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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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Thursday Sep 09, 2021
Thursday Sep 09, 2021
The birth of The Pathfinder Force would revolutionise Bomber Command’s war, but who were the people behind it and who was Don Bennett, the trailblazing inter-war aviator that Arthur Harris appointed to lead the new Target Finding Force, and then undermined him at every turn?
In his new book, The Pathfinders, author Will Iredale looks at the Pathfinder Force and at the men and women who made the PFF’s moto, “We Guide to Strike”, so terrifyingly effective.
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Buy The Kamikaze Hunters by Will Iredale at our Bookshop: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781447227205
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Wednesday Sep 08, 2021
Wednesday Sep 08, 2021
Thabo Stuck and Ajjaz Awad join us to talk all about bringing the history of the English Civil War to life for a musical theatre audience with their new musical, #50Days.
Learn more about #50Days on the official Twitter page: https://twitter.com/50Days_Musical
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Monday Sep 06, 2021
Monday Sep 06, 2021
Jenny Grant joins us to talk all about General Stanisław Maczek and the role of his Polish forces in the Second World War.
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Friday Sep 03, 2021
Friday Sep 03, 2021
The regulars convene, with a lot to say. This time they're battling it out to find the most overdone, relentless piece of history out there...
Friday Sep 03, 2021
Friday Sep 03, 2021
Penny Griffiths-Morgan returns with another piece of paranormal history, and the story of researching the history behind a haunted school that never sleeps.
Wednesday Sep 01, 2021
Wednesday Sep 01, 2021
Sam Wilson joins us to talk all about what its like to work in the field of battlefield archaeology.
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Monday Aug 30, 2021
Monday Aug 30, 2021
Photographer Lee Miller and artist Roland Penrose were at the centre of the inter-war Surrealism movement. Through their art, they embraced the movement before the war intervened and changed the direction of their lives. Boney and Charlotte are joined by Antony Penrose, Lee and Roland's son, and Ami Bouhassane, their granddaughter, to discuss surrealism and the incredible lives of Lee and Roland.
Be sure to visit https://www.farleyshouseandgallery.co.uk/ and https://www.leemiller.co.uk/ for more on Roland and Lee.
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Buy Lee Miller by Ami Ami Bouhassane here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781916041646
Buy Dressed For War: The Story of Audrey Withers, Vogue editor extraordinaire from the Blitz to the Swinging Sixties by Julie Summers here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781471181603
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Friday Aug 27, 2021
Friday Aug 27, 2021
Author Abbot Kahler (Karren Abbott, we explain that, sort of) joins Boney and Charlotte to discuss the meteoric rise and fall of Prohibition Booze Baron George Remus, his wife Imogene, the G-Woman who brought them down and the G-Man who tried to make off with the lot.
This episode has just about everything you would want: crime, illicit booze, cocktails, an epic party, a spot of prison time and then... well for that you will have to listen, then buy the book! Annoyingly, it is not yet available in our bookshop... So find it!
Abbott's website is https://abbottkahler.com/
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Wednesday Aug 25, 2021
Wednesday Aug 25, 2021
Matt Pope returns to blow your mind. Again. What can the archaeological record tell us about three million years of our own history?
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Monday Aug 23, 2021
Monday Aug 23, 2021
Vanda Wilcox celebrates the release of her new book by telling us all about Italy, imperialism and the First World War.
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