Podcasts by Making History

London versus the Rest? from 2020-02-04T16:00

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore historical connections to today's big issues.

Recent political convulsions have revealed a rift between the UK's capital and its regions. So this week...

Film from 2020-01-28T16:00

With this year's Oscars imminent, Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence meet the cineasts who help us understand history and the history of cinema.

Hannah Grieg, historical consultant on the Oscar...

High Flyers from 2020-01-21T16:00

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence continue to explore the historical connections behind today's headlines.

As the first electric commercial aircraft takes flight in Vancouver, Tom and Iszi lo...

Keeping It In The Family from 2020-01-14T16:00

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence present the show that explores the historical connections behind today's issues. As fascination with genealogy and our own family history has become almost a nati...

Food from 2020-01-07T17:00

After the feast of the festive season comes the pain of the January fast. Well, to help us better understand our relationship with the food we eat, Making History goes on the spice trail with hi...

Back to the Future from 2019-12-31T17:00

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence present the show that explores the historical connections behind today's issues.

In this New Year's Eve programme, Tom and Iszi look at what history has had t...

Nationalism from 2019-12-17T16:00

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence continue to explore the historical connections behind today's headlines.

Today - with a resurgence in nationalism from Beijing to Barcelona and with flag-fly...

The First Draft? from 2019-12-10T16:00

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence are back to explore the historical connections behind today's issues.

In this programme - The First Draft? After the most tumultuous parliamentary session ma...

Battle Lines from 2019-02-19T16:00

In the last of this series Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence look at the stories around another line in history - battle lines. From the fable of the Nazi invasion across one of Britain's oldest bat...

Bread Lines from 2019-02-12T16:00

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence follow history’s story-laden lines and linkages to uncover connections and compelling stories. This week, with food banks and the effects of austerity never far fr...

Supply Lines from 2019-02-05T16:00

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence follow history’s lines and linkages to uncover connections and compelling stories.

This week - Supply Lines With supply lines after Brexit so much in the news...

Power Lines from 2019-01-29T16:00

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore the stories revealed by history's lines and linkages to uncover connections and compelling stories.

This week - power lines. Tom makes a beeline for ...

Bloodlines from 2019-01-22T16:00

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence follow history’s lines and linkages to uncover connections and compelling stories. This week, with the imminent arrival of a new Royal baby, Tom and Iszi examine bl...

Borders from 2019-01-16T10:27

With Donald Trump’s Mexican wall back in the news, Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence follow history’s lines and linkages to discover how Britain’s borders have been used to separate communities.

HS2 from 2019-01-08T16:00

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence follow history’s lines and linkages to uncover connections and compelling stories.

As the new HS2 rail link between London and Birmingham begins its first con...

01/01/2019 from 2019-01-01T16:00

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence consider fascinating and multi-faceted aspects of history.

The new series of this long-running programme focuses on lines - historical and historic lines and ...

The End of Steam. St Edmund. Southall Youth Movement from 2018-07-24T15:00

Tom Holland is joined by the history podcaster and stand-up comedian Iszi Lawrence.

In Britain's recent past, a long hot summer has often coincided with racial unrest on our streets - 1981...

The Clockwork Orange Town from 2018-07-17T15:00

Helen Castor is joined by Flora Samuel, Professor of Architecture in the Built Environment at the University of Reading.

Tom Holland and Dr Matthew Green take a trip down the Thames to Tha...

Church Pews and the Medieval Weather Forecast from 2018-07-10T15:00

Tom Holland presents the history programme which connects the past with today.

Enthusiasts for Victorian church architecture are furious that the pews designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott ...

The Radio Ballads, Dorothea Lange, Archaeology of the A14 from 2018-07-03T15:00

Helen Castor is joined by Professor Lucy Robinson from the University of Sussex.

A new exhibition at the Barbican in London features the photography of Dorothea Lange who is best known for...

Pilgrimage, Overseas cricketers, How the ancients helped build Milton Keynes from 2018-06-26T15:00

Tom Holland is joined in the studio by Dr Marion Bowman from the Open University.

As more and more people become interested in making a pilgrimage, Tonderai Munyevu - the star of the play ...

Witches, poison and why the hedgehog was unloved in history from 2018-06-19T15:00

Helen Castor is joined in the studio by the historian of witchcraft, Professor Owen Davies.

Historian Tom Charlton travels to Manningtree in North Essex - the scene, in the 17th century, o...

Coastal change: Overfishing and the death of the seaside from 2018-06-12T15:00

Tom Holland is joined by Dr Matthew Green for a programme that's all at sea.

Helen Castor is in Great Yarmouth where local people voted overwhelmingly for Brexit. One of their major gripes...

Dark tourism, World Cup 1938, The mobile library from 2018-06-05T15:00

Helen Castor presents the popular history magazine. She's joined by Dr Jane Hamlett from Royal Holloway University of London.

It's 140 years since the UK prison system was nationalised and...

Gambling, Homelessness, Human trafficking from 2018-02-06T16:00

Helen Castor is joined in the studio by Professor Lucy Robinson from the University of Sussex.

As concerns grow about fixed-odds betting machines on our high streets, Matthew Greent takes ...

The fight to eradicate polio from 2018-01-30T16:00

Tom Holland and guests highlight histories that help us understand more about the background to some of today's important issues.

Helen Castor visits Coventry where, in 1957, one of the la...

Rage Against The Machine from 2018-01-23T16:05

Helen Castor and her guests take us back to moments in the past when social and economic change conspired to produce the historical forerunners of two of today's most pressing issues - technolog...

Tasting the Past from 2018-01-16T16:00

Tom Holland and his guests showcase the stories that are making history.

