The 2 Best The History Hour Podcast Episodes
1) The Ukraine crisis: an eyewitness history
Former presidents and protestors recount two key moments in the history of the Ukraine crisis - from the historic meeting that ended the USSR to the dramatic anti-government protests in Ukraine in 20...Show More
2) Medicine in World War One
In BBC archive recordings, veterans tell the story of how medical care dealt with the horrors of WW1. Plus when Germany put Nazis on trial, race riots in London's Notting Hill in 1958, and in East Ger...Show More
3) The House of the Spirits and Tracey Emin's unmade bed
Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. This programme contains distressing details.Our guest is Bárbara Fernández Melleda, Assistant Pro...Show More
4) The American Freedom Train and the invention of text messaging
Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Professor Barbara Keys, a specialist in US history at Durham University.We start wit...Show More
5) The history of toys
Max Pearson presents a collection of the week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. We learn about how Play-Doh evolved from a cleaning product to a childhood favourite and the creati...Show More
6) Norway’s sushi contribution and Laurel and Hardy’s Christmas
Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. We learn about how a Norwegian businessman brought salmon sushi to Japan in the 1980s. Our guest...Show More
7) Banky's 'Dismaland' and the Paris climate agreement
Max Pearson presents a collection of Witness History and Sporting Witness episodes.We start with the street artist Banksy, and his 2015 dystopian 'bemusement park'.Then, we talk to roller coaster enth...Show More
8) Introducing The Bomb: Kennedy and Khrushchev
The world is on the brink of nuclear war. How can the Soviet Union and the USA prevent it? Hosts Nina Khrushcheva and Max Kennedy, relatives of the superpower leaders President John F Kennedy and Prem...Show More
9) Nigerian history
Max Pearson presents a collection of Witness History and Sporting Witness episodes, all with a Nigerian theme.We hear two personal stories of the Biafra war, which began in 1967, including the writer ...Show More
10) Literary hoaxes and an underground cathedral
Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service.Our guest is literature lecturer Dr Hetta Howes on major literary hoaxes around the world.We hear ...Show More