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Russell HoggI talk to the world's best historians and let them tell the stories. And the stories are wonderful! (And occasionally I change the subject and talk about films, philosophy or whatever!).
Shattered Jewels - Japan's Path to War (3 and final)
Jun 19 • 1h 24m
Manchuria to Pearl Harbor: Japan's Path to War (2)
Jun 11 • 1h 4m
An Alien Game: Japan's Path to War (1)
Jun 3 • 1h 9m
Imperial Twilight: How Trade, Tea, and Opium Led to War
Apr 9 • 1h 18m
The Curse of a King - with Christopher de Bellaigue
Mar 17 • 1h 13m
Anton Howes on Salt (and on much, much more!)
Feb 14 • 1h 18m
Tiberius - a good emperor, a broken man
Jan 15 • 1h 16m
Christ's Samurai with Jonathan Clements - part 2
Dec 27, 2024 • 58m
Christ's Samurai with Jonathan Clements - part 1
Dec 19, 2024 • 58m
In the Kingdom of Ice - with Hampton Sides
Dec 2, 2024 • 55m
Spring Heeled Jack - with Mike Dash
Nov 9, 2024 • 56m
Giles Milton on Nathaniel’s Nutmeg
Oct 7, 2024 • 55m
Rebel Island - Jonathan Clements on the history of Taiwan - part 2
Sep 12, 2024 • 1h 4m
Rebel Island - Jonathan Clements on the history of Taiwan - part 1
Sep 10, 2024 • 50m
The 4th Crusade and the final fall of the Roman Empire - with Ed Watts
Aug 23, 2024 • 1h 24m
In Sulla's shadow - Ed Watts reappraises Caesar
Jul 24, 2024 • 1h 1m
Mother Leakey and the Bishop
Jun 1, 2024 • 56m
Kaldellis on Byzantium - part 2
May 2, 2024 • 38m
Anthony Kaldellis on Byzantium (Part 1)
Apr 30, 2024 • 1h 5m
Hampton Sides - the last voyage of Captain Cook
Apr 8, 2024 • 51m
The Sin Eater
Mar 1, 2024 • 48m
Ed West - From the Romans to Alfred the Great
Feb 8, 2024 • 1h 6m
John McWhorter and Scott Sumner - talking movies
Jan 21, 2024 • 1h 3m
Dikötter on Dictators
Jan 7, 2024 • 50m
The Lives of East Germans - Katja Hoyer
Dec 9, 2023 • 1h 18m
Britons never will be slaves?
Oct 25, 2023 • 1h 2m
Italy, a ruin - part 2 of the Adventures of Belisarius and Antonina
Oct 6, 2023 • 1h 5m
Mao's China with Frank Dikötter
Aug 27, 2023 • 1h 7m
HMS Wager: shipwreck, mutiny and murder
Jul 5, 2023 • 1h 1m
Sharp and Sumner: 6 Japanese movies
May 3, 2023 • 1h 22m
McWhorter and Holland - On dinosaurs
Apr 29, 2023 • 53m
Acre 1291 - the final showdown
Mar 19, 2023 • 1h 17m
The Salem Witch trials with Stacy Schiff
Feb 17, 2023 • 56m
Suleiman the Magnificent with Christopher de Bellaigue
Feb 11, 2023 • 57m
Slavery in the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages
Jan 27, 2023 • 1h 11m
Talking movies with Scott Sumner
Dec 5, 2022 • 1h 1m
The war against Antony and Cleopatra
Nov 29, 2022 • 1h 9m
The Death of Alexander pt 2 (Perdicass and the crocodiles)
Oct 17, 2022 • 47m
The Death of Alexander Pt 1 - Chaos unfolds
Oct 4, 2022 • 58m
Gladiator - the movie, the history!
