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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The Scholars of Assyria
27 January 2022Tens of thousands of clay tablets containing texts written in the ancient Cuneiform script of the Assyrian Empire have been discovered, giving us...
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Green Fashion with Eshita Kabra-Davies
27 January 2022Did you know that the fashion industry emits more carbon than international flights and maritime shipping combined? Or that most of the clothes we...
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Cooking with Jamie Oliver
27 January 2022Jimmy’s childhood friend, Jamie Oliver, is the first guest on the farm. Hear a new side to Jamie as they discuss his rise to fame and the...
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The Boy Who Survived Auschwitz
27 January 2022Thomas Geve was just 15 years old when he was liberated from Buchenwald concentration camp on 11 April 1945. It was the third concentration camp...
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The SAS in the Falklands: Part Two
26 January 2022In this archive episode, Dan Snow concludes his fascinating talk with Sir Cedric Delves and Danny West about the involvement of the SAS in the...
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Munich - The Edge of War: Reappraising Chamberlain
26 January 2022Join James from the Warfare Podcast, as he chats to the writer and cast of the new film 'Munich - the Edge of War'. Set in 1938, the movie follows...
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Medieval Warhorses
25 January 2022While Braveheart isn't known for its historical accuracy - there is one surprising fact it gets dramatically wrong. In the medieval period, the...
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22:59
The Gilded Age
25 January 2022The Gilded Age was a time in American history when the economy grew at its fastest rate in history. This had wide-reaching cultural and social...
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Welcome to Jimmy's Farm
24 January 2022Join celebrity farmer, ecologist and conservationist, Jimmy Doherty, on his farm as he talks to eco-experts and well-known faces about trying to...
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43:05
Henry VIII & Jousting
24 January 2022In the world of King Henry VIII, the paramount place to demonstrate physical strength and manly courage was the joust - and Henry excelled at...
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33:48
How Australia Survived WW2
24 January 2022Jim Burrows OAM, 98, served as a Coastwatcher in the South Pacific during World War Two. The Coastwatchers were an intelligence arm of the Allied...
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22:08
Champagne Riots
24 January 2022Rebecca Gibb is a Master of Wine. A ninja who can sniff out a Merlot from a Margaux at 50 paces. In this archive episode, she talks to Dan about...
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Alexander the Great & The Persian Thermopylae (Part Two)
23 January 2022In this second part of Tristan’s explainer, he takes us right into the heart of the battle dubbed the Persian Thermopylae. Listen as Alexander...
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1942: Churchill's Real Darkest Hour
23 January 2022Most people think that Britain's worst moment of the war was in 1940 when the nation stood up against the threat of German invasion. Yet, eighty...
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How to Survive in Medieval England
22 January 2022If you travelled back in time to the Medieval period this very second, do you think you would survive? The short answer is probably not. If you...
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Munich - The Edge of War: Reappraising Chamberlain
21 January 2022Join James this week for a special episode of Warfare, chatting to the writer and cast of the new film 'Munich - the Edge of War'. Set in 1938,...
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33:58
Roe v. Wade: America's Landmark Ruling
21 January 2022On January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Texas law banning abortion, effectively legalising the procedure nationwide. The court...
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48:15
Kate Mosse: Writing Historical Fiction
20 January 2022Kate Mosse is the multimillion-selling author of the Languedoc Trilogy - Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel. With her new novel The City of...
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38:37
Alexander the Great & The Persian Thermopylae (Part One)
20 January 2022In January 330 BC, Alexander the Great faced one of his most difficult challenges to date. A small Persian force, entrenched in a formidable...
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Who Was Joan of Arc?
20 January 2022Joan of Arc is a name that’s instantly recognisable to most. A controversial figure in her own day, she has remained so ever since, often being...
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The SAS in the Falklands: Part One
19 January 2022In this episode from the archive, Dan Snow hears the incredible story of the SAS's involvement in the Falklands from the men who were actually there:...
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