History Hit Podcasts
History Hit has a wide variety of podcasts including Dan Snow’s History Hit, The Ancients, Gone Medieval, Not Just The Tudors, Betwixt The Sheets, American History Hit, After Dark, and Echoes of History.
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Theodore Roosevelt
28 April 2022Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 - January 6, 1919), was an American politician, conservationist and writer. After the assassination of...
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38:08
Suleyman the Magnificent
28 April 2022The Ottoman Sultan Suleyman I - known as "Suleyman the Magnificent" in the West - was the most feared and powerful man of the sixteenth century....
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44:54
Superfood Myths with Kate Quilton
28 April 2022Kale, Cod-liver oil, Goji-berries, Chia seeds...the list of so-called superfoods continues to grow. But how healthy are these wonder ingredients,...
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35:49
An Ancient Guide to Healthy Living
28 April 2022Poetry, parables, and produce - how did someone live a healthy life in the ancient Greco-Roman world? Tristan is joined by author Mark Usher to...
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24:18
War in Space
27 April 2022On November 15 2021 Russia tested an anti-satellite weapon, shattering one of their own satellites into over a thousand pieces. This space debris...
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27:12
John Simpson: Six Decades of Warzones
27 April 2022Over six decades John Simpson has been on the frontline of reporting bringing news from some of the most dangerous places on the planet to the...
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26:02
Wheeled Suitcase
27 April 2022We put man on the moon before we invented the wheeled suitcase.
Why did it take so long?
Find out in todays episode with...
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28:47
Gossip, Scandal and High Society
26 April 2022Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, Henry ‘Chips’ Channon documented British high society in eye-watering detail. His diaries...
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20:52
The Dynasty that Transformed Southern India
26 April 2022Histories of India usually concern themselves with events and invasions in the subcontinent’s North, while the rest of India’s rich story is...
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57:50
Boob Jobs
26 April 2022Who had the very first boob job? Why were women injecting liquid paraffin into their chests? And, how has the procedure developed over...
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32:28
Great Scientists We've Forgotten to Remember
25 April 2022We are told that modern science was invented in Europe, the product of great minds like Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and...
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28:00
Discovering Hampton Court
25 April 2022Many of the private and public dramas in the life of Henry VIII took place at Hampton Court Palace. Begun in 1514 for Cardinal Wolsey, Hampton...
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49:19
The First CIA Mission to Afghanistan
25 April 2022In September 2001, Al-Qaeda had struck and America was aghast. Eight brave CIA officers set the pace, being the first Americans to step foot on...
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24:45
The Death of King George V: A Royal Murder Mystery
24 April 2022Just before midnight on January 20, 1936, King George V died at Sandringham, in Norfolk, England. The scandal of King George V’s reign would not...
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28:16
Tanks
24 April 2022Tanks defined 20th century conflict — they conjure to mind images of Tiananmen Square or the Soviet Army rolling into a liberated Berlin. But...
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Saint George
24 April 2022The 23rd of April marks Saint George's Day - but who are we actually celebrating? Is there any truth behind the myth of the man who slew the...
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28:25
Global Middle Ages with Peter Frankopan
23 April 2022The term “Middle Ages” is commonly used but really only applies to a Western European view of history. It was created at the beginning of the...
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48:40
The Falklands War: An Argentinian Veteran's Perspective
22 April 2022The Falklands War, or the Guerra de las Malvinas? For today’s guest, it was the latter. Roberto Herrscher grew up singing the songs of the...
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41:54
Victoria: A Greedy Queen
22 April 2022Warning: There are adult themes, explicit language and references of disordered eating and diets in this episode.
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42:43
Victoria: A Greedy Queen
21 April 2022Warning: There are adult themes, explicit language and references of disordered eating and diets in this episode.
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29:03
Milton's Paradise Lost: An Epic Poem
21 April 2022In 1667 - 355 years ago this month - a young London publisher called Samuel Simmons printed a very important book - John Milton's Paradise Lost....
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