History Extra podcast

Robert Service responds to listener questions and popular search enquiries about the Russian revolutions of 1917, which saw the beginnings of the Communist era.

In a lecture from our 2019 History Weekend in Winchester, Max Hastings tells the dramatic story of the 1943 Dambusters raid.

Neil Price takes us inside the Viking mind to explain how the Norse raiders viewed the world and what drove them to expand across the seasProfessor Neil Price, author of The Children of Ash and Elm, takes us inside the Viking mind.

Helen Fry discusses the top-secret work of MI9, which helped Allied prisoners of war escape during WW2Historian Helen Fry discusses her new book MI9, which reveals how the secret agency helped Allied prisoners of war make it back to Britain

Charles Spencer speaks to Dan Jones about the White Ship disaster, which plunged the English monarchy into chaos 900 years agoBestselling author Charles Spencer speaks to fellow historian Dan Jones about the White Ship disaster

Daniel Lee discusses the life of an ‘ordinary’ member of the SSHistorian Daniel Lee describes how the chance discovery of a cache of documents within a piece of furniture led him to uncover the life of Robert Griesinger, an ‘ordinary’ member of the SS.

Mary Fissell responds to listener questions and popular search enquiries about the history of medicine

Roger Moorhouse delivers a lecture on the German invasion of Poland in 1939

Rowland White explores the Falklands War through the story of the Sea Harrier jump jet.

Turtle Bunbury shares overlooked and ‘disremembered’ stories from Ireland’s past.