Stuff the British Stole

For years, visitors to the British Museum have been puzzled by an exhibit: a sphinx that looks almost identical to those from Egypt. Marc Fennell discovers the wild story of theft and the secrets of a breathtaking island.

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.

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.

Imagine lying on your deathbed, knowing that doctors can't wait to dissect your body. That is how the tallest man from Ireland ended his short life. Marc Fennell unpicks the twisting story of Charles Byrne, the Irish Giant.

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.

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?

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?

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.