennell delves into South Africa's first diamond mine and the opulent realms of London to uncover the intriguing tale of how the largest gem-quality diamond ultimately reached the hands of the British Royal family.

In 2022, a tattered black doll was sent from Britain to the First Nations people of lutruwita/Tasmania, carrying with it a devastating story of a stolen child. Marc Fennell unravels a story of heartbreak and injustice.

Marc Fennell unpicks the twisting history of Charles Byrne, the Irish Giant. It is a story of betrayal, exploitation, and the brutal reality of the medical industry.

From the bustling streets of Nairobi to a secluded royal retreat in the Kenyan mountains, Marc Fennell is on the hunt for secret documents that reveal a brutal history of war and a crumbling empire.

Look around you. Rubber is everywhere now, but it wasn't always this way. Marc Fennell takes you deep into the Amazon jungle to unravel an elaborate botanical heist that changed the world.

Marc Fennell takes us to Egypt, a remote Canadian island and London in his quest to unravel the mystery of a sphinx located in the British Museum that looks almost identical to those from Egypt, except it's not from Egypt.

Marc Fennell unravels the true history of the Koh I Noor diamond which sits at the heart of the Crown Jewels. But beyond the glitz, he reveals the tragedy of a 10-year-old Sikh boy ripped from his mother and kingdom.

When King Charles III has his Coronation, will he sit on a potent and sacred symbol of the Scottish people? Marc Fennell investigates a wild Scottish heist to steal back an object - quite literally - from the British throne.

Marc Fennell is on a scavenger hunt for pieces of a mysterious, ancient Palestinian Mosaic, when put together, reveals how the British Empire shaped the modern Middle East.

In a mystery binding together China, UK & Australia, British colonial forces took a golden warrior statue following an epic rebellion by Chinese martial artists. But how did it end up in a prestigious Australian building?

Crowfoot, a Chief of Blackfoot nation, negotiated one of the most controversial treaties in Canadian history and his personal regalia ended up in a British museum. Did colonial forces literally steal the shirt from his back?

For well over a century the remains of Yagan, an Indigenous Noongar warrior from WA, were missing in the UK. The search for Yagan and the fight to bring him home is one of history's wildest detective stories.