Budapest Ghetto
Born in Budapest in July 1944, Agnes Grunwald-Spier resided in the Ghetto with her mother from November 1944 to January 1945. Having gained degrees in History & Politics and Holocaust Studies, in this...
19 Sep 202022min
What Really Happened on D-Day?
Giles Milton has been researching D-Day from a new perspective - that of the youngsters who were involved in the first wave of the offensive. For this podcast he and Dan discussed his findings, the un...
18 Sep 202027min
Battle of Britain: A British Veteran's View
In this episode, Dan speaks to the late Wing Commander Thomas Neil, who fought in the Battle of Britain. Thomas joined the RAF Volunteer Reserves at the age of 18 and, when the Second World War broke ...
15 Sep 20201h 53min
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
In this short episode, Dan visits Sarajevo on the trail of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, his wife and his assassin, Gavrilo Princip. It was their fatal encounter that led to the outbreak of the First Worl...
13 Sep 20205min
Frontline Nursing in WW1
In amongst the ranks of the heroic female wartime nurses Florence Nightingale and Edith Cavell is a lesserknown Danish woman, Valborg Hjorth. When Dr Jakob Seerup - author, researcher and curator of M...
12 Sep 202021min
The Secret History of the Blitz
In this episode, Joshua Levine provides us with an in depth account of the German offensive against Britain's moral. The actor, barrister and historian offers a study of the whole of the UK in discuss...
11 Sep 202043min
African Americans in WWII: Patriotism and Oppression
In this episode, Dr. Shama Ams places the Black Lives Matter movement and the killing of George Floyd into the historical context of the treatment of African American soldiers during and after WW2. In...
9 Sep 202035min
Spitfire
For this podcast Dan spoke to John Nichol, former Royal Air Force navigator and author of the bestseller 'Spitfire: A Very British Love Story'. They discussed the plane that was so critical to the RAF...
8 Sep 202019min
