Podcast episode

How the Allies won WW2.

Ancient tips for health and happiness.

Barmier than Bond: Ian Fleming's extraordinary wartime escapades.

Fatherhood: a short history.

CIA book smugglers of the Cold War.

The Renaissance: not such a golden age?.

The Third Reich's first genocide.

What happened in Shakespeare's "lost years"?.

Plague, famine and chivalry: a human history of the 14th century.

Drink, dance, death: wine in ancient Egypt.

Deadly skies: the WW2 mission to fly over the Himalayas.

Royal sisters: the tragic lives of Queen Victoria's granddaughters.

Spiritual showmen: the 1920s occult.

Taking sides: how the Civil War turned friends into enemies.

Were Roman women done dirty by modern translations?.

The Einstein murders.

Gods, demons, witches and exorcists: inside an ancient Assyrian library.

Peaks, perils, and pioneers: the deadly history of mountaineering.

Women who ruled over Africa.

The Taiping Rebellion: everything you wanted to know.

How to choose a pope.

VE Day: a people's history.

What caused the Irish Famine?.

Public vs private: history behind closed doors.

The rise of James VI & I: when Britain went global.

How the English took Manhattan.

The 93 penises of the Bayeux Tapestry.

Sex lives of the Anglo-Saxons.

The great siege of Malta: Knights Hospitaller vs the Ottoman empire.

Suleyman the Magnificent's bid for world domination.