History Extra podcast
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History Extra podcast
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The latest news from the team behind BBC History Magazine - a popular History magazine. To find out more, visit www.historyextra.com
Friday 24 June 2022 : In the latest instalment of our monthly series marking the centenary of the BBC, media historian David Hendy talks to Matt Elton about the...
Thursday 23 June 2022 : In the third episode of our podcast series on the end of Roman Britain, David Musgrove looks at how far Britain was a militarised state...
Wednesday 22 June 2022 : Simon Jenkins considers the enigmatic story of the Celts, and asks whether any such people ever actually existed. Speaking with David...
Tuesday 21 June 2022 : Sally Smith considers the contributions made and significant firsts achieved by British women in the field of aviation, from ballooning and...
Monday 20 June 2022 : Claire Jowitt discusses the discovery of a 17th-century shipwreck off the coast of Norfolk Claire Jowitt speaks to Matt Elton about the...
Sunday 19 June 2022 : In our latest everything you wanted to know episode, Dr John Jacob Woolf answers listener questions on Edwardian Britain. Speaking to Ellie...
Friday 17 June 2022 : Half a century on from the Watergate scandal, Clifford Williamson explores its twists and turns, its key players, and its lasting impact on...
Thursday 16 June 2022 : In the second episode of our podcast series on the end of Roman Britain, David Musgrove investigates what life was like for people living in...
Wednesday 15 June 2022 : In the first episode in our series of conversations with winners of the 2022 Dan David Prize, Dr Tyrone Freeman speaks to Helen Carr about...
Tuesday 14 June 2022 : Francesca Stavrakopoulou, author of the Wolfson History Prize shortlisted book God: An Anatomy, discusses what ancient biblical texts tell...
Monday 13 June 2022 : In June 1942, the US and Japanese navies went head to head over a small atoll in the middle of the Pacific ocean. Brendan Simms and Steven...
Sunday 12 June 2022 : Who maintained law and order before the police? When did Britain ban capital punishment – and why? And what are some of the weirdest...
Friday 10 June 2022 : From the “Blitz spirit” invoked in the Covid-19 pandemic, to the 16th-century sense that a lost greatness needed to be recovered,...
Thursday 09 June 2022 : What really happened in Britain as Roman influence waned? Recent research is shaking up our view of the end of imperial rule during the...
Wednesday 08 June 2022 : Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells Spencer Mizen why Eurocentric depictions of the “barbarous” Persians have obscured the achievements of one...
Tuesday 07 June 2022 : Professor Mark Knights discusses how ideas about corruption were transformed in Britain and its empire between 1600 and 1850. Speaking to...
Monday 06 June 2022 : The First World War unleashed an unprecedented wave of violence, and medicine struggled to keep up. British surgeon Harold Gillies was at...
Sunday 05 June 2022 : This week sees Queen Elizabeth II make history as the first ever British monarch to celebrate their platinum jubilee. To mark her 70 years...
Friday 03 June 2022 : Professor Caroline Elkins explains how the British empire was sustained by violence for more than 200 years. Speaking with Rob Attar, she...
Thursday 02 June 2022 : In the final episode of our series on the Black Death, Professor Mark Bailey and Dr Claire Kennan discuss the medieval pandemic’s dramatic...
Wednesday 01 June 2022 : Although medieval Europe was firmly Christian, pagan deities still loomed large in the popular imagination. Rhiannon Davies spoke to Ronald...
Tuesday 31 May 2022 : One hundred years on from Fred Banting and Charles Best’s discovery, Dr Kersten Hall tells the tale of insulin and its vital role in...
Monday 30 May 2022 : Marking the 125th anniversary of the publication of Dracula, Roger Luckhurst tells Ellie Cawthorne why Bram Stoker’s vampire thriller has...
Sunday 29 May 2022 : Were all suspected witches burned at the stake? Was torture a legal way of gaining a confession of practising magic? And which professions...
Friday 27 May 2022 : Professor Alice Roberts explores how cutting-edge developments in archaeology and genetic science can broaden our understanding of what...
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The BBC at 100: political tensions in the 1970s and 80s
In the latest instalment of our monthly series marking the centenary of the BBC, media historian David Hendy talks to Matt Elton about the...
