Podcast Episodes

Hall of Fame: Joshua Levine on History's Fancy Dress SAS

Season 5

Tune in for a riveting Hall of Fame as Joshua Levine nominates Mick Gurmin, a member of the SAS before the SAS even existed. This is the very apex of forgotten history, hidden history and untold stor…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Making History Matter: A Live Debate with Joshua Levine and Oswin

Season 5 Episode 4

It's time for a history reboot. In this Trapped History Special, Oswin and historian Joshua Levine discuss truth, myth and storytelling in front of an invited audience at an event hosted by Saboteur,…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Hall of Fame: Gwen Strauss on a Resistance Hero and Witness to History

Season 5

Tune in to hear the historian Gwen Strauss' nominee for the Trapped History Hall of Fame. A hidden history hero of the Resistance, she is someone we have truly never heard of but she is perhaps one o…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Useless Mouths: Gwen Strauss on Untold Stories of Forbidden Love in the Holocaust

Season 5 Episode 3

It’s October 1940 and you are walking down a dusty lane when someone slips a scrap of paper into your hand. You hold it tightly in your palm, waiting until you’re round a corner and away from prying …

Published on 5 months ago

Hall of Fame: Sarah-Jane Morris Hails Music's Miss America

Season 5

Please put your hands together for Sarah-Jane Morris' Hall of Fame nominee, music's hidden hero Mary Margaret O'Hara. So many of our nominees are lost in the mists of history. They are part of our fo…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

The Lost Singer-Songwriter: Sarah-Jane Morris on Connie Converse, Music's Hidden Hero

Season 5 Episode 2

A decade before Dylan, there was Connie Converse – arguably the very first singer-songwriter with inner-city tales of loss and longing. But have you heard of her? Have you heard her music?

Connie's st…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Hall of Fame: The Forgotten Hero of Architecture Minnette de Silva

Season 5

Nihal Arthanayake's nomination for the Trapped History Hall of Fame is a great one. The lost, forgotten and overlooked Sri Lankan hidden hero of architecture Minnette de Silva.

She was the first Asian…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

The Difficult Conversation: The Real Nihal on Helen Bamber’s Mission to Bear Witness to History's Horrors

Season 5 Episode 1

How do you hear the testimony of someone who has been terrorised and tortured? How do you listen as a perpetrator defends their crimes? How can two peoples who have hated and killed each other throug…

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

Season 5 Special: It's A Continent x Trapped History on Patrice Lumumba

Season 5

Our new season kicks off proper next week with an enthralling episode where the broadcaster Nihal Arthanayake helps us tell the story of the woman who listened – the great Helen Bamber. And we’ll be …

Published on 6 months ago

Season 5: History for the Curious

Season 5

A heads-up for Season 5 of Trapped History which drops from 1st July. Carla can't wait and neither can we, so head over to trappedhistory.com and subscribe!

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago