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We are a slightly mad, always fun podcast bringing you all the History you love and a lot that you didn‘t know you‘d love until you heard it here! Recommended by BBC Radio, and presented by acclaimed historian Alexandra Churchill, with Alina Nowobilska, Chris Sams and the rest of the awesome team.
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Sunday Jul 05, 2020
Sunday Jul 05, 2020
Bettany Hughes joins us to talk about why she loves the Odyssey so much that she went and made a whole TV series about it. And apologises a lot for being all over beautiful Greek islands just as everyone else was getting locked up!
Saturday Jul 04, 2020
Saturday Jul 04, 2020
Kate Williams joins us to discuss the life of Mary Queen of Scots, including her youth, her marriages, and her relationship with Elizabeth I.
Friday Jul 03, 2020
Friday Jul 03, 2020
Join us in The Mary Rose where we reveal the finalists in our Greatest Briton vote. For weeks you've been making your voices heard, and now our regulars give you the pros of each candidate before the Roastmaster General gives you the cons. Voting opens on Saturday via our twitter feed and numbers 11-100 will be revealed.
Friday Jul 03, 2020
Friday Jul 03, 2020
George Morton-Jack joins us to discuss all things India and WW1. From politics, motivations and the home front to the experience of battle across the globe.
Thursday Jul 02, 2020
Thursday Jul 02, 2020
The fabulous Claire Kennan joins us for an animated and in-depth look at The Black Death.
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
Richard Osgood joins us to talk about the truly exceptional archaeological site of Barrow Clump and what it tells us about the Anglo-Saxon period
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
As a follow up to our general look at the Battle of the Somme, we are joined by Andrew Holmes, Andy Lock, Bethany Moore and a cast of contributors. We commemorate a different narrative of the 1st July 1916; bringing into focus the southern sector of the battlefield, we discuss General Walter Norris Congreve's XIII Corps and their successful assault on the area around Montauban.