In this thrilling episode of Travels Through Time, Owen Matthews takes us back to 1941 to see Richard Sorge, the ‘spy to end all spies’, operating in the most dangerous months of the Second World War.

In this thought-provoking episode of Travels Through Time, historian Kelcey Wilson-Lee takes us to the court of the English King Edward I in 1297 to meet his daughters at a dramatic moment in their lives.

In this invigorating episode of Travels Through Time, the award-winning Zimbabwean novelist Petina Gappah takes us in pursuit of the Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone in the year 1871.

In this episode of Travels Through Time, Marcus du Sautoy The Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford takes us back to the 1830s to meet one of his heroes: the brilliant and tragic Évariste Galois

In this episode of Travels Through Time, Catherine Nixey, author of the international bestseller The Darkening Age, guides Violet Moller back to the ancient city of Alexandria in the year 415. They talk about the simmering tensions between Christians, Jews and Pagans at that time. Among the characters they meet is the gifted, beautiful and powerful Hypatia of Alexandria.

For our Valentine’s Day Special edition of Travels Through Time, we visit Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, to talk to Dr Sophie Ratcliffe about Anna Karenina, Kate Field, Sofia Tolstoy and the year 1876.

In this episode of Travels Through Time, Artemis takes us inside Durham University in a fascinating conversation with one of her tutors, Professor Giles Gaspar. Together they reflect on the year 1215, and attempt to understand some of the most significant political, religious and intellectual developments of the medieval period.

For this insightful and evocative episode of Travels Through Time, Peter Moore heads to the historian Sarah Wise’s flat in central London, to talk about left wing politics, life and labour in the imperial capital in the year 1889.

This deeply moving episode of Travels Through Time, Ariana Neumann tells for the very first time the absolutely extraordinary story of her father, Hans, a young Jewish man from Prague, who managed to outwit the Nazis and survive the Holocaust.

Winston Churchill’s Cook

In this fascinating episode of Travels Through Time, the ‘queen of food historians’ Dr Annie Gray takes us inside Number Ten Downing Street, as the bombs fell in 1940, to meet Winston Churchill’s magnificent cook: Georgina Landemare.

In this episode of Travels Through Time the biographer Francesca Wade takes us to the fringes of London’s Bloomsbury, to explore a fascinating generation of poets, writers and publishers who passed through Mecklenburg Square.

In this panoramic episode of Travels Through Time, the historian Charles Emmerson guides us from Italy to Moscow to and the boisterous beer halls of Munich. He shows us a world of volatile post-war politics and three unforgettable characters: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Vladimir Lenin and Adolf Hitler

Welcome to our Christmas Special episode of Travels Through Time. For this episode we leave the usual format behind for a reflective chat about the past year in the pub. Featuring Peter and Artemis.

In this captivating episode, we venture back to the year 1199 to see Eleanor of Aquitaine, one of the great operators of the High Middle Ages, at the peak of her powers.

In this episode of Travels Through Time we join one of the world’s leading historians, William Dalrymple, who takes us on a tour of 1764 to try and explain how the East India Company became “An empire within an empire”

In this episode of Travels Through Time the historian Dr Violet Moller takes us back to one of the most crucial years of all: 529, when the Roman Empire was in its latter days and a new Christian world was emerging.

In this episode of Travels Through Time, the journalist and historian Simon Heffer guides us through the events of a traumatic year. With debates on conscription, newspaper propaganda, the Battle of the Somme and a change of prime minister, Heffer shows us a Britain on the brink of crisis, yet still oddly resilient to the trials it faces.

Witches, spells, black magic and shape-shifting combine in unsettling ways in this Halloween episode of Travels Through Time.

The year 1862 in Britain was characterised by innovation and dynamism. In London a pioneering engineering project brought commuters the world’s first underground railway. Hot air balloons were soaring in the skies. Yet, as Dr Thomas Waters explains, running in tandem with this modernity was an older, persistent belief in supernatural forces.

Ruthlessness and Richard III: Thomas Penn (1483)

In this dark episode of Travels Through Time, Dr Thomas Penn guides us back to the blackest year of them all, 1483. Richard Duke of Gloucester, has seized power. His rivals, the Woodville faction, have fled for their lives. And the uncrowned Edward V has disappeared, along with his younger brother, into the Tower of London; never to be seen again.

A Lab of One’s Own

The early twenty-first century has seen a blossoming of historical work on the women’s suffrage movement of a century ago. Figures like Emmeline Pankhurst, Kitty Marion and Emily Wilding Davison have been celebrated for their willingness to take on the establishment in the hard-fought quest for equality.