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Summary: The story of the discovery and exploitation of the Baku Oilfields in the Russian Caucasus, which forced Stalin and Hitler to face-off in the battle of Stalingrad.

Episode 2: Fiat and the Fascists

Air Date: August 12nd, 2020

Summary: Fiat didn't just make cars: they made trains, they made planes, and like modern-day kingmakers, they made and broke governments too.

Episode 3: The People's Car

Air Date: August 19th, 2020

Summary: While America had Ford or Chrysler or Buick, Hitler also wanted a car that would transform his nation: the 'people's car' - a Volkswagen.

Episode 4: Apocalypse Factories

Air Date: August 26th, 2020

Summary: The incredible story of the arms race to create America's nuclear arms factories.

Episode 5: The Kamikaze Bullet

Air Date: September 2nd, 2020

Summary: Japan would create arguably the greatest fighter in WW2 - the Mitsubishi Zero. But their failed War Factories would ultimately reduce the Zero to a Kamikaze plane.

Episode 6: Dambuster Factory

Air Date: September 9th, 2020

Summary: How the Lancaster factory, one of the biggest buildings in Europe at the time, helped to create a truly war-winning weapon.

Episode 7: Colt & Kalashnikov

Air Date: September 16th, 2020

Summary: Long before Henry Ford, Samuel Colt was the true father of mass production. Ironically, it was the inadequacy of Soviet factory production which made the AK47 so effective.

Episode 8: The First Giants

Air Date: September 23rd, 2020

Summary: The First World War led to a number of astounding war factories, which laid the foundations and paved the way for modern factories of today.

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