Episode 35 OMG Part 2
"How did it come to this?" - This must have been the question the Christian missionaries asked themselves as Hideyoshi followed by successive Tokugawa Shoguns made life unbearable for Christians in Ja...
24 Apr 201641min
Episode 34: OMG Part 1
To Christian missionaries, Japan was a most attractive prospect. Literate, cultured and rich - the Jesuits arrived in Japan in the 1500s and set about a process of conversion: from the lowest peasant ...
9 Okt 201431min
Episode 32: Masterful Inactivity
With the destruction of the Toyotomi at Osaka in 1615, the Tokugawa clan were unrivalled in their domination of Japan. They would establish a Shogunate that would last over 200 years. But how did th...
22 Apr 201435min
Episode 31: End of the Sengoku Jidai
The Siege of Osaka Castle in the winter of 1614-15 and the final Battle for Osaka Castle in the summer of 1615 marks the final chapter in the Sengoku Jidai. After years of rivalry between the forces o...
29 Jan 201331min
Episode 30: For Whom The Bell Tolls
Tokugawa Ieyasu had won the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 and set up organising Japan under his clan's domination. However, safely ensconced in Osaka Castle was Hideyori, son of Hideyoshi; the last of...
11 Nov 201230min
Competition Draw
And the winner is of the Size-L Oda Nobunaga t-shirt - complete with his slogan "Tenka Fubu" (The Realm Subjected to Military Power) is……………………
11 Nov 20121min
Episode 29: My Trip to Japan
I went to Japan with 25 students and 2 other teachers. In this podcast I'll tell you where we went with a particular emphasis on the historical dimension (obviously!) and *drum roll* I bought you a p...
16 Okt 201241min
Episode 28: Sekigahara
With Hideyoshi's body barely cold, the plotting and scheming began in earnest. This was the complete opposite of what Hideyoshi had hoped and begged for - for the sake of his infant son. But promise...
10 Sep 201231min
