Dan talks to the Head of Heritage for HS2, Helen Wass, as well as Mike Henderson, about the bodies discovered along the route of this infrastructure project, and what they can tell us about the past.
James Rebanks joined me on the podcast to tell the history of his family farm in the Lake District hills. This was part of an ancient agricultural landscape: a patchwork of crops and meadows, of pastures grazed with livestock, and hedgerows teeming with wildlife. We talk about how it has transfor...
Paul John Darran joined the army 1980. He was ninth generation of his family to do so. The story begins with his ancestor John Carberry joined the Tyrone militia in Ireland in 1795. He later transferred to the regular army and fought in the Peninsula with Wellington. he was killed during the noto...
Shribani Basu is a journalist and historian. She is the author of 'For King and Another Country: Indian Soldiers on the Western Front 1914-1918', 'Victoria and Abdul: The Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant', 'Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan' and 'Curry: The Story of Britain's Favou...