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14. Film Club: Titanic (1997)
Titanic Links Five Titanic myths spread by films Our Awards Best Performance Most Egregious Overracting Biggest Plot Flaw Historical Inaccuracy What if Tarantino Made It? Who won the…
13. Nuclear Weapons with David Holloway
We are now in an age of nuclear uncertainty, as wars have broken out around the globe and great powers realign. Britain is apparently a nuclear power but relies on the United States for its…
12. Themistocles with Michael Scott
Themistocles was a leading Athenian politician and general in the early 5th Century. He fought at Marathon in 490BC, and played a leading role during the Greco-Persian Wars and was the lead admiral…
11. Rasputin & Russia with Antony Beevor
The great historian Antony Beevor joins today to discuss his new book, Rasputin, so we talk the mad monk, Russia then and now and Putin’s grip on history. Antony Beevor Links Rasputin And the…
10. Film Club: Master & Commander (2003)
This is the first movie to appear on the History Book Club pod. It's the greatest naval film of all time, the Russell Crowe flick, Master & Commander. In this episode we discuss the lesser of two…
Bonus. Have Podcasts Replaced Books? With Antonia Senior & Roger Moorhouse
A quick bonus for my club members. There has been talk among certain literati that podcasts are replacing books. This is a chat with Roger and Antonia where we address the question head on. Do get in…
9. The Troubles in South Armagh with Toby Harnden
The Troubles may be over, but the legacy lives on, as ongoing legal cases revive past incidents, but one area that has continued to capture the imagination of those interested in this period of…
8. Armies that Made Europe with Barney White-Spunner
Europe is in a bit of a fix, with a belligerent Russia to its East, and the traditional ally and protector disinterested to the West, governments are only starting to think about maybe increasing…
7. Thucydides with Robin Waterfield & Polly Low
Herodotus is known as the father of history, and the next historian out the blocks, Thucydides, took the idea, and it was very much an idea in infancy, and produced a work that is still discussed by…
6. The Atlantic Slave Trade with Hannah Durkin
Today’s episode is a subject that has been prominent in the last few years, the Atlantic slave trade, and today’s book, Survivors is a quite brilliant one that focusses on one voyage in particular,…
5. History Film Club: Saving Private Ryan (1998)
This is the first movie to appear on the History Book Club pod. It's perhaps the most influential film to depict combat in the last thirty years. Steven Spielberg's epic captures the pathos of…
4. Rakes, Whigs and Tories: 17th & 18th century Britain with George Owers
This week we are going back to late 17th and early 18th century Britain, a time when politics as we recognise today was formed: the development of the party system – Whigs and Tories, The Act of…
3. V-Force with Jonathan Glancey
The History Book Club is staying with the 20th century as we discuss the V-Force, the aircraft best exemplified by the Vulcan which was the plane that played a huge role in the James Bond film,…
S1E2 2. Terrorism in the '70s with Jason Burke
After last week’s episode on the Iranian Revolution, I wanted to stay with the 1970s, and so Jason Burke joins me to discuss terrorism during the period, and specifically the Red Army Faction and…
1. The Iranian Revolution with Scott Anderson
As you may be aware, there is an uprising across Iran, and the government has lost the bazaars due to economic collapse. The Bazaars are the middle class shops, and their owners an important…
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