Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe WAAF: the many behind the few
Episode 1715
In his famous speech of summer 1940, Winston Churchill hailed the RAF as the “few” who protected the skies during the Battle of Britain. But the succ…
3 years, 1 month ago
Eastern Europe: a personal journey through the region’s past
Episode 1714
Eastern Europe has been the setting for some of history’s most climactic events. Yet barely 30 years since the collapse of Communism heralded the so-…
3 years, 2 months ago
Roman gods & goddesses: everything you wanted to know
Episode 1713
How were Roman deities different to Greek deities? Why did the Romans sacrifice animals? What did religious cults get up to in ancient Rome? And just…
3 years, 2 months ago
Blindness: a cultural history
Episode 1712
As far back as the archaeological record takes us, we can find evidence of blind people. But the experiences of those people – and the ways they were…
3 years, 2 months ago
Big questions of the Crimean War: aftermath and legacy
Episode 1711
From advances in weaponry and warships to the use of telegraphs and photography, the Crimean War produced a whole host of innovations. In the final e…
3 years, 2 months ago
Kate Mosse on pirate women & Huguenot refugees
Episode 1710
Writer Kate Mosse shares the historical inspirations behind her latest novel, The Ghost Ship, which takes readers across the high seas from 17th-cent…
3 years, 2 months ago
How did medieval people tell the time?
Episode 1709
It would be easy to assume that before the invention of the modern clock, people didn’t have a very sophisticated sense of time – they rose with the …
3 years, 2 months ago
Lost civilisations of the Mediterranean
Episode 1708
The Mediterranean coastline is strewn with the remnants of lost civilisations. From Tyre and Carthage, to Ravenna, Syracuse and Antioch, Katherine Pa…
3 years, 2 months ago
1980s Britain: everything you wanted to know
Episode 1707
The Mediterranean coastline is strewn with the remnants of lost civilisations. From Tyre and Carthage, to Ravenna, Syracuse and Antioch, Katherine Pa…
3 years, 2 months ago
Tom Holland on Rome’s golden age
Episode 1706
As history shows, ruling a vast empire is no mean feat. But in the second century AD the Romans seemed to be able to manage it with relative ease. Th…
3 years, 2 months ago