Podcasts
All Podcasts
37:48
Churchill and the Iron Curtain
5 March 2021‘From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.’ These words - spoken by Winston...
Listen Now
26:02
What's Going on in Myanmar?
4 March 2021Myanmar is currently experiencing one of its worst-ever periods of violence and civil unrest as the population protests against the recent military...
Listen Now
50:24
The Origins of Warfare
4 March 2021Popular discussions of human history are punctuated with conflict, but when did warfare begin? To discuss this massive question, Professor Nam Kim...
Listen Now
26:58
Cheddar Man: Science and the Skeleton
3 March 2021Today's episode is from our brilliant sibling podcast The Ancients. Cheddar Man is the oldest almost complete skeleton of a Homo sapien ever found in...
Listen Now
26:59
The Nazis Next Door
3 March 2021As many as 10,000 members of the Nazi party and the SS are estimated to have moved to the United States after the Second World War, legally and...
Listen Now
22:31
French Resistance Heroine Heading to the Oscars?
2 March 2021Joining me on the podcast today are Alice Doyard and Anthony Giacchino to discuss their film Colette: The french resistance fighter confronting...
Listen Now
23:02
Queens of Jerusalem
1 March 2021In today's episode of the podcast, I am joined by Katherine Pangonis a historian specialising in the medieval world of the Mediterranean and Middle...
Listen Now
45:40
Life of a Luftwaffe Ace: Hugo Broch
1 March 2021During the Second World War, Luftwaffe fighter pilot Hugo Broch claimed 81 victories in 324 missions on the Eastern Front. At Chalke Valley History...
Listen Now
38:01
The Gulf War: 30 Years On
28 February 2021On this day thirty years ago a ceasefire was declared bringing ground operations in the first Gulf War to an end. An overwhelmingly powerful...
Listen Now
24:56
Cheddar Man: Science and the Skeleton
28 February 2021Cheddar Man is the oldest almost complete skeleton of a Homo sapien ever found in Britain and, for this fantastic episode, Tristan spoke to the...
Listen Now
31:03
Lockdown Learning: The 19th Century Medical Revolution
26 February 2021The 19th century saw the world in the grip of the industrial revolution, a firepower revolution on the battlefield and a communications revolution...
Listen Now
41:55
Daughters of Yalta
26 February 2021In February 1945, the ‘Big Three’ met for arguably the most important and controversial of the conferences of the Second World War. At the Yalta...
Listen Now