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The Aspects of History Podcast
Aspects of History Editor Ollie Webb-Carter interviews historians and authors about the past – from the ancient world right up to the modern day. In each episode, Ollie seeks to get to the bottom of a story or scrutinise a figure from history, in an informative light-hearted way. There are bonus episodes too, on current events and anniversaries to the Aspects of History Film Club.
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Episodes in Chronological Order
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry that Shaped Ancient Greece with Adrian Goldsworthy
Henry VII: Treason and Trust with Dr Sean Cunningham
Stalin’s Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire with Antonia Senior
The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Goring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII, with Jack El-Hai
Sceptred Isle with Helen Carr
Nuremberg: The Translator’s Tale with Helen Fry
Edward I and Wales with David Pilling
Themistocles: The Rise and Fall of Athens’s Naval Mastermind with Michael Scott
Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee with Charlie Higson
Berenice: Queen in Roman Judea with Bruce Chilton
Victory to Defeat with Robert Lyman and Phil Craig
Film Club
Film Club: Das Boot (1981)
Film Club: The Hunt For Red October (1990)
Film Club: We Dive At Dawn (1943)
Film Club: Crimson Tide (1995)
Film Club: Barry Lyndon (1975)
Film Club: The Thin Red Line (1998)
Film Club: Apocalypto (2006)
Film Club: The Report (2019)
Film Club: Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Film Club: Downfall (2004)
Film Club: Cross of Iron (1977)
Film Club: The Third Man (1949)
Bonus Episodes
Body Snatching with History Rage
Summer Reads with The Gang
Hadrian’s Wall with Alistair Tosh
Monarchs with Charlie Higson
Historical Fiction with Jane Thynne, Paul Lay & Miranda Malins
Socrates with Armand D’Angour
Gladiators & Games with Justin Pollard
Books of the Year So Far with The Gang
Boundaries, Borders & Maps with Jonn Elledge
Shardlake and Thomas Cromwell with Peter Wagstaff
The Attack on Pearl Harbor with Alan Bardos
SpyMasters with Antonia Senior