New York Times bestselling author S.C. Gwynne takes us back to October 1930 and the scene of one of the great aviation disasters of the twentieth century. This is the story of the airship R101.

In this special live episode, recorded at the Buckingham Literary Festival last weekend, Flora Fraser takes us to witness the dramatic story of Flora Macdonald.

Mike Jay takes us back to the high Victorian Age to see how drugs were being embraced as one of the exciting new tools of modernity. Meet the psychonauts.

For this episode, Peter ventured up to Angel in central London to speak to the art historian Andrew Spira about three great masters of the Renaissance.

In this week’s episode Peter heads into the Penguin offices in London to speak with Serhii Plokhy about his new book, The Russo-Ukrainian War.

In this episode of Travels Through Time the classicist Honor Cargill-Martin takes Artemis on a tour of the debauched and dangerous world of Roman politics.

Tom Whipple, science correspondent for The Times, takes us back to June 1940 and the start of the Battle of the Beams.

In this episode Violet talks to one of the great writers of creative non-fiction, Simon Winchester, about a significant year in the transmission of knowledge.

The watchmaker Rebecca Struthers takes us back to 1572. In the aftermath of the Ridolfi Plot, England was a nervous place. But one thing did unite Queen Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots. Watches.

Author and journalist Luke Turner takes us on a trip back to 1943 to see a different side of World War 2. What was life really like for the men at war?

In this episode Amy takes us to 1327, a year of high political drama when Edward II was deposed by his wife, Isabella and his teenage son, Edward III was crowned and began his fifty-year reign.

This week the academic historian Nicholas Orme takes us back to 1480. This was, he explains, for the people of England, a year of great promise.

The archeologist John Darlington takes us back to Port Royal on Jamaica in 1692. There, at one of the most notorious locations in the New World, we witness one of the most devastating earthquakes of the early modern age.

In this revealing episode, we walk the streets of 1973 East Berlin and attend some of the city’s most exciting cultural events of the year. 

In this episode we talk to the game developer David Milne about his historical work on the hugely popular real time strategy game Company of Heroes 3. Milne takes us back to the Mediterranean theatre of World War II, from Tobruk in North Africa to Anzio in Italy, as we learn how games developers faithfully evoke the past.

The bestselling and prize-winning author Sarah Bakewell takes us back to the mid-fourteenth century to meet Petrarch and Boccaccio. They were, as Bakewell explains, ‘the first of the great literary humanists’.

The relationship between England and India is deep and complex. In this episode the academic and author of Courting India, Nandini Das, takes us back to a significant moment at the very beginning of this relationship.

This week we tackle the fascinating and complex relationship between science and religion, in the company of the academic and writer Nicholas Spencer.

In this episode we follow a lost Roman road back in time to the very beginning of the occupation of Britain Our guest is the acclaimed writer Christopher Hadley.

1066 was the year that England’s destiny was decided. In this superbly analysed episode, Don Hollway takes us back to the scenes of the three great battles that changed the course of history: Fulford, Stamford Bridge and Hastings.