Anne Sebba - biographer, lecturer, journalist and former Reuters foreign correspondent - explains what life was like for women living in Paris during the Nazi occupation between 1940 and 1944.
Dr Helen McCarthy, lecturer in modern British history at the University of Cambridge, joins Dan to discuss the complicated past of working motherhood. They consider how women have been excluded from the world of work as well as attempts to break into it, and how these developments have informed o...
Simon Verdegem is a battlefield archaeologist specialising in the First World War. He is head archaeologist for the crowdfunded archaeology project Hill 80.
Dan talks to Jesse Ransley from the Maritime Archaeological Trust about some of the many fascinating First World War shipwrecks to be found in the waters around Britain.