Battle of Passchendaele
Lyn Macdonald is revered as the great chronicler of the human experience of the Western Front. She recorded interviews with more veterans of the First World War than any other. In this talk at Chalke ...
23 Jun 20211h 4min
From Airman to Attorney General: RAF Navigator Johnny Smythe
Beginning with his birth in 1915 in Sierra Leone, the life of John Henry Smythe OBE MBE is almost unbelievable. From becoming a navigator in the RAF during the Second World War, to being held captive ...
21 Jun 202138min
Battle of Waterloo
After 12 years of battles against the French Republic’s various neighbours, this was Napoleon’s final stand. Although many associate its name with a Eurovision winning hit from 1974, the Battle of Wat...
18 Jun 20211h 1min
Band of Brothers with Damian Lewis
Twenty years after it first aired, Band of Brothers continues to be remembered as a remarkably accurate portrayal of a US parachute infantry company in the European Theater during the Second World War...
16 Jun 202149min
The Nazis & Rommel in the Middle East
Erwin Rommel, the ‘Desert Fox’, known as such because from 1940 until the end of 1942, he led his troops across the deserts of North Africa and towards the Middle East with an often uncanny sense of h...
14 Jun 202145min
WW2: Death Marches
As the Allies advanced through Europe in early 1945, the Nazis embarked on one final escalation of the Holocaust. Hundreds of thousands of prisoners, already weak and starving from their treatment in ...
11 Jun 202125min
How to Be a Spy
Charlie Higson and Ben McIntyre talk about the facts and fictions of working in espionage. Having both encountered the recruitment process for the British Intelligence Services, they discuss the proce...
9 Jun 20211h
After D-Day: The Fight Out Of Normandy
Few days hold such a strong position in history as D-Day. However, as David O'Keefe tells us in this episode, 6 June 1944 was followed by 76 days of continued advances into Normandy. Hear about the po...
7 Jun 202138min
