Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Library of Lost Maps: An Archive of a World in Progress
At the heart of University College London lies a long-forgotten map library packed with thousands of maps and atlases. Professor James Cheshire stumb…
6 months, 1 week ago
Is a River Alive?: A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane
Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his gl…
6 months, 1 week ago
Jacob Bloomfield, "Drag: A British History" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 229
Drag: A British History (University of California Press, 2023) is a groundbreaking study of the sustained popularity and changing forms of male drag …
6 months, 1 week ago
Radio ReOrient 13.7: "Linguistics, Citizenship and Belonging,” with Kamran Khan, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Marchella Ward
Episode 107
In this episode, Claudia Radiven and Chella Ward talked with Kamran Khan about linguistics, citizenship and belonging. The conversation travelled fro…
6 months, 1 week ago
Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 143
Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English l…
6 months, 1 week ago
Tom White, "Bad Dust: A History of the Asbestos Disaster" (Repeater, 2025)
Once used extensively in schools, hospitals, and housing, asbestos has taken the lives of millions. Bad Dust: A History of the Asbestos Disaster (Rep…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Karen Auman, "The Good Forest: The Salzburgers, Success, and the Plan for Georgia" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
The Good Forest: The Salzburgers, Success, and the Plan for Georgia (U Georgia Press, 2024) explores some of Georgia’s earliest settlers, the Salzbur…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Max Adams and Colm O’Brien, "Northumbria AD 367-867: Earth Hall, Ring Gift and Heaven’s Field" (Birlinn, 2025)
The story of the lands between the Forth and Humber from the end of the Roman period to the Viking kingdom of York is one of the most richly fascinat…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
13.5 - John Holmwood
In this episode, Claudia Radiven and Saeed Khan spoke with Professor John Holmwood about the UK’s Prevent policy, part of the Counter Terror Strategy…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Tracy Borman, "The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2025)
In the long and dramatic annals of British history, no transition from one monarch to another has been as fraught and consequential as that which end…
6 months, 3 weeks ago