Jim Windolf: The Beatles' 'Dylan Month' (1966)
In this episode we talk to the journalist and author Jim Windolf about a 'testy, interesting and weird' month in the mid-1960s when Bob Dyla...
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Travels Through Time
In each episode we ask a leading historian, novelist or public figure the tantalising question, "If you could travel back through time, which year would you visit?" Once they have made their...
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20 of 100 episodesMeghan Kobza: The Magnificent Masquerade (1768)
Few parties in history can match the Georgian 'Masquerade'. And among Georgian masquerades the one given by the King of Denmark in London in...
Rory Naismith: Offa King of the Mercians (796)
This week the Cambridge professor Rory Naismith takes us back to the eighth century to glimpse what we can of Offa King of the Mercians. Off...
Catherine Ostler: The Renoir Girls (1881)
This week's episode takes us to Paris in La Belle Époque. There, among all the splendour and sophistication, we watch the great Impressionis...
[From the Archive] Philip Stephens: Britain Alone (1962)
As Britain's 'special relationship' with the USA falters, we look back at a very relevant epislode from our archive. In this the author and...
Nicholas Walton: The End of the Dutch Empire (1950)
The Netherlands is a small nation with a big history. But in the 1940s it suffered a series of disastrous events. First came the invasion of...
Veronica Buckley: The Hapsburgs and the French Revolution (1790)
The late eighteenth century history was a time in Europe when a brilliant old world collapsed and raucous new one rose to replace it. In thi...
Marc Mierowsky: Daniel Defoe the English Spy (1706)
Most people know Daniel Defoe as one of the great writers in the history of English literature. But the author of Robinson Crusoe was much m...
Sean Cunningham: King Henry VII and a Year of Peril (1497)
Today’s guest, Sean Cunningham, takes us back to a particularly perilous year in the eventful reign of King Henry VII. He explains that 1497...
Peter Moore: The Duke of York Scandal (1809)
Given the scandal surrounding Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, we thought we'd examine an eerily familiar moment in British history. In January 1...
Charles King: The Premiere of Handel's Messiah (1742)
Our guest today is the New York Times bestselling historian Charles King, the author of Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times...
Tharik Hussain: Córdoba in the Islamic Golden Age (929)
Our guest today is Tharik Hussain, a travel writer turned historian who has recently produced an enchanting study of Europe's Islamic histor...
Sarah Wise: The Undesirables (1947)
Our guest today is Sarah Wise, an author known for her incisive social studies of nineteenth century history. In this episode Wise takes us...
[From the archive] Neil Oliver: Skara Brae (2,500 BC)
In this episode from our archive we spoke to the archeologist and broadcaster Neil Oliver, a figure familiar to millions in the UK. While Ol...
Vivaldi Special. Hannah French on The Four Seasons
There's no more familiar piece of classical music than Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. But for all the recordings and broadcasts and int...
Nikolai Tolstoy on Patrick O'Brian
After some time away, we've decided that now's the moment for some new forays into the past. Keep an eye on this feed – new episodes on the...
S.C. Gwynne: R101 – The World’s Largest Flying Machine (1930)
After a short break at TTT, enter the world’s largest flying machine. ‘R101’ was one of the most ambitious creations of the airship era. Pla...
Peter Moore: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
Join Peter Moore and Sarah Bakewell for a little walking tour of Fleet Street in London. Instead of three scenes, in this episode they stop...
[From the archive] Philip Hoare: Albert and the Whale (1520)
In 1520 the artist Albrecht Dürer was on the run from the Plague and on the look-out for distraction when he heard that a huge whale had bee...
[From the archive] Bernard Cornwell: The Battle of Waterloo (1815)
It's time to revisit our archives. In this episode one of the world’s great historical novelists takes us back to one of the most dramatic a...
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