History Hit Podcasts

Tudor Origins of the Condom

What were condoms like in Tudor times? Before you were able to pop to the supermarket to pick some up, where did people buy them?

Joining...

The Anarchy: Disruptive Women

The Anarchy is an intriguing and often forgotten period of history. There are fascinating characters and moments of deep political importance...

Inside North Korea

With closed borders, a totalitarian regime, electricity blackouts and widespread poverty, North Korea is a brutal place to survive; even...

Pegasus Bridge: The First Assault of D-Day

Just after midnight on the 6th of June, 1944, 181 British glider-borne infantry crashed to earth in the Normandy countryside. They clambered out...

D-Day: The Deception that Made it Possible

Please note that this episode contains explicit language.

On the 29th of May, 1944, less than a week before D-Day, General George S. Patton...

D-Day: The Land Invasion

Dan and military historian Stephen Fischer record a moment by moment play of the dramatic and bloody first crucial hour and a half of D-day, as it...

D-Day: The Air Invasion

In the second episode of our D-Day series, we look to the skies. In the build-up to Operation Overlord, thousands of Allied pilots in heavy...

D-Day: The Sea Invasion

This is the often forgotten chapter of the D-Day story.

To begin our series for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, we turn to the...

America at D-Day

On June 6, 1944, the Allied forces combined their land, air and sea forces into the largest amphibious invasion in history - D-Day.

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A Tudor Mystery: The Girl Who Could Be Queen

This episode solves the 400-year old mystery of a previously unknown portrait of a young woman, dressed to look just like Queen Elizabeth...

The Witch of New York: 1840's Murder Trials of Polly Bodine

On Christmas night 1843 a mother and child were found murdered inside their burned out home. Suspicion fell on one Polly Bodine. Over the next...

Noah's Ark and the Flood

The Ancients launches a new miniseries exploring the stories, people, objects and kingdoms central to the Old Testament's narrative.

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Las Vegas & Atomic Tourism

In the 1950s, the US government conducted a series of nuclear bomb tests in the Mojave desert, right next door to Las Vegas. Tourists flocked to...

Fantastic Beasts of the Middle Ages

In the Middle Ages, animals were often the means for survival and the source of great wealth. No wonder then that in the medieval...

Incest in Ancient Rome

What's the worst thing you could accuse someone of in Ancient Rome? There are a few strong candidates, but incest is definitely up there.

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Julius Caesar's Sex Life

"I came. I saw. I conquered".

Perhaps the most famous Julius Caesar quote of all time. But after hearing all about his bedroom antics, it...

Six Wives: Anne Boleyn

Six wives - six lives that we think we know everything about. But beyond their mostly doomed marriages to Henry VIII and, in most cases,...

Japan's First Unifier: Oda Nobunaga

Oda Nobunaga. He’s one of feudal Japan’s most infamous and consequential figures, known to many as Japan’s first ‘Great Unifier’. From...

The Real Mutiny on the Bounty: Revenge in Paradise (Part 2)

Mutineers, manhunts, uninhabited tropical islands and...SHIPWRECKS! The second part of the story of the Mutiny of the Bounty is even wilder than...

Communism in America

The history of the United States' relationship with communism is one littered with fear and persecution. So where did the American Communist Party...

The Fall of Mark Antony: From Caesar to Cleopatra

After the death of his patron Julius Caesar, the Roman world was Mark Antony’s for the taking. His triumph over Caesar’s assassins at Phillipi...