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Otto English
Fake Heroes – Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History
Posted August 2023

Graham Smith
Should We Abolish the Monarchy?
Posted August 2023

Elizabeth Winkler, Mark Rylance
Sir Mark Rylance Meets Elizabeth Winkler
Posted June 2023

Martin Puchner
Culture – A New World History | Harvard Professor Martin Puchner
Posted February 2023

Horatio Clare, Anthony Seldon
Horatio Clare Meets Sir Anthony Seldon
Posted December 2022

Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Sebag Montefiore – Live on Stage in London
Posted October 2022

Kate Mosse
Kate Mosse – Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaries
Posted October 2022

Max Hastings
Max Hastings – The Cuban Missile Crisis
Posted October 2022

Frank Dikötter
China After Mao – A Country in Flux and Crisis
Posted September 2022

Sir Lawrence Freedman, Kori Schake
The Politics of Military Operations from Vietnam to Ukraine
Posted September 2022

Thomas Williams
Lost Realms – An Epic New History of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings
Posted August 2022

Yuval Noah Harari, Katherine Rundell
Katherine Rundell Meets Yuval Noah Harari
Posted August 2022

Serhii Plokhy, Viv Groskop
Viv Groskop Meets Serhii Plokhy, Harvard’s Professor of Ukrainian History
Posted July 2022

Anthony Sattin, William Dalrymple
The Wanderers Who Shaped the World
Posted July 2022

Michael Wood, Tony Robinson
In Search of the Dark Ages
Posted July 2022

Chris Patten, Matt Frei
Chris Patten on Hong Kong

Victor Sebestyen
Budapest – Between East and West
Posted June 2022

Robert Baer
The Hunt for the KGB’s Mole
Posted June 2022

Robert Crawford
Eliot After The Waste Land

Antony Beevor, Dan Snow
Antony Beevor – The Russian Revolution
Posted May 2022

Alice Roberts
Buried: An Alternative History of the Dark Ages
Posted May 2022

Ian Morris
Britain – a 10,000 year History
Posted May 2022

Sam Knight, David Malone
The Premonitions Bureau
Posted May 2022

Felipe Fernández-Armesto
The Myth of Magellan
Posted April 2022

Simon Sebag Montefiore, Luke Harding
Ukraine and Russia – The History of the Conflict
Posted March 2022

James Poskett, David Malone
A New Global History of Science
Posted March 2022

Richard Firth-Godbehere
A Human History of Emotion
Posted February 2022

David Wengrow, Yanis Varoufakis
The Dawn of Everything

Sathnam Sanghera, William Dalrymple
Sathnam Sanghera and William Dalrymple - the British in India
Posted December 2021

David Olusoga, Paddy Docherty
Blood and Bronze
Posted December 2021

Charlotte Higgins, Hannah Macinnes
Charlotte Higgins Retells the Greek Myths
Dec 2021

John-Paul Stonard
The Story of Art
Posted November 2021

Beth Shapiro
Life As We Made It
Posted October 2021

Marc Baer
The Ottoman Empire – A Major New History
Posted October 2021

Andrew Roberts, Jonathan Dimbleby
Andrew Roberts and Jonathan Dimbleby on George III
Posted October 2021

Louis Menand
How American Culture Changed the World
Posted September 2021

Dr Tristram Hunt
Tristram Hunt – The Life of Wedgwood
Posted September 2021

Steve Richards
The Prime Ministers We Never Had
Posted September 2021

Helena Merriman
A Daring Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
Posted August 2021

Dr Fern Riddell
Sex: Lessons from History
Posted August 2021

Dominic Sandbrook
Adventures in Time - The Second World War
Posted July 2021

Marc Morris, Dan Snow
A History of the Beginnings of England
Posted June 2021

Natalie Haynes
Pandora’s Jar – Women in the Greek Myths
Posted June 2021

Cat Jarman, William Dalrymple
A New History of the Vikings From Scandinavia to the Silk Road
Posted May 2021

Max Hastings
Max Hastings – Operation Pedestal
Posted May 2021

Serhii Plokhy, Matthew d'Ancona
Nuclear Folly - A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Posted May 2021

Catherine Ostler, Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Duchess Countess – The Woman Who Scandalised a Nation
Posted May 2021

Tim Marshall
The Future of Global Power
Posted April 2021

Malcolm Gladwell, Erica Wagner
Malcolm Gladwell – Bomber Mafia
Posted April 2021

James Hawes
The Complete History of Germany (In One Hour)
Posted April 2021

Jonathan Dimbleby, James Holland
Jonathan Dimbleby – How Hitler Lost the War
Posted April 2021

Tom Higham
A New Story of Our Human Origins
Posted March 2021

John Preston
The Rise and Fall of Robert Maxwell
Posted March 2021

Simon Callow
Film Club: Simon Callow on Citizen Kane
Posted March 2021

Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Sebag Montefiore on Stalin: The Red Tsar
Posted February 2021

Jonty Claypole, Mary Beard
Mary Beard Meets Jonty Claypole - How to Get Tongue Tied
Posted February 2021

James Hawes
The Complete History of England (In One Hour)
Posted January 2021

Simon Schama
Simon Schama – The World in 2021
Posted December 2020

Olivette Otele
Extraordinary Lives – the Untold History of African Europeans
Posted November 2020

Heather Morris
Re-Telling the Stories of the Tattooist of Auschwitz
Posted October 2020

Fredrik Logevall
Uncovering The Real John F Kennedy
Posted September 2020

Charles Spencer, Dan Jones
The White Ship of 1120 - The Cataclysm that Changed English History Forever
Posted September 2020

Rebecca Wragg Sykes, Professor Brian Cox
Neanderthals - Life, Love, and Death in a Lost World - With Brian Cox
Posted September 2020

William Dalrymple
The Anarchy - William Dalrymple on The Rise and Fall of the East India Company
Posted August 2020

Ariana Neumann
My Father’s War – A True Story of Heroism From Nazi-Occupied Berlin
Posted August 2020

Joseph Stiglitz, Jonathan Freedland
Finding the Way Out of Our Age of Unrest – Joseph Stiglitz and Jonathan Freedland
Posted August 2020

Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Albright on life and politics
Posted July 2020

Peter Frankopan, Akala
A new Silk Road for the 21st century
Posted January 2018