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π§ Barack Obama with Ben Rhodes
Dan talks to Ben Rhodes, adviser to President Obama, about what it was like within the administration.
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π§ Best of 2019
Tony Blair, Julie McDowall the 'Atomic Hobo', Prof Mary Fulbrook, SAS veterans, Stephen Fry, Akala.... It has been a bumper year on the pod. We've heard why the British Army was doomed to failure in Helmand, what it was like arriving at Bletchley Park in the darkest days of the Second World War, ...
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π§ Best of 2020 Part One
A compilation of the best podcasts of 2020. Part one highlights historians talking about history.
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π§ Best of 2020 Part Two
Part Two: a compilation of the best podcasts of 2020.
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π§ Big Data and History
Dan Hoyer and Peter Turchin joined me on the podcast to talk about the new transdisciplinary field of Cliodynamics, which uses the tools of complexity science and cultural evolution to study the dynamics of historical empires and modern nation-states.
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π§ Big History, The History of Everything with David Christian
The problems the world faces now are ones the whole human race will have to resolve, so David Christian has decided to tell the history of the entire human race from the Big Bang to the present.
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π§ Bitcoin and Crypto: A History
Jamie Bartlett joined me on the podcast to talk about the history of the Bitcoin.
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π§ Brexit, Russia, and Divide & Rule with Steve Analyst
Dan talks to Twitter phenomenon Steve Analyst about the Russia's recent history of interference in the European Community, and how the EC has defended itself from 'divide and rule' tactics.
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π§ British Impeachment
The English invented impeachment. The Founding Fathers of the American Republic settled on the impeachment process for restraining the chief executive in their ideal constitution. The USA looks set to impeach their President. Historian Paul Seaward explains where impeachment originated, how it ha...
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π§ Catalonia
Dr Tim Rees is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter. In this podcast he explains the history of Catalonia.
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π§ Cathy Newman on Bloody Brilliant Women
Dan meets up with Cathy Newman to talk about her fantastic new book, Bloody Brilliant Women, and her career in the eye of the journalistic storm.
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π§ Celebrity
Greg Jenner has given my children so many hours of happiness as the historical brains behind the Horrible History tv shows and movie, not to mention the Homeschool History podcast that it would have been grotesquely unfair not to have him on the show and talk about his new book on the history of ...
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π§ Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk with Joshua Levine
Joshua Levine was the historical advisor on Dunkirk, directed by Christopher Nolan. He is also the author of Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture.
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π§ Coronavirus - Lessons from History
Professor John Oxford is a virologist. He is one of the world's leading experts on influenza. He is a leader in the study of the great Influenza outbreak of 100 years ago that killed upwards of 50 million people around the world. I talked to him today to ask him, what are the key lessons that we ...
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π§ Coronavirus is NOT the Plague
It came from Asia via the Middle East and Italy. But, says 17th Century historian, Rebecca Rideal, the parallels with the Black Death, The Plague, are not helpful. It was great to catch up with Rebecca again on the podcast. She tells me what effect plague had on British people and society when it...
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π§ Coronavirus: Intelligence Failure
The greatest threats we face are climate breakdown and pandemic disease. This was the assessment of security advisers before the Covid outbreak and the last few months have seen the stunning reality of this as the world lurches into a giant economic and political crisis. I am joined by Calder Wal...
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π§ Crowd Sourcing Archaeology From Space with Sarah Parcak
Sarah Parcak is an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and remote sensing expert, who has used satellite imaging to identify potential archaeological sites in Egypt, Rome, and elsewhere in the former Roman Empire. She is the associate professor of Anthropology and director of the Laboratory for...
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π§ Dan, Portsmouth and Aircraft Carriers
Listen to the excitement in Dan's voice as he takes us around Portsmouth and explains the history of aircraft carriers by actually going on the soon-to-be HMS Queen Elizabeth! If you love this episode half as much as Dan did, you'll have a great time and learn a lot
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π§ Diary of an MP's Wife
Sasha Swire joined me on the podcast to talk about her diary, written during the Cameron years. Her husband was an MP and junior minister at the time.
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π§ Directing the Past with Stephen Frears
Stephen Frears is an Oscar winning film director. Frears has directed British films since the 1980s including My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liaisons, High Fidelity, The Queen, Philomena and Florence Foster Jenkins. His most recent film, Victoria and Abdul depicts the real-life relationship b...
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π§ Disinformation and the White Helmets in Syria
Chloe Hadjimatheou joined me on the podcast to talk about the death of James Le Mesurier, the man who co-founded the White Helmets, a Syrian civil defence force who filmed themselves pulling survivors and bodies from the rubble of bombed out buildings.
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π§ Diving in the Solent
Join Dan as he explores an underwater archaeological site in the Solent with Garry Momber from the Maritime Archaeology Trust. They visit the oldest known boat-building (and beefburger-eating) site in the world.
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π§ Division. Corruption. Incompetence: A History of Spain
Professor Paul Preston doesnβt pull his punches. His magisterial new history of modern Spain is called 'A People Betrayed'. He is the greatest living authority on Spain and he is not a fan of how that country had been governed. In this podcast he tells me a sorry story of corruption, war and brut...
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π§ Emergency Podcast: The Notre-Dame Fire with Jonathan Foyle
Dan talks to Jonathan Foyle in order to fully understand the history of the Notre-Dame cathedral, and how devastating this fire really is. Producer/Audio: Peter Curry