On Armistice Sunday, Dan talks to Dan Todman about remembrance, and the ways in which we think about the events of the First World War.
Germans soldiers called it Blitzkatarrh, British soldiers called it Flanders Grippe, but the 1918 pandemic was most commonly known as 'Spanish Flu'. Catherine Arnold is the author of 'Pandemic 1918', and she joined me on the pod to discuss this terrible disease. A disease where victims suffered h...
Dan explores HMS Caroline, the last surviving Royal Navy veteran of Jutland. The team from the HMS Caroline museum and William Hughes, the man in charge of much of its restoration and maintenance, give him a tour.
Dan chats to Tim Mohr, a Club DJ turned writer, who has a very different story of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Tim talks about East German punks, who opposed the oppressive DDR government with their music and their actions, and describes how many of them were arrested because what they stood for ...
