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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...
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...
Few parties in history can match the Georgian 'Masquerade'. And among Georgian masquerades the one given by the King of Denmark in London in...
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...
This week's episode takes us to Paris in La Belle Époque. There, among all the splendour and sophistication, we watch the great Impressionis...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Given the scandal surrounding Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, we thought we'd examine an eerily familiar moment in British history. In January 1...
Our guest today is the New York Times bestselling historian Charles King, the author of Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times...
Our guest today is Tharik Hussain, a travel writer turned historian who has recently produced an enchanting study of Europe's Islamic histor...
Our guest today is Sarah Wise, an author known for her incisive social studies of nineteenth century history. In this episode Wise takes us...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Our guest today is one of the greatest of Britons. Lady Hale was, until her retirement three years ago, the President of the Supreme Court o...
In this special live episode, recorded at the Buckingham Literary Festival last weekend, the award-winning writer Flora Fraser takes us to o...
In this episode the cultural historian Mike Jay takes Peter back to the high Victorian Age to see how a pioneering group of scholars and art...
In this lively episode of Travels Through Time the historian Dr David Veevers takes us to the heart of the seventeenth century to visit thre...
This week we head to the turbulent world of sixteenth century France to meet three fascinating queens whose lives were inextricably linked –...
The Renaissance was stirred into life by many figures of genius. In this episode Peter meets up with the art historian, Andrew Spira, to tal...
For this week's episode Peter headed in to Penguin's offices in London to meet Serhii Plokhy and talk to him about his new book, The Russo-U...
It's time to delve into our archive. In this brilliantly descriptive and entertaining episode, the award-winning writer and satirist Craig B...
In this episode of Travels Through Time the classicist Honor Cargill-Martin takes Artemis on a tour of the debauched and dangerous world of...
Today Tom Whipple, science editor of The Times, takes us back to a critical moment at the beginning of World War Two. Just a month after rep...
It has been said that the past is another country, but the events we discuss in this episode feel all too familiar. Media interference in el...
England in the mid sixteenth century was filled with drama and novelty. As conspiracies played out and a new queen sought to established her...
In today’s beautifully described episode the author and journalist Luke Turner takes us back to 1943 to present us with a refreshingly diffe...
This week we have an extra Friday episode for you. It’s with the multi-talented artist, historian and musician Dr Amy Jeffs. She takes us ba...
In the last decades of the fifteenth century, life in England was finally starting to settle down after years of upheaval and conflict durin...
This month marks 80 years since the government of Nazi Germany announced the shocking discovery of a series of mass graves in the Katyń Fore...
Today the archaeologist and executive director of World Monuments Fund, John Darlington, takes us on a dramatic trip back to the 1690s to wi...
‘I have so often wondered’, the historian Katja Hoyer says, ‘what I would have made of the state that I was born into had I been born a few...
In this episode we talk to the game designer David Milne about his historical work on the hugely popular real time strategy game Company of...
Today the bestselling and prize-winning author Sarah Bakewell takes us back to the mid-fourteenth century. This was a time of great hardship...
The relationship between England and India is a deep and complex one. In this episode the academic and author of Courting India, Nandini Das...
In this deeply moving episode from 2020 the New York Times bestselling author Ariana Neuman told her father's extraordinary story for the ve...
This week we tackle the fascinating and complex relationship between science and religion, in the company of the academic and writer Nichola...
Nothing symbolises the might of imperial Rome like their roads. Expertly engineered and perfectly cambered, they were the arteries of the gr...
1066 was the year that England’s destiny was decided. In this superbly analysed episode, the author Don Hollway takes us back to the scenes...
Here is another gem from our archive. In this fascinating episode the archaeologist and writer Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes takes us back further...
In the early sixteenth century, some of the world’s most famous works of art were being created, many of them in Florence and Rome. In this...
In this episode the Guardian journalist Tania Branigan takes us back to the opening phases of the ‘Cultural Revolution’, Mao Zedong’s attemp...
It is difficult to hear the stories of medieval women, but one voice rings down the ages, clear as a bell. Alison, the Wife of Bath, is Geof...
This week we’re heading back to the fourth century BC to take a look at one of the world’s greatest ever philosophers. Indeed, according to...