Aug 29, 2022 • 1h 19m
A nuclear exchange
Aug 12, 2022 • 1h 16m
The Last Emperor of Mexico - part 2
Jul 31, 2022 • 53m
The Last Emperor of Mexico - part 1
Jul 24, 2022 • 46m
Tulip mania - 1630's Holland goes wild
Jul 4, 2022 • 49m
A new world order - the Arab invasions of the 7th century
Jun 4, 2022 • 1h 27m
Firepower with Paul Lockhart
May 11, 2022 • 1h 28m
Mortal Republic with Edward Watts
Apr 12, 2022 • 1h 13m
The Korean War - the battle of the Chosin Reservoir
Mar 22, 2022 • 1h 0m
The Silver Way
Mar 6, 2022 • 1h 22m
The Last Great Siege - Constantinople 1453
Feb 18, 2022 • 1h 18m
Rome against Persia - their final battle
Jan 28, 2022 • 1h 29m
Poggio Bracciolini - an Indiana Jones from the 15th century
Jan 15, 2022 • 58m
Pearl Hart - the Wild West's most notorious woman bandit
Jan 2, 2022 • 50m
The declines of the Roman Empire with Edward Watts
Dec 20, 2021 • 1h 11m
Clive of India with Dr Zareer Masani
Dec 11, 2021 • 58m
Laurence Bergreen on Magellan
Nov 26, 2021 • 53m
With one leap he was free! - stories from Peter Henderson's life
Oct 21, 2021 • 1h 28m
A history of astronomy - from the Babylonians to Galileo
Sep 28, 2021 • 2h 18m
Clocks, Civilization, Power . . . all About Time with David Rooney
Aug 27, 2021 • 1h 18m
When the Shogun's Sumo met Commodore Perry's minstrel show
Jul 24, 2021 • 1h 16m
Amazon the behemoth
Jul 14, 2021 • 1h 5m
Memories of wartime Japan and reflections on the kamikaze
Jun 29, 2021 • 56m
Conquerors - how Portugal built its empire in India
Jun 13, 2021 • 55m
Mike Dash on Batavia's Graveyard
Jun 5, 2021 • 1h 11m
Abulafia and Devereaux - the ancient Mediterranean
May 8, 2021 • 1h 29m
Peter Pomerantsev has stories to tell (and they are all true)
Apr 21, 2021 • 1h 8m
Bean on battleships (and much else besides)
Apr 11, 2021 • 1h 5m
David Goodhart on Head, Hand and Heart and the Road to Somewhere
Apr 3, 2021 • 58m
The Knights of St John against the Turks (and the sheer bloody horror of Lepanto)
Mar 15, 2021 • 1h 10m
Bret Devereaux cancels Saruman. (Helms Deep as ancient military history)
Mar 2, 2021 • 1h 4m
Tom Holland scores 300
Feb 10, 2021 • 52m
The Fate of Rome with Kyle Harper
Jan 29, 2021 • 1h 14m
David Abulafia and the Boundless Sea
Jan 12, 2021 • 1h 15m
Tyler Cowen rates A Separation
Nov 10, 2020 • 1h 18m
Alex Tabarrok versus the People (Parasite and Burning reviewed)
Sep 2, 2020 • 1h 26m
Agnes and Abe Callard are philosophical about films
Jul 22, 2020 • 1h 4m
Philip Matyszak - author of the ancient world
Jul 11, 2020 • 59m
David Friedman - Legal Systems Very Different From Ours
Jun 11, 2020 • 1h 19m
Agnes Callard, Adjective
May 10, 2020 • 59m
Is this the most improved school in Britain?
Mar 16, 2019 • 1h 19m
Patreon, Paypal and the impending gorilla
Feb 10, 2019 • 1h 17m
Stopping smoking - easier than you think
Jan 6, 2019 • 1h 10m
Alternate worlds, same old socialism
Sep 18, 2018 • 59m
Toby Young - in the eye of the Twitter Storm
Sep 15, 2018 • 1h 23m
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