1942: USA's Most Devastating Year
The year is 1942; American citizens are still recovering from the surprise military strike on Pearl Harbor, which had intensely impacted morale across the country and brought them into the Second Worl...
30 Jul 202132min
How War Has Changed Throughout History
Every century of recorded history has featured a war. In this episode, Margaret MacMillan joined Dan Snow to discuss the ways in which war has influenced human society. They discussed how, in turn, ch...
28 Jul 202123min
When the World Outlawed War
In August 1928, signatories from France, the United States and Germany signed a treaty outlawing war. This so-called Kellogg-Briand Pact was soon signed by almost every state. Yet, in the century sinc...
26 Jul 202134min
Nazi Scientists & the Space Race
‘One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind’: in July 1969 the United States successfully landed on the moon. It was part of a race into space which continues to this week and Jeff Bezos’ sh...
23 Jul 202130min
Cold War in the Congo: Assassination of Hammarskjöld
In 1961, UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld's plane was shot down as he flew over the Congo. Dag Hammarskjöld was called ‘the greatest statesman of our century’ by John F. Kennedy, but he was found...
21 Jul 202119min
Modern Siege Warfare
Besieging a city is often thought to be an antiquated strategy, lost to technological advances and the complexity of modern conflict. In this episode, however, Major Amos C. Fox tells us about modern ...
19 Jul 202136min
Spanish Civil War & Gerda Taro
Starting off as a novice photographer with strong political motivations, Gerda Taro became well known during the Spanish Civil War, only to sadly become the first woman photojournalist to have died co...
16 Jul 202141min
The Soviet Spy in the Cotswolds
A mother of three living in a small British village, and an accomplished Soviet operative who co-ordinated a network of spies within Britain's atomic weapons programme. In this episode, Ben Macintyre ...
14 Jul 202126min
