JFK: the man behind the myths
John F Kennedy remains one of America’s most iconic presidents – his life and untimely death wrapped in both mythology and conspiracy. But how much of his legacy is based in reality, and how can his r...
8 Apr 202542min
Fulvia: life of the week
She super-charged Mark Antony's rise to power, whipped up gang violence, went to war with Octavian – and may, just may, have abused Cicero's decapitated head with a hairpin. Here, in conversation with...
7 Apr 202533min
Simon Schama on the Holocaust
Sir Simon Schama is one of the world's leading historians, a bestselling author and a renowned documentary maker. In his latest documentary film, The Road to Auschwitz, he tells the story of the Holoc...
6 Apr 202542min
The 'Scramble for Africa': everything you wanted to know
Between the 1870s and the First World War, European colonialists set their sights on the Africa, making territorial land grabs that consumed nearly the entire continent. Speaking to Ellie Cawthorne, P...
5 Apr 202540min
A Nazi in Chile: did an SS commander work for Pinochet?
What connects a notorious Chilean dictator with an SS commander who played a key role in the Holocaust? This is the question at the heart of a book by the author and lawyer Philippe Sands, which follo...
3 Apr 202547min
Tariffs and trade wars: a history of economic warfare
Trade wars and tariffs have once again been making headlines in recent weeks, as US president Donald Trump's government adopts combative economic policies. But are such approaches really that unusual?...
1 Apr 202530min
Funding cuts and culture wars: history behind the headlines
In the latest episode of our monthly series, Hannah Skoda and Rana Mitter discuss recent headlines about funding cuts to history departments in the UK’s universities - and we hear from Lucy Noakes, pr...
31 Mar 202546min
Why we shouldn't see museum artefacts as 'stolen'
Debates about whether museum artefacts should be returned to the cultures that made them have made headlines several times in recent years. But historian and author Justin M Jacobs explains to Matt El...
30 Mar 202545min
