Podcast Episodes

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…

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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…

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Thermopylae & Salamis Episode 1

Season 1 Episode 98

In 480 BC, 300 Spartans made a famous stand at Thermopylae, as hordes of Persian soldiers, led by Xerxes, seemed set to succeed in their aim of conqu…

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Top Ten Mistresses

Season 1 Episode 97

Tom Holland is joined by Ali Ansari to discuss the most influential mistresses in history. The definition of success is to impact history, despite of…

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The UK’s Best Churches

Season 1 Episode 96

There are estimated to be around 16 thousand churches in England alone. But which are the finest in the UK? Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook are joi…

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9/11

Season 1 Episode 95

On the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, four commercial airliners were hijacked above the US by the militant Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda…

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Silicon Valley Part 2

Season 1 Episode 94

The rise of social media is the central subject of our second instalment with tech pioneer Marc Andreessen. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook ask whe…

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Silicon Valley Part 1

Season 1 Episode 93

Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland are joined by tech pioneer Marc Andreessen. Has the internet been the most important force in modern history? In pa…

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Nuclear Weapons

Season 1 Episode 92

The year is 1983, and on November the 8th the world is the closest it’s ever been to nuclear destruction, yet nobody at the time realises. Dominic an…

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