Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHistory of India in 10 Buildings
Season 1 Episode 110
Curator and art historian Aparna Andhare gives Tom and Dominic her selection of the ten buildings that best illustrate India’s past 4,500 years. Rang…
4 years, 10 months ago
Dinosaurs
Season 1 Episode 109
How did the existence of dinosaurs come to be discovered, & what role have they played in the popular imagination over the past 200 years? And what c…
4 years, 10 months ago
The Industrial Revolution
Season 1 Episode 108
Did the industrial revolution really improve people’s lives? And why was Britain first to industrialise? Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook are joined…
4 years, 10 months ago
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, 10 months ago
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, 10 months ago
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, 10 months ago
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, 10 months ago
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, 10 months ago
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, 10 months ago
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…
4 years, 11 months ago