Helen Castor heads for Wales and new scientific research telling us much more about what the Romans ate and how far...

Acid Attacks from 2018-01-09T16:00

Helen Castor is in the chair for this edition of the long-running history magazine programme. Today, she's joined by the historian of Victorian sex, suffrage and entertainment, Dr Fern Riddell -...

1968 from 2018-01-02T16:00

Tom Holland is joined by Dr Alice Taylor from King's College in London and the historian of pop culture, Travis Elborough.

Helen Castor charts the course of the Prague Spring, that period...

Who was Saint Stephen? from 2017-12-26T16:00

Helen Castor is in the chair for a festive edition of the popular history magazine programme. She's joined by Professor Miri Rubin from Queen Mary, University of London and Tony Collins the Prof...

The Charter of the Forest from 2017-08-01T15:00

Tom Holland with the last in the series, exploring new historical research and resonances.

We travel to Durham to examine the world's oldest piece of environmental legislation, the Charter...

Being Gay Before Gay Lib from 2017-07-25T15:00

Helen Castor takes the hot seat for the programme which shows why history matters.

Today, testimony about coming out before the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1967 and what we know ...

Hadrian's Wall from 2017-07-18T15:00

Tom Holland travels north to mark the 1900th anniversary of Hadrian becoming Emperor, by examining the impact of his biggest legacy in Britain - Hadrian's Wall.

We also take-off for Heathr...

Jack Monroe and Rationing in the First World War from 2017-07-11T15:00

Helen Castor is joined by Dr Sam Willis to discuss food shortages in the First World War, Silk Roads, the history of the duffle coat and Franklin's infamous last voyage.

Food blogger Jack ...

Segregation in wartime Britain from 2017-07-04T15:00

Helen Castor and her guests discuss the history stories that are alive today.

Seventy five years on from the first American bomber raid taking off from British soil to attack targets in Na...

The Dunkirk Spirit from 2017-06-27T15:00

Tom Holland is joined by Dr Dan Todman from Queen Mary University, London and Professor Lucy Robinson at the University of Sussex.

Britain's retreat from Dunkirk in 1940 was a precursor to...

The Stonehenge Tunnel from 2017-06-20T15:00

Tom Holland goes behind the headlines to look at the stories making history.

Helen Castor travels to Salisbury Plain to hear more about a growing row between archaeologists and our leading...

Zombies in Yorkshire? from 2017-06-13T15:00

Helen Castor presents the programme that goes behind the history headlines. Scottish medievalist Fiona Watson and landscape historian Francis Pryor join Helen to discuss medieval mutilations in ...

The English Pearl Harbour from 2017-06-06T15:00

Tom Holland returns with the history magazine that showcases the latest research and demonstrates the relevance of the past in the present day.

The Dutch Are Coming! 350 years on from a da...

20/09/2016 from 2016-10-03T16:11

Helen Castor is joined by Professor Mark Bailey from the University of East Anglia and Dr Eloise Moss from the University of Manchester to discuss the Black Death and Victorian tabloids.

T...

13/09/2016 from 2016-09-13T14:30

Tom Holland is joined by Rebecca Rideal and Dr Tom Lorman to discuss armed revolt, fire and a secret war.

Helen Castor meets up with a witness to the Hungarian Revolution of sixty-years ag...

06/09/2016 from 2016-09-06T14:30

Tom Holland and guests discuss the stories that are Making History.

Helen Castor is joined by Stephen Chalke and former Sussex cricket captain John Barclay to discuss the origins and rathe...

30/08/2016 from 2016-08-30T14:30

Helen Castor is joined by Professor Ted Vallance from the University of Roehampton and Dr Alex Woolf from the University of St Andrews.

On the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London...

Jazz in the Trenches, Woad, Notting Hill Carnival from 2016-08-23T14:30

Tom Holland is joined by Dr Lucy Robinson from the University of Sussex to consider jazz in the trenches, woad and the women behind the Notting Hill Carnival.

Helen Castor meets Dr Michael...

16/08/2016 from 2016-08-16T14:30

Helen Castor is joined by the architectural writer and cultural commentator Travis Elborough and garden historian Deborah Trentham.

Tom Holland takes a ride on Brighton's new attraction, t...

09/08/2016 from 2016-08-09T14:30

Tom Holland considers historical revelations with a resonance today. He's joined by two archaeologists - Professor Carenza Lewis from the University of Lincoln and David Miles, the former Direct...

02/08/2016 from 2016-08-02T14:30

In the first in a new series of the topical history programme Helen Castor is joined by the historian of women in medieval Ireland, Dr Gillian Kenny and Dr Jennifer Redmond who lectures in Twent...

29/03/2016 from 2016-03-29T14:30

Helen is joined in the studio by BBC New Generation Thinker Danielle Thom from the V&A in London and Dr Gillian Kenny from Trinity College in Dublin.

Dr Tom Charlton uncovers some surp...

22/03/2016 from 2016-03-22T15:30

Tom Holland is joined by Dr Nick Beech from Queen Mary University of London and Professor Emma Griffin from the University of East Anglia.

We're in Toxteth, Liverpool, to find out more abo...

Helen Castor and guests discuss the stories that are Making History from 2016-03-15T15:30

Helen Castor is joined by Dr Jane Hamlett from Royal Holloway University of London and the critic and writer Kate Maltby.

Tom Holland travels to Thetford, the ancient capital of East Angli...

08/03/2016 from 2016-03-08T15:00

Tom Holland is joined by Professor Louise Jackson from the University of Edinburgh and journalist Sarah Ditum.

Dr Naomi Paxton explores how sex trafficking and moral panic thed to the birt...

01/03/2016 from 2016-03-01T15:30

The latest historical and archaeological research.