I’m a Celeb Special: Gwrych Castle
Gwrych Castle dominates the road into North Wales. A sprawling Victorian ruin on land that belonged to the same family for over 500 years. It is now famous in the UK as the Covid convenient set for "I...
16 Nov 202025min
SAS: Band of Brothers
June 1944: the SAS parachute deep into occupied France, to wreak havoc and bloody mayhem. In a country crawling with the enemy, their mission is to prevent Hitler from rushing his Panzer divisions to ...
15 Nov 202031min
Coventry's Blitz
David McGrory joined me on the podcast to discuss Coventry’s Blitz. On the night of 14 November 1940, a Luftwaffe air raid devastated the city of Coventry.Subscribe to History Hit and you'll get acces...
14 Nov 202022min
The History of Beer with Pete Brown
Pete Brown used to advertise lager for a living, until he realised that writing books about beer was even more fun, and entailed drinking even more beer. He appears regularly on television as a beer e...
13 Nov 202029min
One Family, 600 Years of Farming in England's Lake District
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 pastu...
12 Nov 202019min
The Unknown Warrior
100 years ago today, the Unknown Warrior, a common soldier and an unidentified casualty of war, was buried in Westminster Abbey with all the pomp and ceremony of an empire at its zenith. King George V...
11 Nov 202021min
WW2's Special Ops Sisters
Jean and Patricia Owtram were teenagers when the Second World War broke out. They both served in secret roles, one on the coast intercepting German naval signals, the other running intelligence agents...
10 Nov 202036min
Remembrance Sunday: In Search of My Father
John Watts never knew his father. He was conceived days before his father, Wing Commander Joseph Watts, was killed on a bombing mission over occupied Europe. He never knew that a bomber from his fathe...
8 Nov 202030min
