All Episodes

Catherine Ostler: The Renoir Girls (1881)

[From the Archive] Philip Stephens: Britain Alone (1962)

Nicholas Walton: The End of the Dutch Empire (1950)

Veronica Buckley: The Hapsburgs and the French Revolution (1790)

Marc Mierowsky: Daniel Defoe the English Spy (1706)

Sean Cunningham: King Henry VII and a Year of Peril (1497)

Peter Moore: The Duke of York Scandal (1809)

Charles King: The Premiere of Handel's Messiah (1742)

Tharik Hussain: Córdoba in the Islamic Golden Age (929)

Sarah Wise: The Undesirables (1947)

[From the archive] Neil Oliver: Skara Brae (2,500 BC)

Vivaldi Special. Hannah French on The Four Seasons

Nikolai Tolstoy on Patrick O'Brian

S.C. Gwynne: R101 – The World’s Largest Flying Machine (1930)

Peter Moore: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

[From the archive] Philip Hoare: Albert and the Whale (1520)

[From the archive] Bernard Cornwell: The Battle of Waterloo (1815)

Lady Hale: The Rights of Women (1925)

[Live] Flora Fraser: Pretty Young Rebel (1746)

Mike Jay: Psychonauts (1885)

David Veevers: How the World Took On the British Empire (1660)

Leah Redmond Chang: Renaissance Queens and the Price of Power (1559)

Andrew Spira: Botticelli, Perugino and Dürer (1500)

Serhii Plokhy: The Collapse of the Soviet Union (1991)

[From the archives] Craig Brown: Beatlemania (1963)

Honor Cargill-Martin: The Notorious Empress Messalina (48 AD)

Tom Whipple: The Battle of the Beams (1940)

Simon Winchester: Knowing What We Know (1924)

Rebecca Struthers: Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots and Watchmaking History (1572)

Luke Turner: Men at War (1943)

Amy Jeffs: Tales from Medieval England (1327)

Nicholas Orme: A Year of Great Promise (1480)

[From the archives] Jane Rogoyska: The Katyń Massacre (1940)

John Darlington: The Port Royal Earthquake (1692)

Katja Hoyer: Beyond The Wall (1973)

Company of Heroes 3: David Milne (1942-4)

Sarah Bakewell: Petrarch and Boccaccio (1348*)

Nandini Das: The first English embassy to India (1616)

[From the archives] Ariana Neumann: When Time Stopped (1944)

Nicholas Spencer: The Great Debate (1860)

Christopher Hadley: Roman Roads and the Invasion of Britain (51 AD)

Don Hollway: The Year of Three Battles (1066)

[From the archives] Rebecca Wragg Sykes: Neanderthals (Eemian)

James Hall: Michelangelo and Leonardo in Florence (1504)

Tania Branigan: Mao and the Cultural Revolution (1966)

Marion Turner: The Wife of Bath (1397)

John Sellars: Aristotle (347 BC)

Simon Akam: The Changing of the Guard (2006)

[From the archives] Diarmaid MacCulloch: Thomas Cromwell (1536)

Tim Clayton: James Gillray and a Revolution in Satire (1792)

Harry Sidebottom: The Mad Emperor (218)

Josiah Osgood: Caesar, Cato and the Fall of the Roman Republic (46BC)

Philip Mansel: Louis XIV, The Sun King (1700)

Paul Hayward: The World Cup (1966)

[Special] The Grigoryan Brothers: Australia

Elizabeth Wilson: Playing with Fire (1921)

Murray Pittock: Scotland Reborn (1967)

Jane Draycott: Antony and Cleopatra (31/30 BCE)

James Holland: D-Day with the Sherwood Rangers (1944)

Giles Milton: Yalta and the Race for Berlin (1945)

Emma J Wells: Heaven on Earth (1220)

Revolutionary Russia: Orlando Figes (1917)

Lucy Wooding: Tudor England (1558)

Damian Dibben: Venice and ‘The Colour Storm’ (1510)

Robert Harris: Act of Oblivion (1660)

Hello Everyone: Season Six of TTT

Suzanne Fagence Cooper: At Home with Jane and William Morris (1862)

[Live] Oskar Jensen: Vagabonds (1815)

Michael Wood: Alfred the Great and the Vikings (878)

Ronan McGreevy: The Assassination of Sir Henry Wilson MP (1922)

Sam Knight: The Premonitions Bureau (1967)

Toby Wilkinson; The Discovery of Tutankhamun’s Tomb (1922)

John Goodall: A History of the Castle (1217)

Felipe Fernández-Armesto; The Year Our World Began (1492)

Paul Fischer: Motion Pictures and the Rise of Modern Britain (1888)

Dr Suzie Sheehy: The Matter of Everything (1932)

Nicholas Guyatt: The Dartmoor Massacre (1815)

Bronwen Riley: Journey to Britannia (130 AD)

Katherine Rundell: John Donne, Super-Infinite (1601)

Mary Wellesley: Hidden Hands (1413)

Nick Higham: The Mercenary River (1837)

Margaret Willes: In The Shadow of St. Paul’s Cathedral (1666)

Daniel Levy: The Great Fire of New York (1835)

Matthew Green: Shadowlands (1965)

Seb Falk: The Astronomer and the Astrolabe (1327)

Nadine Akkerman: Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts (1620)

Anthony Tucker-Jones: Winston Churchill and Victory in North Africa (1943)

Christopher de Bellaigue: Suleyman the Magnificent (1534)

Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen: A History of the Library (1850)

Lulu Jemimah: The Last Pre-Colonial King of Buganda (1885)

Ronen Steinke: The Arab Doctor and the Jewish Girl (1943)

Dr Priya Atwal: The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire (1837)

David Bosco: The Struggle to Rule the Ocean (1982)

Edward Shawcross: The Last Emperor of Mexico (1867)

Roderick Beaton: Herodotus and the Birth of Written History (447 BCE)

Nick Rennison: Scenes from a Turbulent Year (1922)

Christmas with the Three Wise Historians (2021)

Tom Chivers: Journeys into Deep London (62 AD)

Elizabeth Drayson: The Last Muslim Sultan of Granada (1492)

Nigel Pickford: Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the Gloucester (1682)