Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchStealing the V2 rocket: Britain’s secret WW2 intelligence coup
Episode 2567
In 1944, as Allied troops pushed across Europe after D-Day, the Allies faced a terrifying new threat: Hitler’s V2 weapons, striking without warning a…
4 weeks ago
The road to the American Revolutionary War
Episode 2566
The United States often presents its birth as a straightforward struggle for liberty – but reality was far more messy. In this first episode of Histo…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
The protestant missionaries that didn't change the world
Episode 2565
Why did Protestant missionaries travel the globe across the course of centuries, only to convert remarkably few people? Alec Ryrie – author of new bo…
1 month ago
Strangers and aliens in Tudor England
Episode 2564
Many histories of the 16th century tell stories of monarchs and courtiers – but there is, of course, much more to the century than that. Speaking to …
1 month ago
Alexander the Great: life of the week
Episode 2563
Stretching from Greece to India, Alexander the Great’s empire was one of the largest in human history, and he’d conquered it all by the time he was 3…
1 month ago
What myths do we tell about royal women?
Episode 2562
Have royal women's stories been misconstrued? Speaking to Charlotte Vosper, Kate Williams argues that many of them have been, tracing the lives of a …
1 month ago
Cleopatra’s death – and cultural afterlife
Episode 2561
The final chapter of Cleopatra’s life is shrouded in mystery. Did she really take her own life? Was an asp involved? And why don’t we know where her …
1 month ago
Masters of disinformation: how British spies played dirty in the Cold War
Episode 2560
They 'haunted' an Indonesian general with a talking ghost and planted fake hippies in a Bulgarian youth festival. But did they change the course of t…
1 month, 1 week ago
Churchill's toughest decision
Episode 2559
In the summer of 1940, the Royal Navy attacked a French fleet moored off the coast of north Africa, killing almost 1,300 sailors. Winston Churchill d…
1 month, 1 week ago
Henry Paget: life of the week
Episode 2558
Henry Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey, lived a life of extravagance, luxury and theatre – and for this, he was the subject of much intrigue in the la…
1 month, 1 week ago