HistoryExtra Podcast

HistoryExtra podcast episodes are released every week, featuring interviews with notable historians on topics spanning ancient history through to recent British to American events. Episodes feature history stories and perspectives on everything from crusading knights to Tudor monarchs and the D-Day landings.

Chris Naunton at BBC History Weekend

Looking for Egypt’s lost tombs

Launching site for V2 rockets in Germany during World War 2. (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

Robert Harris on V2, historical fiction and WW2

Kerri Greenidge, Tom Holland, Suzannah Lipscomb and Michael Wood debate the historical context of 2020

2020: The historians’ verdict

Capture of Helen by Paris, causing the Trojan War, according to Homer. Hand-colored woodcut. (Photo by Alamy)

General ancient history

Women in Greek myths

German writer Hans Fallada (1893–1947), pictured in 1934 with his son Uli in a carriage in Carwitz, Mecklenburg. (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

Germans who resisted the Nazis

Paul Edmondson answers listener questions on the life and work of England’s most famous playwright. (Image by Getty Images)

Shakespeare: everything you wanted to know

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Second World War

A secret WW2 wargame

Bernard Cornwell talks about the final novel in his Last Kingdom series and his next project – a new Sharpe adventure. (Image by Getty Images)

Bernard Cornwell on The Last Kingdom’s finale and the next Sharpe

Dr Johanna Dale explores how the seventh-century Northumbrian king Oswald became an important saint across medieval Europe, on the HistoryExtra podcast. (Image by Getty Images)

Oswald, the many-headed medieval saint

Kiran Klaus Patel tracks the development of the EU over the postwar decades, considering whether it really did bring peace to the continent. (Image by Getty Images)

Has the EU been a success?

Ed Caesar on the HistoryExtra podcast.

An extraordinary Everest adventure

Karen Jones on the Wild West

The Wild West: everything you wanted to know

Howard Williams talks about the ethics of excavation on the HistoryExtra podcast.

Viking warrior women & the ethics of excavating the dead

Margaret MacMillan is professor of History at the University of Toronto and an emeritus professor of International History at Oxford University. (Photo by Getty Images)

War and society: a tangled relationship

Map of the universe, miniature from The Tales of Luqman, Arabic manuscript, 1583. (Photo by Getty Images)

Ingenious medieval science