History Podcasts

The Vienna Secession

Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the Vienna Secession.

05 Jun 2025,·54 mins

Lady Swindlers with Lucy Worsley - Series 2

44. Celia Cooney - Bobbed Haired Bandit

Lucy Worsley explores the world of swindlers, conwomen and hustlers.

03 Jun 2025,·29 mins

Excluded

Why are school exclusions rising, and what happens to children who are excluded?

08 Jun 2025,·28 mins

Postwar

10. India and Empire

The question of self-government for India would have to be confronted when war was over.

20 Jun 2025,·14 mins

The Nazis, the Bomb, and the Woman that Science Forgot

Lise Meitner has a critical decision to make.

06 Jun 2025,·38 mins

History of Coffee (Radio Edit)

Greg and his guests to learn all about the history of coffee.

06 Jun 2025,·28 mins

Marilyn Monroe

Hannah Platt, Janine Harouni and Tony Hawks explore the legacy of Marilyn Monroe

04 Jun 2025,·34 mins

First Emperor of China

How did a teenage king change the course of Chinese history forever?

09 Jun 2025,·53 mins

Titanic: Ship of Dreams

9. The Long Hours Before Dawn

As the ship goes down, rows break out as to whether to go back and search for survivors.

03 Jun 2025,·35 mins

1066: The Norman Conquest (Part 4)

How brutal was the Norman Conquest for England?

06 Jun 2025,·60 mins

Episode 5 - Homecoming

In the award-winning journalist's new book, twin girls, forcibly separated, are re-united.

13 Jun 2025,·14 mins

World War Two’s Rome escape line

How an Irish priest saved thousands of allied prisoners of war and Jews in Rome in WW2

09 Jun 2025,·10 mins

Julius Caesar

Was he really the greatest Roman ruler of all time?

06 Jun 2025,·56 mins

Fidel Castro Part 6: The Cuban Missile Crisis

Stranger-than-fiction plans are in place as the CIA tries everything to assassinate Fidel

04 Jun 2025,·51 mins

June 9 - June 15

Fascinating, surprising and eye-opening stories from the past, brought to life.

11 Jun 2025,·5 mins

Final Days of Sir Walter Raleigh

How Sir Walter Raleigh met his end.

09 Jun 2025,·30 mins

Mystery of the Cheapside Hoard

Where did the greatest cache of Elizabethan and Jacobean jewellery ever found come from?

09 Jun 2025,·48 mins

Discovery of the first exoplanets and the goalie who killed a seagull

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes

07 Jun 2025,·51 mins

Half-Life

8. A Fracture

Joe follows the opening of a public memorial and engages with a private reckoning.

14 May 2025,·29 mins

Section 28: The Anti-Gay Law which Sparked a Movement

What was Section 28, who did it affect and what was the response from the gay community?

08 Jun 2025,·39 mins

Goalie v Gull

How Eddy Treijtel killing a seagull by mistake with a goal kick became football folklore

07 Jun 2025,·10 mins

The Secrets of Royston Cave

Was the cave a Knights Templar hideout, a masonic lodge, or the home of a hermit?

26 May 2025,·80 mins

Peak Danger

8. Only The Mountain Knows

In the long, dark shadow of K2, the surviving climbers try to rebuild their lives.

20 Jan 2025,·30 mins

Episode 5 - Achavanich

The journey along the Great North Road concludes with an archaeological discovery.

25 Apr 2025,·14 mins

Episode 5: Planting Fruit Trees

As the strike grinds to its conclusion, the women ready themselves for battles to come.

30 May 2025,·14 mins

History's Secret Heroes: Series 3

Ita Ekpenyon and the Blitz

Can a Nigerian warden stop a riot from breaking out in a London air raid shelter?

04 Mar 2025,·29 mins

Katrice Lee: A Father’s Story

4. Living in Hope

Richard Lee shares the reality of everyday life and key milestones that have been marked.

27 May 2025,·17 mins

8. Spies, Lies and a Political Prize

Dara Ó Briain and Isy Suttie unravel a strange-but-true tale, with guest Chris Chung.

22 Feb 2025,·28 mins

Series 2

William Wallace

William Wallace takes on the English invaders led by King Edward I!

26 Jul 2023,·16 mins

5. An Honourable History

The Bolton 7 take their fight for justice to one of the highest arenas of law.

25 Feb 2025,·41 mins