Top History Podcasts

Silvio Berlusconi was a charismatic multi-millionaire real-estate mogul who upended the Italian political order and hypnotized an entire nat...

Yes, it's a strange kind of history. And that’s the way Public Historian Greg Jenner likes it. Because, he says, how we sit, where we sit, what we do when we sit and what happens as a result of all that sitting says a lot about humans past and present....

In Search Of Black History with Bonnie Greer brings you face-to-face with the people you n....

Making sense of the British Empire's legacy... through the stories of people who lived through it....

Legendary sprinter Michael Johnson embarks upon a personal journey through the history of protest in sport....

Hollywood and Crime is a ground-breaking true crime series about the most infamous murders in Tinseltown history.

Ordinary people. Extraordinary stories. Listen to history's unsung heroes who changed the world, ....

An audio dramatisation in 6 episodes of With Our Backs To The Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918....

Narrated by award-winning actor Martin Sheen, The Home Front: Life in America During World War....

Why are humans seemingly hardwired to worship gold? It is unique amongst metals: it is malleable, it doesn’t tarnish, and it shines like nothing else. Over time it has come to symbolise wealth and status. It can represent goodness and fidelity but also greed and lust....

Sherlock Holmes is the most portrayed fictional character of all time, and he has been reimagined....

From 'I Have a Dream' to 'Make America Great Again', there are certain speeches that have....

Broadcaster, comedian and writer Mark Dolan interrogates the most intriguing people imaginable....

As long as there have been humans, there have been LGBTQI+ people. From an 18th century gentleman’s servant known as 'Princess Seraphina', to a lesbian punk rocker in Malaysia, challenging her country’s homophobic laws today; queer life always finds a way....

Das 19. Jahrhundert ist eine Zeit voller Entdeckungen und Experimente - besonders in der Medizin. Es ist eine Zeit, in der eine neue Sicht auf den Körper und Krankheiten entsteht, alte Vorstellungen aber immer noch wirken. Eine Zeit voller Widersprüche. Im Mittelpunkt des Podcasts stehen nicht...