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The Heaton Podcast — 108 episodes

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1

John Major Part 2

2

JJ Hot Take: Keir Starmer Resigns

3

Emergency Broadcast: Starmer in Trouble!

4

An Encounter with Britain's Nuclear Bomb: Operation Grapple

5

John Major as Prime Minister

6

Richard II

7

Welington as a politician.

8

Prime Minister in Crisis : The JJ Hot take

9

January - Trying to make sense of Trump

10

The Battle of Waterloo: Wellington the General

11

Wellington to Waterloo

12

We're Back! Catch up and Duke of Wellington

13

VE Day: The War Ends in Europe

14

Reform's Rise: Reaction to the Council Elections

15

An Ecounter with the House of Lords

16

An Encounter with Admiral Lord Nelson

17

Rise of the Hard Right

18

Arab Israeli Conflict Part 1: the Six Day War of 1967

19

Amazing Grace: John Newton and Slavery

20

Encounter: The Birdman of Auschwitz (draft)

21

BONUS: An Encounter with British Army in the Middle East

22

The Charge of the Light Brigade

23

Why Did the Union Win the Civil War? Featuring Mike Block (corrected version)

24

2024 and All That (corrected version)

25

A Journey into the past through Brown's Hotel in London

26

BONUS: JNJ Hot Take on Alex Salmond

27

The Jacobites and Culloden (Part Two)

28

The Jacobites and the Glorious Forty-Five - Part One

29

BONUS: JJ Hot Take on the Labour Government

30

BONUS: JJ Hot Take on the US Presidential Election

31

Enoch Powell

32

The Morning After the Election

33

The Day Before the General Election of 2024

34

The Corn Laws - How they Broke the Tory Party

35

Napoleon

36

Election 2024 Update

37

The D-Day Landings & Stories from a veteran.

38

The D-Day Dodgers: Anzio 1944

39

The Death of President Lincoln

40

To the ends of the earth - Reflections of a BBC foreign correspondent

41

Mr. Lincoln's Inbox

42

St David's Day Special - The Greatest Welsh Person

43

War in America. "Oh My God it is all over!" Britain defeated

44

War in America. Boston, New York and the Declaration of Independence

45

Road to Revolution - The Boston Tea Party

46

Winston Churchill with Professor David Reynolds

47

JJ on Henry Kissinger

48

A Christmas Day encounter with Charles Dickens

49

The Return of the Dominicans - An encounter with hope

50

Politics John meets Politics Joe (and Olly is there too)

51

Wars of the Roses Part 3: Richard III & the Welsh Connection

52

Wars of the Roses Part 2: Warwick Castle and the Kingmaker.

53

Wars of the Roses Part 1: Richard Duke of York

54

Reflections on Israel and Gaza

55

Henry VIII's Fifth Wife: Catherine Howard

56

Voices from Ukraine

57

The 50th Episode - Looking back at the Year 1973

58

18th Century Ireland with Patrick Stiven

59

Barry Goldwater: The Origins of Trump

60

Confronting our vanishing democracy with Sam Fowles

61

Britain's Future with Sunder Katwala

62

President Jimmy Carter

63

To Sing for a King

64

History of the Six Nations

65

Career in Chemistry with Holly Reeve

66

Lawrence of Arabia

67

Is Globalisation Dead?

68

Devil-Land - Tudor and Stuart England

69

Poland & Ukraine

70

Cameron & Brexit, the inside story

71

The Fall of Singapore in the Second World War

72

The Truss Premiership

73

In conversation with Michael Heseltine

74

Battle of Edgehill - 380th Anniversary

75

Oliver Cromwell

76

Queen Elizabeth II: Life and Legacy

77

Mindu Hornick: Auschwitz Survivor

78

JJ & OROB Return - Johnson, Truss and Gorbachev

79

Empires & Decolonisation with Archie McCusker

80

Willam Gladstone

81

Factionalism in the Court of Henry VIII

82

Great Leaders of France - Power, Personality and Prestige. Part Deux

83

Dominic Sandbrook on Margaret Thatcher

84

Great Leaders of France - Power, Personality and Prestige. Part One

85

The Thucydides Trap: Ukraine and Global Poltics

86

On the ground in Afghanistan

87

An interview with Q

88

Ukraine

89

Nationalism: Good or Bad?

90

Sons of the Conqueror: The Norman Dynasty in England

91

The Impossible Office? Sir Anthony Seldon

92

January podcast trailer

93

2019 General Election with Michael Cox

94

Simon Weston & The Falklands War

95

Francis Fukuyama

96

David Lloyd George

97

Remembrance and the Second World War

98

Ted Heath - Destined to Fail?

99

Andrew Jackson - America's Craziest President?

100

Russian Civil War

101

Richard III

102

British Foreign Policy Since 1945

103

Legacy of Empire Week - Kenya

104

Clement Attlee and Britain's Greatest Government

105

Gettysburg

106

Can Labour win the next election?

107

Tony Blair's Foreign Policy

108

Margaret Thatcher