Dan sits down with Max Hastings to talk about the humanity behind warfare, and other wide ranging topics.
Dr. Cat Jarman concludes her month-long series about her favourite, specialist subject - the Vikings.
Cnut the Great became King of England in 1016, King of Denmark in 1018 and King of Norway in 1028, creating the North Sea Empire. In today’s episode Cat talks to Dr. Caitlin Ellis about Cnut, hi...
Dan talks to Jack Hartnell about how people in the Middle Ages saw their own (and other people's) bodies.
Melvyn Bragg talks to Dan about a philosopher and a scholar in the 12th century. Abelard was one of the best known theologians of the medieval era, and his love affair with Héloïse, characterised famously by the letters that they sent to each other are legendary. Producer: Natt Tapley Audio: Pete...
