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Charles Dickens
6 December 2020In today's episode, I was joined by John Mullan, Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London. He has...
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Old Testament Warriors
6 December 2020It’s probably the most famous book in the world, and it’s also essentially the only literary source which covers the genesis of warfare and the...
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Ghost Hunter!
4 December 2020Kate Summerscale has written one of the Sunday Time books of the year exploring the world of poltergeists and ghosts in the build up to the Second...
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German Plots Against Hitler
4 December 2020They may even have helped Adolf Hitler to reach power in 1933, but at the very top of the German hierachy some brave insurgents had begun, by 1936,...
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Sylvia Pankhurst
3 December 2020Rachel Holmes joined me on the podcast to discuss the life of British suffragette and socialist Sylvia Pankhurst. Sylvia found her voice fighting...
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Spartacus: Life or Legend?
3 December 2020‘I’m Spartacus!’ In the field of epic film making, the 1960 historical drama ‘Spartacus’, is legendary. Directed by Stanley Kubrick,...
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The Nuremberg Trials: 75th Anniversary
2 December 2020Tom Bower joined me on the podcast to discuss the history and legacy of the Nuremberg Trials.
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Cluster Bombs: A History
2 December 2020Maximization of damage. That’s the purpose of the cluster bomb. These weapons, which can be traced back to the First World War, when the Kaiser...
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Rebel Anthropologists Who Challenged Everything
1 December 2020Charles King joined me on the podcast to talk about a group of cultural anthropologist who fundamentally transformed conceptions of 'normality' in...
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Was Winston Churchill Racist?
30 November 2020The former Prime Minister has faced a renewed controversy as people are calling for his statues to be removed due to his racist views. We are...
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The Munich Agreement
30 November 2020The white paper of the Munich Agreement is famed as one of history's key stategic blunders. In this episode, Tim Bouverie takes Dan through the old...
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The Gay Men Who Took on Hitler
29 November 2020Chris Bryant joined me on the podcast to tell the story of the gay British politicians who were among the very first to warn Britain about the...
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