BBC Radio Podcasts from Making History
London versus the Rest?
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore historical connections to today's big issues.
Film
Tom and Iszi meet the cineasts who help us understand history and the history of cinema.
High Flyers
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence look at major milestones in flight in the past millennium.
Keeping It In The Family
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore the historical connections to today's big issues.
Food
Iszi Lawrence and Tom Holland with the latest research that's Making History.
Back to the Future
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore the historical connections to today's big issues.
Nationalism
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence look at the roots of nationalism and how it shaped history.
The First Draft?
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence are back to explore more historical connections.
Battle Lines
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore stories revealed by history’s lines and linkages.
Bread Lines
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence look at historical aspects of living on the breadline.
Supply Lines
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore stories revealed by history’s lines and linkages.
Power Lines
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore stories revealed by history's lines and linkages.
Bloodlines
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore the stories revealed by history’s lines and linkages
Borders
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore stories revealed by history’s lines and linkages.
HS2
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore stories revealed by history’s lines and linkages.
01/01/2019
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence consider fascinating aspects of history.
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.
The Clockwork Orange Town
Helen Castor discusses dystopia in Thamesmead and Trappist ale from Leicestershire.
Church Pews and the Medieval Weather Forecast
Tom Holland takes a back-side view of church architecture.
The Radio Ballads, Dorothea Lange, Archaeology of the A14
Helen Castor on the photography of Dorothea Lange and the radio ballads of Charles Parker.
Pilgrimage, Overseas cricketers, How the ancients helped build Milton Keynes
Tom Holland presents the programme where the past meets the present.
Witches, poison and why the hedgehog was unloved in history
A #metoo moment for 17th-century witches?
Coastal change: Overfishing and the death of the seaside
Tom Holland discovers when East Coast fishermen were very much a part of Europe.
Dark tourism, World Cup 1938, The mobile library
Helen Castor presents stories from the past with a bearing on issues today.
Gambling, Homelessness, Human trafficking
Helen Castor looks back at the gambling crisis of the 18th century.
The fight to eradicate polio
Tom Holland on the Coventry polio epidemic, and when Parliament left Westminster.
Rage Against The Machine
Helen Castor on history's forerunners of today's concerns about housing and technology.
Tasting the Past
Tom Holland on how Romans fed their legions, and the history of street food.
Acid Attacks
Actor murdering mania, suffragettes and the martial arts, and Top Town History.
1968
The Prague Spring, a French take on our island story, and historical hangovers.
Who was Saint Stephen?
Saint Stephen, martyrdom and an Edwardian feast of festive football.
The Charter of the Forest
Tom Holland on the world's oldest environmental charter and Iron Age Heathrow.
Being Gay Before Gay Lib
Helen Castor on homosexuality in Victoria's Britain and the history of the 'gig' economy.
Hadrian's Wall
Hadrian's Wall, Iron Age origins of Heathrow Airport and a Saxon Burial mound in Slough.
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.
Segregation in wartime Britain
Helen Castor on race in wartime, China's Belt and Road and what makes a good museum.
The Dunkirk Spirit
Dunkirk, Churchill, hermits and the archaeology of play.
The Stonehenge Tunnel
Digging under Stonehenge, the archaeology of a 1960s estate and China's Belt and Road.
Zombies in Yorkshire?
Medieval mutilation, whisky smuggling and whether humans are getting older.
The English Pearl Harbour
Tom Holland on the 350th anniversary of the Medway Raid and Domesday uncovered.
20/09/2016
Helen Castor and guests discuss the Black Death and Victorian tabloids.
13/09/2016
Tom Holland discusses revolution, fire and a secret war.
06/09/2016
Tom Holland discusses divorce and betrayal in 1st-century Yorkshire.
30/08/2016
Helen Castor considers if Wren could have helped destroy St Paul's Cathedral.
Jazz in the Trenches, Woad, Notting Hill Carnival
Tom Holland considers jazz in the trenches and the women behind the Notting Hill Carnival.
16/08/2016
Helen Castor discusses Brighton's latest seaside attraction and its links to the past.
09/08/2016
Tom Holland and guests with the history that matters to us today.
02/08/2016
Helen Castor and guests with a new series of the topical history programme.
29/03/2016
Nazi memorials, the real Darby and Joan, and the story of the Bolsheviks in Dublin 1916.
22/03/2016
Terraced houses, the fame of the Flying Scotsman, and why Easter is a moveable feast.
Helen Castor and guests discuss the stories that are Making History
Was English spoken centuries earlier than people thought? Plus a look at Victorian jokes.
08/03/2016
How sex trafficking and moral panic led to the start of the Women's Police Service in 1914
01/03/2016
The latest historical and archaeological research.