Podcasts tagged with History

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  1. Unexplained

    Strange and mysterious real-life events.

  2. Witness History

    Short stories of big moments from history, told by the people who were there.

  3. You Must Remember This

    Karina Longworth on the secret and forgotten histories of Hollywood.

  4. You're Wrong About

    Sarah Marshall reconsiders people and events that have been miscast.

  5. Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

    Tim Harford tells true stories of awful mistakes, dumb decisions and wild disasters, and what they can teach us. From Pushkin Industries.

  6. Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

    Dan Carlin's epic, multi-hour episodes take an unorthodox look at the past, from the Mongols to the First World War. Episodes are rare but long.

  7. Empire

    William Dalrymple and Anita Anand explore the rise and fall of empires, from the British Empire and the Mughals to the Ottomans and Ancient Rome.

  8. Fall of Civilizations

    Each long episode looks at the collapse of a different civilisation: what happened, why they fell and what it felt like to live through it.

  9. Gastropod

    Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley explore the hidden history and surprising science behind a different food or farming topic every other week.

  10. In Our Time

    The BBC Radio 4 discussion programme on the ideas, people and discoveries that shaped the world, from history and philosophy to science and literature.

  11. Revisionist History

    Malcolm Gladwell revisits something from the past, whether an event, a person, an idea or a song, and asks whether we got it right the first time.

  12. Revolutions

    Mike Duncan's narrative history of the great political revolutions, told season by season, from the English Civil War to Russia.

  13. The Rest Is History

    Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook tell the stories of history's biggest moments, rulers and battles, often in multi-part series.

  14. We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    The Second World War podcast with comedian Al Murray and historian James Holland, covering battles, forgotten fronts and untold stories.

  15. You're Dead to Me

    The comedy podcast that takes history seriously: Greg Jenner is joined by a comedian and an expert historian for each episode. From BBC Radio 4.