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The Heaton Podcast — 111 episodes

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1

Turning Points of The Second World War & JJ Reflections

2

JJ Hot Take: An Encounter with an Encounter with Andy Burnham

3

Falklands Encounter with Chris Howe MBE

4

John Major Part 2

5

JJ Hot Take: Keir Starmer Resigns

6

Emergency Broadcast: Starmer in Trouble!

7

An Encounter with Britain's Nuclear Bomb: Operation Grapple

8

John Major as Prime Minister

9

Richard II

10

Welington as a politician.

11

Prime Minister in Crisis : The JJ Hot take

12

January - Trying to make sense of Trump

13

The Battle of Waterloo: Wellington the General

14

Wellington to Waterloo

15

We're Back! Catch up and Duke of Wellington

16

VE Day: The War Ends in Europe

17

Reform's Rise: Reaction to the Council Elections

18

An Ecounter with the House of Lords

19

An Encounter with Admiral Lord Nelson

20

Rise of the Hard Right

21

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

22

Amazing Grace: John Newton and Slavery

23

Encounter: The Birdman of Auschwitz (draft)

24

BONUS: An Encounter with British Army in the Middle East

25

The Charge of the Light Brigade

26

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

27

2024 and All That (corrected version)

28

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

29

BONUS: JNJ Hot Take on Alex Salmond

30

The Jacobites and Culloden (Part Two)

31

The Jacobites and the Glorious Forty-Five - Part One

32

BONUS: JJ Hot Take on the Labour Government

33

BONUS: JJ Hot Take on the US Presidential Election

34

Enoch Powell

35

The Morning After the Election

36

The Day Before the General Election of 2024

37

The Corn Laws - How they Broke the Tory Party

38

Napoleon

39

Election 2024 Update

40

The D-Day Landings & Stories from a veteran.

41

The D-Day Dodgers: Anzio 1944

42

The Death of President Lincoln

43

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

44

Mr. Lincoln's Inbox

45

St David's Day Special - The Greatest Welsh Person

46

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

47

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

48

Road to Revolution - The Boston Tea Party

49

Winston Churchill with Professor David Reynolds

50

JJ on Henry Kissinger

51

A Christmas Day encounter with Charles Dickens

52

The Return of the Dominicans - An encounter with hope

53

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

54

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

55

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

56

Wars of the Roses Part 1: Richard Duke of York

57

Reflections on Israel and Gaza

58

Henry VIII's Fifth Wife: Catherine Howard

59

Voices from Ukraine

60

The 50th Episode - Looking back at the Year 1973

61

18th Century Ireland with Patrick Stiven

62

Barry Goldwater: The Origins of Trump

63

Confronting our vanishing democracy with Sam Fowles

64

Britain's Future with Sunder Katwala

65

President Jimmy Carter

66

To Sing for a King

67

History of the Six Nations

68

Career in Chemistry with Holly Reeve

69

Lawrence of Arabia

70

Is Globalisation Dead?

71

Devil-Land - Tudor and Stuart England

72

Poland & Ukraine

73

Cameron & Brexit, the inside story

74

The Fall of Singapore in the Second World War

75

The Truss Premiership

76

In conversation with Michael Heseltine

77

Battle of Edgehill - 380th Anniversary

78

Oliver Cromwell

79

Queen Elizabeth II: Life and Legacy

80

Mindu Hornick: Auschwitz Survivor

81

JJ & OROB Return - Johnson, Truss and Gorbachev

82

Empires & Decolonisation with Archie McCusker

83

Willam Gladstone

84

Factionalism in the Court of Henry VIII

85

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

86

Dominic Sandbrook on Margaret Thatcher

87

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

88

The Thucydides Trap: Ukraine and Global Poltics

89

On the ground in Afghanistan

90

An interview with Q

91

Ukraine

92

Nationalism: Good or Bad?

93

Sons of the Conqueror: The Norman Dynasty in England

94

The Impossible Office? Sir Anthony Seldon

95

January podcast trailer

96

2019 General Election with Michael Cox

97

Simon Weston & The Falklands War

98

Francis Fukuyama

99

David Lloyd George

100

Remembrance and the Second World War

101

Ted Heath - Destined to Fail?

102

Andrew Jackson - America's Craziest President?

103

Russian Civil War

104

Richard III

105

British Foreign Policy Since 1945

106

Legacy of Empire Week - Kenya

107

Clement Attlee and Britain's Greatest Government

108

Gettysburg

109

Can Labour win the next election?

110

Tony Blair's Foreign Policy

111

Margaret Thatcher