Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
Hundred Years' War: A Game of Thrones (Part 1)
Episode 318
Dynastic turmoil, inconvenient treaties with Scotland, tales of knights, longbows and the golden age of chivalry. In a time of chaos across Europe, E…
3 years, 5 months ago
African Amazons
Episode 317
A story spanning modern-day Ghana, Angola, and Benin, historian Luke Pepera joins Tom and Dominic to discuss the tradition of African queens, female …
3 years, 5 months ago
The First Abolitionist
Episode 316
It's 1718, an English Quaker lands in Barbados. He is soon horrified to discover the treatment of people working the plantations there. Treatment the…
3 years, 5 months ago
Atlantis: Legacy of the Lost Empire (Part 2)
Episode 315
From claims that the alphabet was originated by Atlantians, Francis Bacon using the story as a model of utopia, to the Nazis co-opting Atlantis as th…
3 years, 5 months ago
Atlantis: The Legend
Episode 314
Majestic palaces, untold riches, and indeterminable power... the story of Atlantis is a tale as old as time. But is there really any truth behind the…
3 years, 5 months ago
Climate Apocalypse
Episode 313
Have humans always been haunted by fears of a climate apocalypse? Or is that a modern phenomenon? Is there a continuity from the Curse of Akkad to th…
3 years, 5 months ago
Reagan, Iran-Contra and the Cold War (Part 3)
Episode 312
Warmonger or nuclear disarmer? Ronald Reagan’s presidency survived an assassination attempt, the AIDS epidemic and the Iranian hostage crisis. He pow…
3 years, 5 months ago
Reagan: The Road to the White House (Part 2)
Episode 311
His Hollywood career drying up, Ronald Reagan works both for the Screen Actors Guild and General Electric in the 1950s. Building connections with the…
3 years, 5 months ago
Ronald Reagan and the American Dream (Part 1)
Episode 310
Ronald "Dutch" Reagan was born in 1911 to a humble family of Illinois, his father an FDR-loving democrat, his mother a notable member of the local Ch…
3 years, 6 months ago
Columbus: Villain or Hero? (Part 4)
Episode 309
Christopher Columbus caused debate in his own time, and remains a controversial figure today: some argue he initiated both the Atlantic slave trade a…
3 years, 6 months ago