Sinclair McKay: Founding the Home Guard (1940)
May 1940 is one of the critical months in British history. As the Nazis tore across Europe and Winston Churchill became Prime Minister, our...
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20 of 108 episodesDon Hollway: King Olaf Tryggvason of the Vikings (1000)
On today's episode Don Hollway takes us back to see 'the Viking's Viking', King Olaf I, in the year when his dramatic story reached its myst...
Gary Mead : The Young Bernard Montgomery and the First World War (1914)
Ranking only behind Churchill in the pantheon of Britain's WW2 heroes is Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery or 'Monty'. In this episode the bi...
Edoardo Albert : The Venerable Bede (716)
In this episode we head back to the Anglo Saxon Age with Edoardo Albert to meet the 'Father of English History' – the Venerable Bede. Bede i...
Nandini Das: A New View of Stuart England (1636)
In this episode prize-winning author Nandini Das takes us back to 1630s England to see a country still grappling with the legacies of the Re...
Edmund Richardson: Alexander the Great's Remarkable Year (331 BCE)
Alexander the Great is one of the most famous figures in history. Today our guest, Edmund Richardson, takes us back to see him in the year 3...
Taylor Downing: On The Brink Of Nuclear Armageddon (1983)
In the autumn of 1983 the world came very close to nuclear disaster without even knowing about it. US President Ronald Reagan would later re...
[Live] Paul O'Keeffe: After The Battle of Trafalgar (1806)
Live from Dr Johnson's House off Fleet Street in London, in this episode the biographer and historian Paul O'Keeffe takes us on an immersive...
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...
Meghan 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...