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Subject to Change
A lot of history episodes and a lot of film episodes. A few other subjects in between!
Education
History
TV & Film
In Sulla's shadow - Ed Watts reappraises Caesar
Professor Ed Watts is a reliably brilliant guest on ...
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Jul 24 2024 1h 1m
Mother Leakey and the Bishop
I can't remember enjoying a story more than Pet...
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Jun 1 2024 56m
Kaldellis on Byzantium - part 2
We cover the miserable tale of the 4th crusade, the ...
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May 2 2024 38m
Anthony Kaldellis on Byzantium (Part 1)
If you have any interest at all in Byzantium or in t...
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Apr 30 2024 1h 5m
Hampton Sides - the last voyage of Captain Cook
Hampton has been on the podcast before and if you ha...
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Apr 8 2024 51m
The Sin Eater
I am a huge fan of Mike Dash's books. We have t...
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Mar 1 2024 48m
Ed West - From the Romans to Alfred the Great
Most people know Ed West for his journalism and in p...
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Feb 8 2024 1h 6m
John McWhorter and Scott Sumner - talking movies
I am a huge fan of John McWhorter and have come to h...
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Jan 21 2024 1h 3m
Dikötter on Dictators
Frank Dikötter returns to the show to talk about dic...
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Jan 7 2024 50m
The Lives of East Germans - Katja Hoyer
If, like me, your idea of East Germany is dominated ...
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Dec 9 2023 1h 18m
Britons never will be slaves?
Giles Milton is one of my favourite authors producin...
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Oct 25 2023 1h 2m
Italy, a ruin - Part 2 of the Adventure of Belisarius and Antonina
David Parnell and I wrap up the story of Belisarius ...
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Oct 6 2023 1h 5m
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