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Making History

Popular history series where the past connects with the present.

Radio 4,198 episodes

Episodes

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London versus the Rest?
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore historical connections to today's big issues.
04 Feb 2020,28 mins
Film
Tom and Iszi meet the cineasts who help us understand history and the history of cinema.
28 Jan 2020,28 mins
High Flyers
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence look at major milestones in flight in the past millennium.
21 Jan 2020,28 mins
Keeping It In The Family
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore the historical connections to today's big issues.
14 Jan 2020,28 mins
Food
Iszi Lawrence and Tom Holland with the latest research that's Making History.
07 Jan 2020,28 mins
Back to the Future
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore the historical connections to today's big issues.
31 Dec 2019,28 mins
Nationalism
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence look at the roots of nationalism and how it shaped history.
17 Dec 2019,28 mins
The First Draft?
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence are back to explore more historical connections.
10 Dec 2019,28 mins
Battle Lines
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore stories revealed by history’s lines and linkages.
19 Feb 2019,28 mins
Bread Lines
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence look at historical aspects of living on the breadline.
12 Feb 2019,28 mins
Supply Lines
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore stories revealed by history’s lines and linkages.
05 Feb 2019,28 mins
Power Lines
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore stories revealed by history's lines and linkages.
29 Jan 2019,28 mins
Bloodlines
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore the stories revealed by history’s lines and linkages
22 Jan 2019,28 mins
Borders
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore stories revealed by history’s lines and linkages.
15 Jan 2019,28 mins
HS2
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore stories revealed by history’s lines and linkages.
08 Jan 2019,28 mins
01/01/2019
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence consider fascinating aspects of history.
01 Jan 2019,28 mins
The End of Steam. St Edmund. Southall Youth Movement
Tom Holland asks if St Edmund is under a tennis court and hears about the end of steam.
24 Jul 2018,28 mins
The Clockwork Orange Town
Helen Castor discusses dystopia in Thamesmead and Trappist ale from Leicestershire.
17 Jul 2018,28 mins
Church Pews and the Medieval Weather Forecast
Tom Holland takes a back-side view of church architecture.
10 Jul 2018,28 mins
The Radio Ballads, Dorothea Lange, Archaeology of the A14
Helen Castor on the photography of Dorothea Lange and the radio ballads of Charles Parker.
03 Jul 2018,28 mins
Pilgrimage, Overseas cricketers, How the ancients helped build Milton Keynes
Tom Holland presents the programme where the past meets the present.
26 Jun 2018,28 mins
Witches, poison and why the hedgehog was unloved in history
A #metoo moment for 17th-century witches?
19 Jun 2018,28 mins
Coastal change: Overfishing and the death of the seaside
Tom Holland discovers when East Coast fishermen were very much a part of Europe.
12 Jun 2018,28 mins
Dark tourism, World Cup 1938, The mobile library
Helen Castor presents stories from the past with a bearing on issues today.
05 Jun 2018,28 mins
Gambling, Homelessness, Human trafficking
Helen Castor looks back at the gambling crisis of the 18th century.
06 Feb 2018,28 mins
The fight to eradicate polio
Tom Holland on the Coventry polio epidemic, and when Parliament left Westminster.
30 Jan 2018,28 mins
Rage Against The Machine
Helen Castor on history's forerunners of today's concerns about housing and technology.
23 Jan 2018,28 mins
Tasting the Past
Tom Holland on how Romans fed their legions, and the history of street food.
16 Jan 2018,28 mins
Acid Attacks
Actor murdering mania, suffragettes and the martial arts, and Top Town History.
09 Jan 2018,28 mins
1968
The Prague Spring, a French take on our island story, and historical hangovers.
02 Jan 2018,28 mins