episodes
A wide range from Tudors to present day. Basically anywhere a story has got stuck in our collective memory but looks, to us, like it would benefit from a re-visit. But you’ll have to be patient with us. These fresh reinterpretations take time to research, argue and record.
If you want more, feel free to browse the photos and sources we’ve included below each episode’s playlist.
We broadcast this celebration of our 60th episode of well-researched reinterpretations of history using the latest academic research but brought to you in an accessible format.
We’ve broadcast over 80 episodes to date and are just starting a new series of 10 episodes called Trading with the Nazis, investigating how Hitler was able to afford his mechanised war after Germany lost WWI.
Scott vs Amundsen – a very British failure
The race for the South Pole in 1911, between Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen and Royal Navy captain, Robert Scott, was mainly about personal pride. Scott’s failure arose not only from a litany of misjudgements, but also from a very toxic kind of Britishness: a haughty refusal to learn, a belief in spirit over common sense and the option for suffering over second place. This is what makes the story historically worth telling - because it would materially contribute to 880,000 service casualties on the battlefields of the Great War [4 episodes]