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A lot of history episodes and a lot of film episodes. A few other subjects in between!
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Constantinople show its teeth - part 1 of the Adventures of Belisarius and Antonina
David Parnell has a wonderful new book out called Be...
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Sep 24 2023 58m
Mao's China with Frank Dikötter
Frank Dikötter is the author of a series of brillian...
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Aug 27 2023 1h 7m
Shipwreck, mutiny and murder
This is the story of Anson's voyage around the ...
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Jul 5 2023 1h 1m
Sharp and Sumner: 6 Japanese movies
Jasper Sharp is probably the UK's leading exper...
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May 3 2023 1h 22m
McWhorter and Holland - On dinosaurs
John McWhorter and Tom Holland are a perfect pairing...
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Apr 29 2023 53m
Acre 1291 - the final showdown
Roger Crowley is one on the best (if not the best) n...
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Mar 19 2023 1h 17m
The Salem Witch trials with Stacy Schiff
Stacy Schiff is one of America's most acclaimed...
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Feb 17 2023 56m
Suleiman the Magnificent with Christopher de Bellaigue
Christopher de Bellaigue's book The Lion House ...
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Feb 11 2023 57m
Slavery in the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages
Professor David Abulafia's wonderful book The G...
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Jan 27 2023 1h 11m
Talking movies with Scott Sumner
Scott Sumner is an economist with a well known and m...
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Dec 5 2022 1h 1m
The war against Antony and Cleopatra
I have always found the war Octavian fought against ...
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Nov 29 2022 1h 9m
Anna Keay on the Restless Republic (Britain after the death of Charles I)
Anna Keay's book The Restless Republic is just ...
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Nov 6 2022 59m
The Death of Alexander pt 2 (Perdicass and the crocodiles)
Following on from last week in this episode things r...
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Oct 17 2022 47m
The Death of Alexander Pt 1 - Chaos unfolds
Tristan Hughes has writen a brilliant book about the...
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Oct 4 2022 58m
Gladiator - the movie, the history!
Really thrilled to have Bret Devereaux and Ed Watts ...
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Aug 29 2022 1h 19m
A nuclear exchange
I chatted to Battleship Bean and John Shilling about...
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Aug 12 2022 1h 16m
The Last Emperor of Mexico - part 2
In part 1 of the story Napoleon III persuaded Maximi...
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Jul 31 2022 53m
The Last Emperor of Mexico with Edward Shawcross
Karl Mark called it 'one of the most monstrous ...
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Jul 24 2022 46m
Tulip mania - 1630's Holland goes wild
In the Dutch Republic of the 1630's trading in ...
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Jul 4 2022 49m
A new world order - the Arab invasions of the 7th century
James Howard - Johnston returns to talk about the as...
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Jun 4 2022 1h 27m
Firepower with Paul Lockhart
Paul Lockhart is brilliant on the history of guns (a...
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May 11 2022 1h 28m
Mortal Republic with Edward Watts
Ed Watts is one of the most engaging writers and spe...
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Apr 12 2022 1h 13m
The Korean War - the battle of the Chosin Reservoir
In October 1950 the Americans are racing to the Yalu...
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Mar 22 2022 1h
The Silver Way
Everyone has heard of the Silk Road but this is The...
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Mar 6 2022 1h 22m
The Last Great Siege - Constantinople 1453
The story of the siege of Constantinople in 1453 is ...
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Feb 18 2022 1h 18m