History Extra podcast

As we approach the 1900th anniversary of the building of Hadrian’s Wall, Rob Collins answers listener questions on the Roman fortification.

Stephen Walker tells Rhiannon Davies about the history of animals in space, from fruit flies and monkeys to Laika the Soviet space dog

Annie Gray transports us back to the glamorous dinner parties, dangerous parlour games and decadent desserts of Georgian christmas.

Mary Sarotte reveals how US and Russian leaders squandered the opportunity to forge a lasting partnership at the dawn of the 1990s.

In the latest episode in our new series on the raid on Pearl Harbor, Steve Twomey speaks to Ellie Cawthorne about the immediate run-up to the attack, revealing how inch-perfect Japanese planning and complacent oversights by American military figures co…

In the latest episode in our new series on the raid on Pearl Harbor, Dayna Barnes speaks to Ellie Cawthorne about the United States in the years and months leading up to the attack. They discuss the American perspective on the disintegrating relationsh…

Katherine Harvey discusses whether attitudes to sex in the Middle Ages were really so different from our own.

David M Kennedy answers listener questions about the economic crash that devastated 1930s America.

Robert Sackville-West describes attempts to identify the bodies of the dead after the devastating battles of the First World War

From brawn to plum pottage, Annie Gray takes us back to the raucous world of festive feasting in the medieval and Tudor eras.