History podcasts

[ChevronB19]

I listen to the following, but any other recommendations welcome…!

The Ancients (ok)

The rest is history (brilliant)

In our time (not always history, but consistently good)

Any other tips?

[steve778]

"The History Of English" podcast by Kevin Stroud.
As in the history of the English language. I started listening in lockdown and still find it fascinating.
Steve.

[NuckyThompson]

If you like your world war 2 history. Then ‘we have ways’,with al Murray and James Holland is a brilliant one. Bit of humour thrown in too as it’s al Murray and there’s probably a few hundred to catch up on now

[Jonmx]

Mark Felton's stuff on YouTube appeals to my inner school boy mentality. A mix of 'Commando Comic' style stories backed up with real historical fact. Not a podcast per se, but I find it good to have on in the background when I'm busy gluing my hand to Bolt Action figures.

[Boom78]

I love a good history podcast, my go to ones being:

Rest is history
We have ways of making you talk
The ancients
Gone medieval
Dan snows history hit

The top 2 ‘win’ for me due to the chemistry and humour on show. Excellent.

[gazapc]

Fall of Civilisations. Each episode tracks the rise and inevitable fall of an empire.

Most recent is 6+ hrs on the mongol Empire. Greenland Viking Settlements, Aztecs, and Sumarians are other incredible episodes.

[ChocolateFrog]

Short History of. by the Noiser network is pretty good.

Not as intellectual as some others but still taught me more than any history teacher ever did.

[some bloke]

Dan Carlin does a series called Hardcore History that I find pretty good - there's a few freebies but the rest are pretty good value. He puts a slightly different spin on things. He's done series on the mongols, WW1 & 2, a few shorter ones about slavery, the atomic bomb and 'painfotainment' for instance.

I've also recently discovered a Radio NZ series called Black Sheep, which looks at some of the characters involved in NZ's history.

[oddball1313]

13 minutes to the moon documenting the Apollo mission was really interesting

The Cold war : prelude to the present

Empire - a bit hit and miss depending on the topic, can’t say I find all of it that gripping but some of it quite good

Rest is History although realised I’m not that interested in the Greeks, Romans and origins of Christianity. I think for me it’s starts to get good from about 1700 onwards

[CoupeKid]

I've been enjoying Betwixt The Sheets - a podcast about sex, scandal and society.

It can be a bit hit and miss but the host, Kate Lister, and her guests take a wry look at history, She's doing a mini series on "FBoys" at the moment, having covered Lord Byron and Caligula so far.

Her podcasts with Dr Emma Southeron on the Romans are always worth a listen but she usually gets some learned, if irreverent, academic on to talk about their subject.

Kate: So Emma, the Romans. They were fking nuts weren't they?
Emma: Yes Kate, by our standards they were batst mental.

Don't listen if you want a dry, family friendly, broad sweep of history type podcast but do if you'd like an occasionally sweary education on quite specific subjects. Her guests are experts but aren't likely to appear on BBC2 talking like this!