Podcast Episodes

Watergate: Part 2

Season 1 Episode 107

Despite his overwhelming lead in the polls, President Richard Nixon’s paranoia leads to the criminal actions of the Watergate scandal. In this second…

4 years, 5 months ago

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Watergate: Part 1

Season 1 Episode 106

What led Richard Nixon into the greatest political scandal in American history? Dominic Sandbrook, acclaimed historian of the period, leads Tom Holla…

4 years, 5 months ago

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Classics

Season 1 Episode 105

The world’s most famous classicist, Professor Mary Beard, joins Tom and Dominic to discuss how the legacy of classical Greece and Rome has been inter…

4 years, 6 months ago

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Bonus Episode: No Time to Die

Season 1 Episode 105

WARNING: THIS PODCAST INCLUDES SPOILERS ABOUT THE NEW JAMES BOND MOVIE. DO NOT LISTEN UNTIL YOU’VE SEEN THE FILM.

What does the new Bond movie tell us…

4 years, 6 months ago

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Macbeth

Season 1 Episode 104

Something wicked this way comes. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook take a deep dive into the real history of Scotland’s most notorious king. Was he r…

4 years, 6 months ago

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The Norse Sagas

Season 1 Episode 103

In today’s episode, Tom and Dominic are joined by Dr Eleanor Barraclough as they sail across the Atlantic in a dragon-ship, bound for the epic world …

4 years, 6 months ago

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Germany from Adenauer to Angela

Season 1 Episode 102

As Angela Merkel bows out of German politics, Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland explore the surprisingly colourful world of Germany’s Chancellors sin…

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James Bond

Season 1 Episode 101

The fictional British agent James Bond returns to our cinema screens this week, but what do the history and evolution of Ian Fleming’s iconic charact…

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Decolonising Africa

Episode 100

Writer and critic Tomiwa Owolade joins Dominic and Tom to discuss the pan-African movement and the varying ways in which African states became indepe…

4 years, 6 months ago

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Thermopylae & Salamis Episode 2

Season 1 Episode 99

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook continue their celebration of the 2,500th anniversary of the Persian invasion of Greece. Today, they look at two ba…

4 years, 6 months ago

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