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  Show 65 - Supernova in the East IV - Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

  Coral Sea, Midway and Guadalcanal are three of the most famous battles of the Second World War. Together they will shift the momentum in the Pacific theater and usher in the era of modern naval and amphibious warfare.
• Witness History Podcast - History as told by the people who were there.play_circle_filled

  The atomic bombs dropped on Japan - Witness History

  The USA dropped its first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6th 1945. Three days later a second atomic bomb was detonated over Nagasaki. The explosion was bigger than the blast at Hiroshima and killed 70,000 people. Louise Hidalgo introduces recordings from the BBC archive.(Photo: Mushroom cloud in the sky. Credit: US Air Force/Press Association)
• In Our Time Podcast - Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideasplay_circle_filled

  Baltic Crusades (Summer Repeat) - In Our Time

  In a programme first broadcast in 2016, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Baltic Crusades, the name given to a series of overlapping attempts to convert the pagans of North East Europe to Christianity at the point of the sword. From the 12th Century, Papal Bulls endorsed those who fought on the side of the Church, the best known now being the Teutonic Order which, thwarted in Jerusalem, founded a state on the edge of the Baltic, in Prussia. Some of the peoples in the region disappeared, either killed or assimilated, and the consequences for European history were profound.WithAleks Pluskowski Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of ReadingNora Berend Fellow of St Catharine's College and Reader in European History at the Faculty of History at the University of CambridgeandMartin Palmer Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education, and CultureProducer: Simon Tillotson
• The History Hour Podcast - An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.play_circle_filled

  Adrift for 76 Days - The History Hour

  Surviving the Atlantic alone in a liferaft, Spain's historic 1960s tourism boom, the death of the infamous Nazi Heinrich Himmler, plus fighting Australia's bushfires and we remember a groundbreaking Latino writer. Photo: Photo: Steve Callahan shows how he hunted fish from his life raft. © Steve Callahan
• Witness Black History Podcast - Interviews with people who were there at key moments in black and civil rights historyplay_circle_filled

  Three Strikes Law - Witness History: Witness Black History

  One man's experience of the controversial US law that saw thousands locked up for life. Under the law in California, a third conviction for a felony offence would lead to a life sentence. At times in California, 45% of "three strikers" were African American. Many were sentenced to life in prison for non-violent or minor offences. Alex Last hears the story of Bilal Chatman, and his hopes for reform.Photo credit: Getty Images
• Homeschool History Podcast - Fun history lessons for all the family, presented by Horrible Histories' Greg Jenner. Full of facts and jokes, the series brings to life a broad range of historical topics.play_circle_filled

  The First Emperor of China - Homeschool History

  Join host Greg Jenner and travel back over 2,000 years to meet the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi. Learn all about the discovery of his world famous Terracotta Army, the fierce lengths he went to in order to unify China and why he was so fixated on discovering the secret to eternal life.Presented by Greg Jenner Produced by Abi Paterson Script by Gabby Hutchinson Crouch and Emma Nagouse Historical consultant: Dr Leon RochaA Muddy Knees Media production for BBC Radio 4
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• Jared Diamond Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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• Susan Wise Bauer The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
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