Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWindrush: The Story of Black Britain
Episode 401
On the 8th of June 1948, the HMT Windrush sailed from Kingston with almost 500 migrants on board, destined for England. The ship docked at Tilbury on…
2 years, 8 months ago
Victorian Britain's Maddest Mystery
Episode 400
In 1854, the twenty-five year old aristocrat Roger Tichborne, heir to an impressive fortune, died in a shipwreck ....Or did he? His mother, certain …
2 years, 8 months ago
Introducing... The Rest Is Entertainment
In their new podcast TV maestro and hugely successful author Richard Osman, alongside The Guardian's razor-sharp columnist Marina Hyde unravel the my…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Savage Storm: World War II and The Battle for Italy
Episode 399
The Battle for Italy in 1943 proved to be one of the bloodiest and most brutal episodes of the Second World War. Following hot on the heels of their …
2 years, 8 months ago
JFK: The Mystery is Solved (Part 7)
Episode 398
In this landmark edition of The Rest is History, Dominic and Tom reveal the astonishing solution to the mystery that has fascinated so many people fo…
2 years, 8 months ago
JFK: A Conspiracy Unmasked (Part 6)
Episode 397
“We can’t accept very comfortably that two nobodies, two nothings - Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby - were able to change the course of world history…
2 years, 8 months ago
JFK: The Second Assassin Strikes (Part 5)
Episode 396
“Jack, you son of a bitch, don’t do it!”
Just hours after President Kennedy’s assassination, in the full glare of the world’s media, the Dallas police…
2 years, 8 months ago
JFK: Hunt for a Killer (Part 4)
Episode 395
It’s 12:31pm on Friday 22nd November 1963, and in Dallas, Texas, President John F. Kennedy lies slumped against his screaming wife, half of his head …
2 years, 9 months ago
JFK: Death in Dallas (Part 3)
Episode 394
“It wouldn't be very difficult to kill the president of the United States, you just have to be in a high building with a high powered rifle, telescop…
2 years, 9 months ago
JFK: Cuba, Camelot and the Cold War (Part 2)
Episode 393
By the late 1950s, John F. Kennedy was a rich and handsome Democratic senator with a beautiful wife and young family, heading for the White House des…
2 years, 9 months ago