Author Rory MacLean was present when the Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989. He talks about the jubilation of the East Berliners, as well as what ...
Watch NowProfessor of Modern History David Andress talks Dan through the French Revolution: the causes, the context, its significance and its wide-felt consequences.
Watch NowIn this interview (filmed in the summer of 2018) Wing Commander Tom Neil, one of the last of 'The Few' and an RAF fighter ace, talks ...
Watch NowLegend of popular history Mike Loades provides Dan a detailed run down of Henry V's famous victory at Agincourt on 25 October 1415 and how Henry V's ...
Watch NowThe Battle of Brunanburh was one of the bloodiest and biggest battles of early medieval history. No physical evidence exists of where it was fought. ...
Watch NowOn 21 October 1805 the British Royal Navy defeated the combined battle fleets of the French and Spanish empires 20 miles northwest of a promontory of rock and ...
Watch NowCharles Moore discusses the legacy of Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady
Watch NowBritish deception before D-Day was such that it tricked the Germans into concentrating their forces around the Pas-de-Calais, rather than near the beaches of Normandy.
Watch NowVictor Gregg retells his traumatic experience of the Second World War and how it has shaped the rest of his life.
Watch NowThomas Penn talks Dan through the rise, zenith and fall of the House of York during the latter half of the 15th century.
Watch Now11th November, 2019
Gary Lineker's grandfather was one of the 'D-Day Dodgers': men who fought in the Italian campaign, who were accused of missing the supposedly harder fighting ...
Listen Now10th November, 2019
Dan talks to Richard van Emden about his new book - Missing: The Need for Closure After the Great War. The backbone of the book ...
Listen Now9th November, 2019
The 9th November 1989 was one of the most significant dates in 20th century history. The Berlin Wall fell, changing the entire geopolitical situation and marking ...
Listen Now7th November, 2019
Dan chats to Tim Mohr, a Club DJ turned writer, who has a very different story of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Tim talks ...
Listen Now5th November, 2019
British military historian Mark Simner tackles the Opium Wars, rarely taught in English schools, but taught ubiquitously in China. He explains the provenance of both ...
Listen Now3rd November, 2019
David Andress delves into the French Revolution, explaining its causes, its outcomes, and how we should look at its historical legacy. For ad free versions ...
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The cleverest man in Britain weighs in on the state of our politics and the state of the British electoral system. Lord Sumption was a ...
Listen Now29th October, 2019
Adam Frankel worked in the Obama white house as a speech writer. His grandparents were holocaust survivors from eastern Europe. His mother had profound mental ...
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Mike Loades is a world leading expert on archery. He has shot traditional bows from Japan to Wales. His knowledge on the English and Welsh ...
Listen Now23rd October, 2019
Michael Stephens is a Research fellow at RUSI and an expert in the history of the Kurds and Kurdistan. He explains who, what and where ...
Listen Now22nd October, 2019
The Battle of Brunanburh is one of the most important battles in British history. It was fought in 937 between Æthelstan, King of England, and an ...
Listen Now21st October, 2019
Andrew Baines is the curator of HMS victory. First released on the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar this podcast tells the story of that ...
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