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Roman Krznaric, Amy Fairbairn
History for Tomorrow – Lessons from the Past to Inspire the Future of Humanity
Posted July 2024
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Åsne Seierstad, Paul van Zyl
Åsne Seierstad – The Afghans
Posted May 2024
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Tom Baldwin, Marc Stears, Hannah MacInnes
Seven Myths That Changed England – and How to Set Them Straight
Posted May 2024
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Mary Beard, David Mitchell, Hannah MacInnes
David Mitchell and Mary Beard on Rulers and Power
Posted November 2023
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Philippa Gregory, Erica Wagner
Normal Women – 900 Years of Making History
Posted October 2023
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Otto English
Fake Heroes – Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History
Posted August 2023
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Elizabeth Winkler, Mark Rylance
Sir Mark Rylance Meets Elizabeth Winkler
Posted June 2023
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Martin Puchner
Culture – A New World History | Harvard Professor Martin Puchner
Posted February 2023
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Horatio Clare, Anthony Seldon
Horatio Clare Meets Sir Anthony Seldon
Posted December 2022
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Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Sebag Montefiore – Live on Stage in London
Posted October 2022
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Kate Mosse
Kate Mosse – Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaries
Posted October 2022
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Max Hastings
Max Hastings – The Cuban Missile Crisis
Posted October 2022
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Frank Dikötter
China After Mao – A Country in Flux and Crisis
Posted September 2022
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Sir Lawrence Freedman, Kori Schake
The Politics of Military Operations from Vietnam to Ukraine
Posted September 2022
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Thomas Williams
Lost Realms – An Epic New History of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings
Posted August 2022
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Yuval Noah Harari, Katherine Rundell
Katherine Rundell Meets Yuval Noah Harari
Posted August 2022
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Serhii Plokhy, Viv Groskop
Viv Groskop Meets Serhii Plokhy, Harvard’s Professor of Ukrainian History
Posted July 2022
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Anthony Sattin, William Dalrymple
The Wanderers Who Shaped the World
Posted July 2022
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Michael Wood, Tony Robinson
In Search of the Dark Ages
Posted July 2022
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Chris Patten, Matt Frei
Chris Patten on Hong Kong
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Victor Sebestyen
Budapest – Between East and West
Posted June 2022
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Robert Baer
The Hunt for the KGB’s Mole
Posted June 2022
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Robert Crawford
Eliot After The Waste Land
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Antony Beevor, Dan Snow
Antony Beevor – The Russian Revolution
Posted May 2022
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Alice Roberts
Buried: An Alternative History of the Dark Ages
Posted May 2022
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Ian Morris
Britain – a 10,000 year History
Posted May 2022
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Sam Knight, David Malone
The Premonitions Bureau
Posted May 2022
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto
The Myth of Magellan
Posted April 2022
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Simon Sebag Montefiore, Luke Harding
Ukraine and Russia – The History of the Conflict
Posted March 2022
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James Poskett, David Malone
A New Global History of Science
Posted March 2022
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Richard Firth-Godbehere
A Human History of Emotion
Posted February 2022
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David Wengrow, Yanis Varoufakis
The Dawn of Everything
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Sathnam Sanghera, William Dalrymple
Sathnam Sanghera and William Dalrymple - the British in India
Posted December 2021
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David Olusoga, Paddy Docherty
Blood and Bronze
Posted December 2021
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Charlotte Higgins, Hannah Macinnes
Charlotte Higgins Retells the Greek Myths
Dec 2021
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John-Paul Stonard
The Story of Art
Posted November 2021
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Beth Shapiro
Life As We Made It
Posted October 2021
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Marc Baer
The Ottoman Empire – A Major New History
Posted October 2021
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Andrew Roberts, Jonathan Dimbleby
Andrew Roberts and Jonathan Dimbleby on George III
Posted October 2021
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Louis Menand
How American Culture Changed the World
Posted September 2021
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Dr Tristram Hunt
Tristram Hunt – The Life of Wedgwood
Posted September 2021
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Steve Richards
The Prime Ministers We Never Had
Posted September 2021
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Helena Merriman
A Daring Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
Posted August 2021
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Dr Fern Riddell
Sex: Lessons from History
Posted August 2021
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Dominic Sandbrook
Adventures in Time - The Second World War
Posted July 2021
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Marc Morris, Dan Snow
A History of the Beginnings of England
Posted June 2021
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Natalie Haynes
Pandora’s Jar – Women in the Greek Myths
Posted June 2021
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Cat Jarman, William Dalrymple
A New History of the Vikings From Scandinavia to the Silk Road
Posted May 2021
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Max Hastings
Max Hastings – Operation Pedestal
Posted May 2021
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Serhii Plokhy, Matthew d'Ancona
Nuclear Folly - A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Posted May 2021
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Catherine Ostler, Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Duchess Countess – The Woman Who Scandalised a Nation
Posted May 2021
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Tim Marshall
The Future of Global Power
Posted April 2021
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Malcolm Gladwell, Erica Wagner
Malcolm Gladwell – Bomber Mafia
Posted April 2021
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James Hawes
The Complete History of Germany (In One Hour)
Posted April 2021
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Jonathan Dimbleby, James Holland
Jonathan Dimbleby – How Hitler Lost the War
Posted April 2021
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Tom Higham
A New Story of Our Human Origins
Posted March 2021
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John Preston
The Rise and Fall of Robert Maxwell
Posted March 2021
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Simon Callow
Film Club: Simon Callow on Citizen Kane
Posted March 2021
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Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Sebag Montefiore on Stalin: The Red Tsar
Posted February 2021
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Jonty Claypole, Mary Beard
Mary Beard Meets Jonty Claypole - How to Get Tongue Tied
Posted February 2021
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James Hawes
The Complete History of England (In One Hour)
Posted January 2021
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Simon Schama
Simon Schama – The World in 2021
Posted December 2020
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Olivette Otele
Extraordinary Lives – the Untold History of African Europeans
Posted November 2020
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Heather Morris
Re-Telling the Stories of the Tattooist of Auschwitz
Posted October 2020
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Fredrik Logevall
Uncovering The Real John F Kennedy
Posted September 2020
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Charles Spencer, Dan Jones
The White Ship of 1120 - The Cataclysm that Changed English History Forever
Posted September 2020
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Rebecca Wragg Sykes, Professor Brian Cox
Neanderthals - Life, Love, and Death in a Lost World - With Brian Cox
Posted September 2020
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William Dalrymple
The Anarchy - William Dalrymple on The Rise and Fall of the East India Company
Posted August 2020
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Ariana Neumann
My Father’s War – A True Story of Heroism From Nazi-Occupied Berlin
Posted August 2020
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Joseph Stiglitz, Jonathan Freedland
Finding the Way Out of Our Age of Unrest – Joseph Stiglitz and Jonathan Freedland
Posted August 2020
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Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Albright on life and politics
Posted July 2020
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Peter Frankopan, Akala
A new Silk Road for the 21st century
Posted January 2018