The end of Roman Britain | 3. a militarised state?
In the third episode of our podcast series on the end of Roman Britain, David Musgrove looks at how far Britain was a militarised state...
Who were the Celts?
Simon Jenkins considers the enigmatic story of the Celts, and asks whether any such people ever actually existed. Speaking with David...
Pioneering women pilots: from ballooning spectacles to flying escapades
Sally Smith considers the contributions made and significant firsts achieved by British women in the field of aviation, from ballooning and...
Discovering a lost royal battleship
Claire Jowitt discusses the discovery of a 17th-century shipwreck off the coast of Norfolk Claire Jowitt speaks to Matt Elton about the...
The Edwardians: everything you wanted to know
In our latest everything you wanted to know episode, Dr John Jacob Woolf answers listener questions on Edwardian Britain. Speaking to Ellie...
Watergate at 50: the making of an American scandal
Half a century on from the Watergate scandal, Clifford Williamson explores its twists and turns, its key players, and its lasting impact on...
The end of Roman Britain | 2. life in the late imperial age
In the second episode of our podcast series on the end of Roman Britain, David Musgrove investigates what life was like for people living in...
African-American philanthropy
In the first episode in our series of conversations with winners of the 2022 Dan David Prize, Dr Tyrone Freeman speaks to Helen Carr about...
Reconstructing the body of God
Francesca Stavrakopoulou, author of the Wolfson History Prize shortlisted book God: An Anatomy, discusses what ancient biblical texts tell...
Midway: why America won the WW2 naval battle
In June 1942, the US and Japanese navies went head to head over a small atoll in the middle of the Pacific ocean. Brendan Simms and Steven...
Crime & punishment in Britain: everything you wanted to know
Who maintained law and order before the police? When did Britain ban capital punishment – and why? And what are some of the weirdest...
Has Britain always looked backwards?
From the “Blitz spirit” invoked in the Covid-19 pandemic, to the 16th-century sense that a lost greatness needed to be recovered,...
The end of Roman Britain | 1. introduction, and a mystery mosaic
What really happened in Britain as Roman influence waned? Recent research is shaking up our view of the end of imperial rule during the...
How the Persians were written out of history
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells Spencer Mizen why Eurocentric depictions of the “barbarous” Persians have obscured the achievements of one...
Shady deals & rigged elections: the changing face of corruption
Professor Mark Knights discusses how ideas about corruption were transformed in Britain and its empire between 1600 and 1850. Speaking to...
Plastic surgery: transformed by WW1
The First World War unleashed an unprecedented wave of violence, and medicine struggled to keep up. British surgeon Harold Gillies was at...
Britain’s transformation during the Queen’s lifetime
This week sees Queen Elizabeth II make history as the first ever British monarch to celebrate their platinum jubilee. To mark her 70 years...
Empire of blood
Professor Caroline Elkins explains how the British empire was sustained by violence for more than 200 years. Speaking with Rob Attar, she...
The Black Death | 6. how the pandemic transformed societies
In the final episode of our series on the Black Death, Professor Mark Bailey and Dr Claire Kennan discuss the medieval pandemic’s dramatic...
Fairy queens & giantesses: pagan goddesses in Christian Europe
Although medieval Europe was firmly Christian, pagan deities still loomed large in the popular imagination. Rhiannon Davies spoke to Ronald...
The birth of insulin: a scientific drama
One hundred years on from Fred Banting and Charles Best’s discovery, Dr Kersten Hall tells the tale of insulin and its vital role in...
Dracula at 125: what can a vampire tell us about Victorian Britain?
Marking the 125th anniversary of the publication of Dracula, Roger Luckhurst tells Ellie Cawthorne why Bram Stoker’s vampire thriller has...
Witchcraft: everything you wanted to know
Were all suspected witches burned at the stake? Was torture a legal way of gaining a confession of practising magic? And which professions...
Alice Roberts on unearthing the Romans, Vikings & Anglo-Saxons
Professor Alice Roberts explores how cutting-edge developments in archaeology and genetic science can broaden our understanding of what...
