History Extra podcast

Caroline Vout takes us under the dust covers and presents the flesh and blood realities of life in ancient bodies

Timothy Phillips talks us through his travels along the Iron Curtain, exploring what the border between east and west was like during the Cold War – and what’s happening there today

Helen Rappaport tells the stories of Russian intellectuals, aristocrats and artists who fled to Paris to begin new lives and escape the 1917 Russian Revolution

Alec Ryrie responds to your questions on the history of unbelief – from ancient atheist accusations to Reformation sceptics

Iwan Morgan discusses how Franklin Delano Roosevelt redefined the role of American president between the Great Depression and the Second World War

Caroline Dodds Pennock reveals the stories of indigenous Americans who travelled to Europe following Columbus’s 1492 voyage

John Willis shares the incredible story of the Allied prisoners of war who witnessed the nuclear attack that brought the Second World War to an end

Joanne Cormac revisits the eye-opening attractions of Surrey Zoo, and reveals what this spectacular pleasure park can tell us about the Victorian age

James Freeman discusses a new project that’s investigating medieval medicinal recipes to uncover how people coped with illness and ailments

From her relationship with royals to Regency attitudes towards female writers, Lizzie Rogers answers listener questions on the world in which Jane Austen wrote