Podcast Episodes

The Hall of Fame Special: Who Would You Like to Add?

Season 4 Episode 7

We've spent so long asking our guests who they'd like to see in the Trapped History Hall of Fame, that for our 30th episode we thought we'd do something a bit different.

And so Carla, MK and Oswin hav…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Season 4 taster: From Broken Threads to the Animal King

Season 4

Here's a taster of Season 4, starting with Mishal Husain's Broken Threads before moving on to Mishka Sinha on Untold Lives, Kim Wager on Making Sense of Murder, Chris French on the Amazing Randi, Cla…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

The Animal King: Frank Bostock and the Magic of Circus

Season 4 Episode 6

Roll up, roll up for the Season Four closer — as we take a trip to the circus!

At Trapped History, we look at lives and stories which have been forgotten or ignored, and there is one community in Brit…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

Hall of Fame: Seventy-Five Letters

Season 4

Join Oswin and Carla for this moving Hall of Fame from historian Clare Mulley as she remembers wartime nurses, Dorothy Field and Mollie Evershed. They are the only women among over 22,000 men to be r…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

The Missing Holes: Agent Zo and the Women of the Home Army

Season 4 Episode 5

She is one of the most important women of the Second World War — a fighter, a secret agent, a government envoy and a commando. But have we heard of her? Can we sing her name? If not, you've come to t…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

Hall of Fame: The Meaning of Memory

Season 4

Tune in to a fascinating Hall of Fame as Professor Chris French nominates Ellizabeth Loftus, a psychologist famed for her work on false, recovered and repressed memory.

It's not just Elizabeth's life …

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

Dikki Redux: The Woman Behind the Record

Season 4

We might have heard of Amelia Earhart or even Amy Johnson, but who remembers Richarda Morrow-Tait, the first woman to fly around the world?

Well, someone does because on 19th August this year, a blue …

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

The Amazing Randi: Patron Saint of Sceptics

Season 4 Episode 4

Welcome back after our mid-season break! And what a return – with (drum roll) the mysteries, magic and mayhem of The Amazing Randi. He had everything a conjuror should have – the baffling genius, the…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Hall of Fame: Mark Twain and the Dishonesty of the American Flag

Season 4

Every episode, we ask our guest to nominate someone for the Trapped History Hall of Fame. Usually, it's someone we've never heard of but really should have. But sometimes, just sometimes, it's someon…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Making Sense of Murder: From Paris to the Philippines

Season 4 Episode 3

It's October 1961. The Beatles are in Hamburg, JFK in the White House, Yuri Gagarin has just shot into space. And a state-sponsored killing spree is going down on the streets of a capital city. But t…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago