Andrew Simms is an author, analyst and co-director of the New Weather Institute. He comes on the show to explain how history is full of examples where humans have proven their capacity to make radical transformation. He explains why we must be capable of similarly-extraordinary things today to combat the current climate crisis.
Terry Deary, one of the most effective communicators of history ever, spoke to Dan about how Horrible Histories came about, his remarkable publishing career and what sparked his interest in the past.
Tom Holland sits down with Dan to talk about the history of Christianity, and how the religion has shaped morality in Western civilisation to this day.
Dan sat down with Simon Reid-Henry to discuss the evolution of Western democracy across the world from the early 1970s to present day. They talk about the broad decline of the centrist post-war politics over the past decades and the rise of people turning to the more radical ends of the political...
