Podcast episode

Soviet dissidents who challenged the Kremlin

Burying the enemy: commemorating the world wars' fallen foes.

The Amazons: wonder-women of the ancient world.

How did the Vikings shape Russia and Ukraine?.

Why the Maginot Line couldn't save France in WW2.

Crime fiction history: everything you wanted to know.

How Christianity came to dominate the Roman world.

The spy next door: Moscow's century-long plot to infiltrate the west.

Britain and the Caribbean: from slavery to Black Lives Matter.

From dodos to 'lost' tribes: a history of extinction.

Europe's last pagans.

The tangled legacies of two Americas.

VJ Day: why don't we talk about WW2 in Asia?.

Zoot suits, mashers & New Romantics: the evolution of the dandy.

Maria of Modena: life of the week.

Arson, murder and goddesses: secrets of a Seventh Wonder of the Ancient World.

Forgotten stories from South Asian history.

Was the atomic bomb necessary to end war with Japan?.

Hiroshima: in the shadow of the bomb.

Queen Victoria's secret love affair.

The 300-year battle over free speech.

Power & terror: a history of the nuclear age.

Fun, fear and flatbread: childhood in ancient Rome.

Iron Mountain: the conspiracy that duped America.

Deadly bellringing and fatal bacon: grisly accidental Tudor deaths.

Mein Kampf: Hitler's dark vision for the future.

King vs parliament: the moment that sparked civil war.

Slavery on the medieval Silk Road.

Live Aid: pop's Big Bang moment.

Exploring the medieval world with Marco Polo.