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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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Friday Sep 11, 2020
Friday Sep 11, 2020
Join us Down the Pub as the residents debate the greatest book in history.
Friday Sep 11, 2020
Friday Sep 11, 2020
San Francisco girl Kelly Krause joins us to talk all about her city. From indigenous people, to earthquakes, to wars and the Summer of Love, it's a vibrant story and not always what you'd expect to hear...
Thursday Sep 10, 2020
Thursday Sep 10, 2020
Nicolai Eberholst concludes his epic history of the Austro-Hungarian empire in the First World War. Today we look at 1917-18 and the fall of the Empire.
Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
Colin Fisher joins us to talk all about Spain's answer to Shakespeare and his finest work.
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Lesley McFadyen joins us to talk all about the challenges of researching prehistory in the absence of documents and testimony.
Monday Sep 07, 2020
Monday Sep 07, 2020
Catrine Clay joins us to share tales from her new book, which looks at German resistance to the Nazis in the 1930s and 40s.
Friday Sep 04, 2020
Friday Sep 04, 2020
Got a spare twenty minutes? Owen Griffiths returns with a spooky tale borne out of the confusion of the dissolution of the monasteries in the sixteenth century.
Friday Sep 04, 2020
Friday Sep 04, 2020
Guide and historian Becky Laxton-Bass joins us to talk all about some of her favourite women who have shaped the history of London.
Thursday Sep 03, 2020
Thursday Sep 03, 2020
James Holland celebrates the release of his brand new book by joining us to talk all about Operation Husky
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
Mary Rose regular Charlotte White joins us for a comprehensive look at the life of a Hollywood icon.