Jazz in the Trenches, Woad, Notting Hill Carnival

Tom Holland considers jazz in the trenches and the women behind the Notting Hill Carnival.

• 28 mins

30/08/2016

Helen Castor considers if Wren could have helped destroy St Paul's Cathedral.

• 28 mins

06/09/2016

Tom Holland discusses divorce and betrayal in 1st-century Yorkshire.

• 28 mins

13/09/2016

Tom Holland discusses revolution, fire and a secret war.

• 28 mins

20/09/2016

Helen Castor and guests discuss the Black Death and Victorian tabloids.

• 28 mins

The English Pearl Harbour

Tom Holland on the 350th anniversary of the Medway Raid and Domesday uncovered.

• 28 mins

Zombies in Yorkshire?

Medieval mutilation, whisky smuggling and whether humans are getting older.

• 28 mins

The Stonehenge Tunnel

Digging under Stonehenge, the archaeology of a 1960s estate and China's Belt and Road.

• 28 mins

The Dunkirk Spirit

Dunkirk, Churchill, hermits and the archaeology of play.

• 28 mins

Segregation in wartime Britain

Helen Castor on race in wartime, China's Belt and Road and what makes a good museum.

• 28 mins

Jack Monroe and Rationing in the First World War

Rationing in 1917, Silk Roads, Franklin's last voyage and the history of the duffle coat.

• 28 mins

Hadrian's Wall

Hadrian's Wall, Iron Age origins of Heathrow Airport and a Saxon Burial mound in Slough.

• 28 mins

Being Gay Before Gay Lib

Helen Castor on homosexuality in Victoria's Britain and the history of the 'gig' economy.

• 28 mins

The Charter of the Forest

Tom Holland on the world's oldest environmental charter and Iron Age Heathrow.

• 28 mins

Who was Saint Stephen?

Saint Stephen, martyrdom and an Edwardian feast of festive football.

• 28 mins

1968

The Prague Spring, a French take on our island story, and historical hangovers.

• 28 mins

Acid Attacks

Actor murdering mania, suffragettes and the martial arts, and Top Town History.

• 28 mins

Tasting the Past

Tom Holland on how Romans fed their legions, and the history of street food.

• 28 mins

Rage Against The Machine

Helen Castor on history's forerunners of today's concerns about housing and technology.

• 28 mins

The fight to eradicate polio

Tom Holland on the Coventry polio epidemic, and when Parliament left Westminster.

• 28 mins

Gambling, Homelessness, Human trafficking

Helen Castor looks back at the gambling crisis of the 18th century.

• 28 mins

Dark tourism, World Cup 1938, The mobile library

Helen Castor presents stories from the past with a bearing on issues today.

• 28 mins

Coastal change: Overfishing and the death of the seaside

Tom Holland discovers when East Coast fishermen were very much a part of Europe.

• 28 mins

Witches, poison and why the hedgehog was unloved in history

A #metoo moment for 17th-century witches?

• 28 mins

Pilgrimage, Overseas cricketers, How the ancients helped build Milton Keynes

Tom Holland presents the programme where the past meets the present.

• 28 mins

The Radio Ballads, Dorothea Lange, Archaeology of the A14

Helen Castor on the photography of Dorothea Lange and the radio ballads of Charles Parker.

• 28 mins

Church Pews and the Medieval Weather Forecast

Tom Holland takes a back-side view of church architecture.

• 28 mins

The Clockwork Orange Town

Helen Castor discusses dystopia in Thamesmead and Trappist ale from Leicestershire.

• 28 mins

The End of Steam. St Edmund. Southall Youth Movement

Tom Holland asks if St Edmund is under a tennis court and hears about the end of steam.

• 28 mins

01/01/2019

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence consider fascinating aspects of history.

• 28 mins