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  • 🎧 Life as a Woman in World War Two with Eve Warton

    Dan meets Eve Warton, a 95-year old who worked as a Wren in the Second World War. She discusses what happened to her, the good and the bad, including the sexual harassment she suffered.

  • 🎧 Lesbianism in World War One

    Dan Snow is joined by Laura Doan to explore female homosexuality in World War One and Two.

  • 🎧 Jock Lewes and the SAS

    John Lewes is the nephew and biographer of Lt. Jock Lewes and author of 'Jock Lewes: Co-Founder of the SAS'.

  • 🎧 Jerusalem and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict with James Barr

    Dan talks to James Barr about the role of Jerusalem in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

  • 🎧 Italy and World War Two with Paul Reed

    Dan talks to Paul Reed about the significance of the Italian invasion in World War Two.

  • 🎧 Hunting the Nazi Gold Train

    Since World War Two there have been rumours that a train full of loot and guns disappeared into a complex of tunnels - part of a secret military project which the Nazis never finished. At the time the Soviet Red Army was advancing into the heart of Nazi Germany. Join our adventurer on the first l...

  • 🎧 Human Rights After Hitler

    Dan Plesch is director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS, University of London. He is the author of 'America, Hitler and the UN', co-editor of 'Wartime Origins and the Future United Nations', and has been a frequent contributor to the Guardian and other media. His late...

  • 🎧 How the British Prepared for Nuclear War with Julie McDowall

    In this bonus interview with Julie McDowall, she talks Dan through exactly how the British government prepared for a worst case nuclear scenario. They discuss surviving the attack, the women who planned to provide jigsaws to the survivors and how Britain might remake itself in the aftermath of ar...

  • 🎧 How Should We Remember the First World War? with Dan Todman

    On Armistice Sunday, Dan talks to Dan Todman about remembrance, and the ways in which we think about the events of the First World War.

  • 🎧 How Did Hitler Seize Supreme Power?

    I was delighted to be joined by Nicholas O'Shaughnessy, who took me through the remarkable rise of Adolf Hitler. Starting with his experience of the First World War, Nicholas took me through the events and turning points which turned a failed art student into one of the most powerful men in histo...

  • 🎧 Hong Kong's History: Part 2 with Jason Wordie

    Jason Wordie is an established local historian and writer who conducts historical walks in Hong Kong for Hong Kong residents. Jason has written extensively on Hong Kong, Macao and the surrounding region and he has a regular column in the South China Morning Post.

  • 🎧 Hong Kong Flu

    Professor George Dehner is a world environmental historian who examines the intersection of humans and disease in the modern era. We talked about the great flu pandemics of the later 20th Century, 1968 and 1976.

  • 🎧 HMS President with Dr. Phil Weir

    Dan talks to Dr. Phil Weir about the history of the HMS President and reinstating her place along the Thames.

  • 🎧 Hitler's Titanic with Roger Moorhouse

    Roger Moorhouse is an historian of the Third Reich and WW2, author of The Devils' Alliance, Killing Hitler & Berlin at War. In this fascinating episode, he discusses the worst maritime disaster in history: the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff in 1945.

  • 🎧 Hitler's Secret Palace

    Ksi?? Castle. Medieval castle, baroque palace, Fuhrer HQ. It was seized by the Nazi regime in 1944. It was a part of the Project Riese until 1945 when it was occupied by the Red Army. Countless artefacts were stolen or destroyed by the Soviets.

  • 🎧 Hitler's Genitals with Emma Craigie

    Dan sits down with writer and teacher Emma Craigie to come up with the latest theory on Hitler's genitals.

  • 🎧 Hitler's British Traitors with Tim Tate

    Dan talks to Tim Tate about the uncomfortable history of the Nazi secret service's operations in the UK.

  • 🎧 History Hit Presents 'The Christmas Truce'

    The Christmas Truce was one of the most miraculous episodes in the history of warfare, and History Hit have a major new podcast and film dropping next week. Watch this space…

  • 🎧 Hiroshima with Hirata San

    Dan talks to Hirata San, a survivor of the Hiroshima attacks, and one of the few remaining survivors who speak English, about the Hiroshima bombing.

  • 🎧 Heligoland: Britain, Germany and the Struggle for the North Sea with Jan Rueger

    On 18th April, 1947, British forces set off the largest non-nuclear explosion in history. The target was a small island in the North Sea, thirty miles off the German coast, which for generations had stood as a symbol of Anglo-German conflict - Heligoland. Jan Rueger is Professor of History as Bir...

  • 🎧 Guernsey: Voices of the Occupation

    This year marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Channel Islands. Dan went to meet four people who remember the war years on the islands and hear their experiences of occupation.

  • 🎧 Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp

    Gross-Rosen concentration camp was a Nazi German network of Nazi concentration camps built and operated during World War 2. The main camp was located in the village of Gross-Rosen not far from the border with occupied Poland, in the modern-day Rogo?nica in Lower Silesia, Poland, directly on the r...

  • 🎧 Ghost Hunter!

    Kate Summerscale has written one of the Sunday Time books of the year exploring the world of poltergeists and ghosts in the build up to the Second World War. She came on the podcast to tell us all about Nandor Fodor – a Jewish-Hungarian refugee and chief ghost hunter for the International Institu...

  • 🎧 Getting Inside the Mind of Hitler

    No man knew Adolf Hitler as intimately as his trusted physician, Theodoor Morell. As part of Hitler's inner social circle, he assisted the leader in virtually everything for the entire war years. His unconventional treatments were famed in Germany, and Hitler so trusted the 'miracle' prescription...