The History Playlist
Dive into the best history podcasts on Sounds & explore the stories that shape our world.
The History Playlist
Welcome to The History Playlist - updated every Wednesday.
Renaissance Medicine (Radio Edit)—You're Dead to Me
Join Greg and his guests to learn all about medicine in Tudor and Stuart England.
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The Sisters Who Took On A Dictator—History's Heroes
A woman and her sisters refuse to bow down to a brutal dictator.
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35. Women Who Dare—Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley, Lady Swindlers with Lucy Worsley - Series 1
Lucy Worsley, Helen Lewis and historian Rosalind Crone discuss audacious Lady Swindlers.
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Statue of Huastec goddess—A History of the World in 100 Objects, Meeting The Gods (1200 - 1400 AD)
Neil MacGregor with the sculpture of a goddess made by the Huastec people of Mexico.
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Handel's Messiah—In Our Time
The origin and development of Handel's great sacred oratorio, premiered in Dublin in 1742.
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Frantz Fanon—Great Lives
The anti-colonial writer and psychiatrist from Martinique is the choice of Lindsay Johns
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5. New Heroes—Rory Stewart: The Long History of..., Heroism
Rory Stewart explores ideas of the hero through time.
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18th-Century Flying Men—Making History
Helen Castor with the programme in which history and historians meet.
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The History Playlist
Updated every Wednesday.
