Victor Gregg is a veteran of World War Two and the Dresden Bombings, and travelled with Dan to visit Dresden for a documentary. In this episode, Dan discusses Victor's early life, and how he came to join the army.
Sidney Blumenthal joined me on the podcast to talk about the political life of Abraham Lincoln and what his legacy means today.
The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe. It killed nearly a quarter of all Germans and transformed the map of the modern world. Professor Peter Wilson of Oxford University took me on a whistle stop tour through these tumultuous years - from defenestrations in Prague, Westphalia...
John Dickie joined me on the pod to discuss the international story of an organisation which now has 6 million members across the globe. Tracing the origins from local fraternities of stonemasons at the turn of the fifteenth century, John took me on the freemasons' journey from Britain to America...