A lot of history episodes and a lot of film episodes. A few other subjects in between!
The Sin Eater
March 1, 2024
48:00
Ed West - From the Romans to Alfred the Great
Feb. 8, 2024
1:06:15
John McWhorter and Scott Sumner - talking movies
Jan. 21, 2024
1:03:39
Dikötter on Dictators
Jan. 7, 2024
50:39
The Lives of East Germans - Katja Hoyer
Dec. 9, 2023
1:18:27
Britons never will be slaves?
Oct. 25, 2023
1:02:29
Italy, a ruin - part 2 of the Adventures of Belisarius and Antonina
Oct. 6, 2023
1:05:40
Constantinople show its teeth - part 1 of the Adventures of Belisarius and Antonina
Sept. 24, 2023
58:39
Mao's China with Frank Dikötter
Aug. 27, 2023
1:07:50
Shipwreck, mutiny and murder
July 5, 2023
1:01:20
Sharp and Sumner: 6 Japanese movies
May 3, 2023
1:22:03
McWhorter and Holland - On dinosaurs
April 29, 2023
53:05
Acre 1291 - the final showdown
March 19, 2023
1:17:33
The Salem Witch trials with Stacy Schiff
Feb. 17, 2023
56:55
Suleiman the Magnificent with Christopher de Bellaigue
Feb. 11, 2023
57:30
Slavery in the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages
Jan. 27, 2023
1:11:51
Talking movies with Scott Sumner
Dec. 5, 2022
1:01:51
The war against Antony and Cleopatra
Nov. 29, 2022
1:09:11
Anna Keay on the Restless Republic (Britain after the death of Charles I)
Nov. 6, 2022
59:39
The Death of Alexander pt 2 (Perdicass and the crocodiles)
Oct. 17, 2022
47:04
The Death of Alexander Pt 1 - Chaos unfolds
Oct. 4, 2022
58:08
Gladiator - the movie, the history!
Aug. 29, 2022
1:19:57
A nuclear exchange
Aug. 13, 2022
1:16:53
The Last Emperor of Mexico - part 2
July 31, 2022
53:02
The Last Emperor of Mexico with Edward Shawcross
July 24, 2022
46:11
Tulip mania - 1630's Holland goes wild
July 4, 2022
49:16
A new world order - the Arab invasions of the 7th century
June 4, 2022
1:27:58
Firepower with Paul Lockhart
May 11, 2022
1:28:09
Mortal Republic with Edward Watts
April 12, 2022
1:13:01
The Korean War - the battle of the Chosin Reservoir
March 22, 2022
60:27
The Silver Way
March 6, 2022
1:22:09
The Last Great Siege - Constantinople 1453
Feb. 18, 2022
1:18:57
Rome against Persia - their final battle
Jan. 28, 2022
1:29:47
Poggio Bracciolini - an Indiana Jones from the 15th century
Jan. 15, 2022
58:25
Pearl Hart - the Wild West's most notorious woman bandit
Jan. 2, 2022
50:31
The declines of the Roman Empire with Edward Watts
Dec. 20, 2021
1:11:44
Clive of India with Dr Zareer Masani
Dec. 11, 2021
58:10
Laurence Bergreen on Magellan
Nov. 26, 2021
53:21
With one leap he was free! - stories from Peter Henderson's life
Oct. 21, 2021
1:28:20
A history of astronomy - from the Babylonians to Galileo
Sept. 28, 2021
2:18:43
Clocks, Civilization, Power . . . all About Time with David Rooney
Aug. 27, 2021
1:18:52
Talking movies with Freddie deBoer and Abe Callard (Mad Max, OUTIH, Ghostbusters etc)
Aug. 19, 2021
1:01:07
Julian Sancton on the ill fated voyage of the Belgica to the Antarctic in 1898
Aug. 8, 2021
1:05:43
When the Shogun's Sumo met Commodore Perry's minstrel show
July 24, 2021
1:16:24
Amazon the behemoth
July 14, 2021
1:05:23
Memories of wartime Japan and reflections on the kamikaze
June 29, 2021
56:02
Conquerors - how Portugal built its empire in India
June 14, 2021
55:52
Mike Dash on Batavia's Graveyard
June 5, 2021
1:11:23
Abulafia and Devereaux - the ancient Mediterranean
May 8, 2021
1:29:21
Peter Pomerantsev has stories to tell (and they are all true)
April 21, 2021
1:08:16
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