The History PodcastEpisodes Episode guide

Invisible Hands: The American Century
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David Dimbleby tells the story of the people who made America into a superpower.
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Sixty Years of Hurt
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What do eleven young men tell us about what it means to be English?
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Two Nottingham Lads
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How two British men from Nottingham end up on opposite sides of the war in Ukraine.
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The Arrest
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The frantic final days of an international struggle to apprehend a notorious dictator.
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The House at Number 48
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A suitcase of cryptic clues reveals a stolen fortune, a double identity and a dark past.
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The Magnificent O'Connors
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When love, murder and justice collide in an extraordinary family saga.
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The Fort
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A mission gone wrong. A daring rescue attempt. Told by the soldiers who were there.
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The Second Map
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Kavita Puri charts key moments in Britain's war against Japan in WWII
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Half-Life
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Reading his great-grandfather's memoir, Joe Dunthorne discovers a disturbing confession.
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Invisible Hands
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The story of the free market revolution — through the invisible hands that shaped it.
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The Lucan Obsession Omnibus
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Of all murders in the 20th century, why does this one still captivate us 50 years on?
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The Lucan Obsession
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Of all murders in the 20th Century, why does this one still captivate us 50 years on?
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The Brighton Bomb Omnibus
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How an IRA bomb in Brighton's Grand Hotel almost killed Margaret Thatcher and her Cabinet.
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The Brighton Bomb
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Glenn Patterson on the IRA bomb attempt to kill Margaret Thatcher and change history.
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Escape from the Maze Omnibus
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The disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history.
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Escape from the Maze
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Carlo Gebler navigates story of the Maze Prison's notorious H-Block 7.
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D-Day: The Last Voices
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The story of D-Day, using rediscovered testimonies of those who were there, on all sides.
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Shadow War: China and the West
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Gordon Corera investigates the rise of China in Shadow War: China and the West.
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The House at Number 48 (Omnibus 2)
The House at Number 48 omnibus, part 2.
The Fort. Omnibus 2
A mission gone wrong. A daring rescue attempt. Told by the soldiers who were there.
The Fort. Omnibus 1
A mission gone wrong. A daring rescue attempt. Told by the soldiers who were there.
Why do the British love tea? (from Here For The History)
Historians Alice Loxton and Ben Henderson explore the origins of the British love of tea.
Introducing Everything Is Fake (And Nobody Cares)
Fake is the new real. Jamie Bartlett investigates.