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Science and Technology

Documentaries, interviews and podcasts about the Information Age. From the Technological revolution to Brexit and the Coronavirus Pandemic.

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  • 🎧 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

  • 🎧 Erdogan, Turkey & the Kurds with Hannah Lucinda Smith and Michael Stephens

    Hannah Lucinda Smith is the Times Newspaper correspondant in Istanbul. She has just written THE book on Erdogan. She explains why President Erdogan regards their expressions of national identity as an existential threat to the integrity of the Turkish state. She is followed by Michael Stephens, a...

  • 🎧 General Election Special

    Historian Robert Saunders from Queen Mary University of London talks about the elections in the past that he feels have most resonance and parallels today.

  • 🎧 History Legends: Eric Foner

    Eric Foner joined me on the podcast to talk about Reconstruction, the attempt to reimagine the American Republic following the Civil War.

  • 🎧 History Legends: Michael Wood

    Michael Wood joined me on the podcast to talk about his career as a historian.

  • 🎧 History of Gaming

    Tristan Donovan joined me on the podcast to talk about the history of gaming.

  • 🎧 How AI is Safeguarding Maritime Heritage

    There are more historic artefacts on our ocean floor than there are in every museum in the world put together. Over thousands of years ships carrying every conceivable cargo have sunk in the rivers and oceans of the world. Protecting them is an enormous challenge. Thankfully there are heroes out ...

  • 🎧 How Britain Really Works with Stig Abell

    Dan talks to the editor of the Times Literary Supplement, Stig Abell about what ideas and institutions govern Britain, and how they have developed.

  • 🎧 How Deep History Swung the US Election

    Lewis Dartnell joined me on the podcast to talk about a theory that links the outcome of the US election to geology.

  • 🎧 How Democracy Dies

    I was thrilled to be joined on the podcast by the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, Anne Applebaum. Anne's written extensively on Marxism–Leninism, the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe, and was one of the first American journalists to raise an alarm about antidemocratic ...

  • 🎧 How to Impeach a President with Joshua Matz

    Dan talks to Joshua Matz an Attorney and expert in American constitutional law.

  • 🎧 I'm a Celeb Special: Gwrych Castle

    Gwrych Castle dominates the road into North Wales. A sprawling Victorian ruin on land that belonged to the same family for over 500 years. It is now famous in the UK as the Covid convenient set for "I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here" which launched to huge audiences this weekend. But history fan...

  • 🎧 In Conversation with Astronaut Al Worden

    Al Worden is an American astronaut and engineer who was the Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 15 lunar mission in 1971. He is one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon.

  • 🎧 In Conversation with Darkest Hour Screenwriter Anthony McCarten

    Dan Snow talks to screenwriter Anthony McCarten about bringing the iconic figure of Winston Churchill to the screen in the critically acclaimed Darkest Hour.

  • 🎧 In Conversation with David Baddiel

    David Baddiel talks to Dan about the Second World War, Trump's Mussolini-isms, and why Jim Callaghan makes comedy difficult.

  • 🎧 In Conversation with Richard Herring

    Richard Herring talks to Dan about his career.

  • 🎧 In Conversation with Mary Beard

    Mary Beard OBE, FSA, FBA is an English scholar and classicist. Beard is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge, a fellow of Newnham College, and the Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Ancient Literature. Mary Beard?s new book is entitled 'Women & Power: A Manifesto'.

  • 🎧 In Conversation with Philippa Gregory

    Philippa Gregory, the author who re-invented the historical novel, joined Dan love in front of an audience at Soho Hotel in May 2017 to, explore her writing career and body of work.;Since the publication of her first novel, 30 years ago, Philippa Gregory has reinvigorated the appetite and fascina...

  • 🎧 In Conversation with Sir David Attenborough

    Sir David Attenborough is an English veteran broadcaster and naturalist. He is best known for writing and presenting the nine Life series, in conjuction with the BBC Natural History Unit, which collectively form a comprehensive survey of animal and plant life on the planet. He is also a former se...

  • 🎧 Insurrection in America

    As an armed mob broke into the US Capitol, Dan talked long into the night to his friend and star blogger known only as the Angry Staff Officer. He is a serving officer in the US military and is unable to use his own name for broadcasting. During the course of a long conversation they talked about...

  • 🎧 Is Trump a Fascist? with Kevin Passmore

    Professor Kevin Passmore @PassmoreKevin is professor of History at Cardiff Universty and has written extensively on European History. His book, Fascism: A Very Short Introduction is well worth a read.

  • 🎧 Kashmir with Shashank Joshi

    Shashank Joshi explains the history of tension in the Kashmir province as conflict re-emerges between Pakistan and India.

  • 🎧 Letters to Obama with Jeanne Marie Laskas

    Every day, ten thousand Americans wrote to Obama. Jeanne Marie Laskas tells their story, and the profound impact that these letters had on the President.

  • 🎧 Lord Jonathan Sumption on Justice and Politics

    The cleverest man in Britain weighs in on the state of our politics and the state of the British electoral system. Lord Sumption was a Justice of the Supreme Court, exceptionally sworn in straight from the bar, and he is also a historian of the Hundred Years War, having written a multi-volume his...