Showing posts with label Podcasts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Podcasts. Show all posts
Saturday, October 17, 2026

Stalling an Ambush and protecting more than the countryside

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The Rutland Panther and the Blair government's abandoned plan to build an eco-town in the Harborough District both feature in a new nove...
Thursday, October 15, 2026

Lord Bonkers 30 years ago: David Chidgey in the Bird of Liberty

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It's high time (it says here) we saw again what Lord Bonkers was up to 30 years ago. So here's an extract from the diary he contribu...
Tuesday, September 22, 2026

A podcast on Christopher Hill's The World Turned Upside Down

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Let's travel far from Brighton and the Liberal Democrats's autumn conference to an hour-long discussion of Christopher Hill's Th...
Sunday, August 30, 2026

After Dark podcast: Dr Louise Brangan on the Magdalene laundries

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  This edition of the After Dark podcast impressed me because it showed that what we English think we know about Ireland's Magdalene lau...
Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Cliff Richard and the Drifters: Move It

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John Lennon once said: "I think the first English record that was anywhere near anything was Move It by Cliff Richard, and before that ...
Monday, July 20, 2026

After Dark podcast on the R101 airship disaster

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The latest edition of the BBC's After Dark podcast deals with the R101 airship disaster of 1930: "It's like the Titanic, excep...
Tuesday, July 07, 2026

"Ahaarrrr!" A voiceover session from hell

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One of my favourite podcasts is the Chelsea Fancast , which has kept me informed and entertained through my club's recent travails. Its ...
Friday, May 15, 2026

Is The UK heading for divorce? An interview with James Hawes

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I referred to James Hawes's The Shortest History of Ireland  the other day, and I've just sent Liberator a review of the book by fa...
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Monday, May 04, 2026

The Alcopops panic and other booze of the Nineties

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The latest edition of Miranda Sawyer's Talk '90s To Me podcast is well worth a listen. It provides a history of the changes that to...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2026

How Harold Godwinson got to the Battle of Hastings and all that

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What if historians have got one of the most crucial assumptions about one of England’s most pivotal battles completely wrong? asked the Guar...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Oh, those Russians: Antony Beevor on Rasputin and the Romanovs

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The British military historian Sir Antony Beevor is busy promoting his new book Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs . Here he in the g...
Monday, February 23, 2026

Barlow and Watt investigate Jack the Ripper

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Last night I watched the film Murder by Decree on Talking Pictures TV. I've watched it several times because the cast and premise (Sher...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2026

An Observer podcast series on The Real Salt Path

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If you were hooked by Chloe Hadjimatheou's reporting of the questionable veracity of The Salt Path, you may be interested to know that t...
Saturday, January 03, 2026

The Joy of Six 1456

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"At present the Tories are making the same mistakes as their continental cousins – aping the rhetoric and policies of the further right...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

For World Monkey Day: The death of King Alexander of Greece

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Embed from Getty Images Today is World Monkey Day and to mark it here's the sad story of King Alexander of Greece. Alexander came to th...
Friday, November 21, 2025

The murder of Charles Walton at Lower Quinton in 1945

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You can't beat the local by-election previews that Andrew Teale posts every week. Yesterday there was an election in the Lib Dem held Q...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

No, Pope Leo XIV did not mail dead rats to American radio stations to promote The Boomtown Rats

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Embed from Getty Images This claim was made in a recent Word in Your Ear podcast, but sadly it appears not to be true. In fact, the young B...
Monday, November 17, 2025

One of the problems with our political system is that it produces such inexperienced leaders

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In recent days I've come across three instances of people arguing that one of the problems with our political system today is that it pr...
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Friday, November 07, 2025

Not so cosy: A podcast on Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap

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I came across a new podcast today – Garlic & Pearls – via a really good episode on Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap . It's ...
Monday, October 13, 2025

The Conservative Party: A warning from history

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Nick Cohen's guest on the latest edition of his podcast The Lowdown is the novelist and historian James Hawes, who reminds us that histo...