For our Christmas Special the food historian Pen Vogler takes Violet Moller on an indulgent tour back through the centuries. From the arrival of the turkey to the invention of the pudding, she brings to life the history of our favourite Christmas foods.

Charles Spencer takes us back to the greatest maritime disaster in English history - the sinking of the White Ship

John Hillman met the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Time Travellers Guide series, Ian Mortimer, for a tour of the concert halls, stately homes and new industrial beginnings of the Regency Age.

In this episode of Travels Through Time the historian and literary scholar Dr Joseph Hone takes us back to the early eighteenth century. We follow the twists and turns of a three-hundred year old mystery and we meet the man who many consider Britain’s first prime minister: Robert Harley.

In this episode the distinguished historian Professor Judith Herrin takes us back to the year 500 AD. We visit Constantinople in the east, the old crumbliing capital at Rome and then we head to the enchanting city of Ravenna.

In this tense and dramatic episode of Travels Through Time, the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author Damien Lewis takes us back to the scenes of two daring SAS missions in 1944. They were undertaken by SABU-70, a twelve-man, elite unit.

The bravery and sacrifice of the International Brigades is a defining moment of the 20th Century and its fight against fascism.

The run-up to the outbreak of the second world war is a familiar story to many of us – from Chamberlain’s appeasement of Hitler to Churchill’s powerful opposition. Less well-known is the activities of a group of gay MPs who were among the first to warn Britain of the danger the Nazis posed.

In this episode, British ancient historian and academic Professor Paul Cartledge, takes us back to the 'Graeco-Persian Wars' to visit the Battle of Thermopylae and a major event in the history of western civilisation and culture.

In October 1957 the Soviets launched Sputnik 1 and the Space Age began. In this episode of Travels Through Time the astronomer and science writer Stuart Clark takes us back to the dramatic heart of this story.

In this vibrant episode of Travels Through Time the author and academic Michèle Mendelssohn takes us back to 1882 and his lecture tour to the United States of America.

1492 is our destination in this episode of Travels Through Time as Professor Catherine Fletcher guides us through the year in three pivotal moments: two deaths and one discovery.

Today’s interviewee is the extraordinary Holocaust survivor and resistance fighter Selma van de Perre. At the age of ninety-eight, three quarters of a century after she was liberated from Ravensbrück Concentration Camp, Selma tells her remarkable story to the bestselling writer Ariana Neumann.

The author and journalist Hugh Aldersey-Williams takes us back to 1655 and the vibrant heart of the Dutch Golden Age to meet Christiaan Huygens, a figure oddly forgotten by us today but who was once venerated as the greatest mathematician, astronomer and physicist of his age.

How close did we come to a world without the USSR? A world with no Stalin, no KGB, or even Putin today? In this episode of Travels Through Time we head back to 1918 and the Lockhart Plot to find out

Who were the Ottomans? Why have they been so neglected in the traditional Western approach to history? What precisely was their influence on the fabled events of the sixteenth century? In this episode of Travels Through Time, the historian Alan Mikhail takes us back to the monumental events of the year 1517 to find out.

In this fascinating and unusual episode of Travels Through Time the archaeologist and writer Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes takes us back further than we’ve ever been before to meet our extinct kindred: the Neanderthals.

In this politically-charged episode of Travels Through Time, Professor Simon Hall takes us on a tour of the United States in 1960.

In this episode of Travels Through Time, Thomas Levenson guides us back to the scene of one the first and most devastating of all stock market crashes, an event that traumatised Georgian Britain: the South Sea Bubble.

In this fascinating episode of Travels Through Time, Ken Follett, one of the world’s best loved historical novelists, guides us back to the beginning of the last millennium. The year 1002.