Queen Anne’s Favourite: The Real Sarah Churchill
Sarah Churchill – Duchess of Marlborough – was the politically influential intimate and then, blackmailer of Queen Anne. Sarah Churchill was vividly brought to life in the film The Favourite, in which...
5 Aug 202024min
Radar and The Winning of WWII: Under a Wartime Sky
As the threat of war with Germany hung over Britain, Winston Churchill gathered the country’s brightest minds at a remote gothic mansion in Suffolk to work together on an invention that could help the...
3 Aug 202026min
Marie Curie on Film
The new film Radioactive charts the life and career of double Nobel Prize-winning physicist/chemist Marie Curie, woven together with the scientific developments and disasters that emerged from her dis...
29 Jul 202030min
The Lost Words of Lady Jane Grey
In July 1553, 16-year-old Lady Jane Grey became de facto Queen of England and Ireland for just nine days. In a new novel Before the Reign Falls, a group of friends renovating an old barn chance upon a...
27 Jul 202022min
The Year Without Summer: 1816 - One Event, Six Lives, A World Changed
In 1815, Mount Tambora in Indonesia erupted, impacting the weather throughout the world. The Year Without Summer imagines its impact on six separate lives, thousands of miles away. They include a fenl...
22 Jul 202020min
Forgery, The French Resistance and The Book of Lost Names
Inspired by an amazing true story from World War II, a young woman with a talent for forgery helps hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis in an unforgettable historical novel. History Hit's Rob We...
20 Jul 202020min
Power and Intrigue in The Court of Henry II: The Irish Princess
In 1166, the King of Leinster in Ireland is forced into exile and throws himself at the mercy of Henry II to help regain his kingdom. His biggest bargaining tool in getting England’s support is his te...
15 Jul 202022min
The Search for a Forgotten Artist: The Pelton Papers
Artist Agnes Pelton lived through the early days of modernism in America. Fame seemed inevitable but the shy and retiring Pelton retreated to a contemplative life in the California desert where she pr...
13 Jul 202022min
