In the first ever episode of our new topical history show, Dan Snow covers subjects from North Korea, to the Tudors, and Santa.
Janina Ramirez meets renowned author Philip Pullman.
Historian Luke Pepera looks at how and why the history of Africa was written out of world history. He also explores how and why, as a consequence of this, the history of Africans in Britain was written out of British history.
Sir Paul Preston CBE comes on the show to discuss Spain's modern history and explain how the stripping away of its empire in the early 19th century had such a catastrophic impact on the country.
