Dan talks to Simon Mayo about his new historical novel, Mad Blood Stirring, set in Dartmouth prison at Christmas 1814.
Dan chats to Christer Petley about slavery, focusing on one particularly virulent slave-owner called Simon Taylor, one of the most powerful men in Jamaica in the 18th century.
As Donald Trump threatens a trade war with China, Dan talks to Marc-William Palen from the University of Exeter about tariffs, trade wars and the history of free trade.
Dan explores the Arabia, a steamboat that sank in the Missouri river over a hundred years ago and was then dug up from a Kansas cornfield by David Hawley and turned into a museum. Much of the ships interior was preserved, allowing us to gain a fascinating insight into the lives of those settling ...