Entirely Unofficial Rest is History Catalogue and Interrogator

Contemporary Era (Post-1991)

166 Episodes 29 Series 132 Figures 41 Events 444 Books 319 Authors

The post-1991 contemporary era (1991–present) episodes examine politics, culture, sport and public health. Series include American Crusades (Christianity and US foreign policy and warfare), Australian Prime Ministers (federal leadership across the 20th–21st centuries), Disease (the history and impact of infectious disease), Great World Cup Saga (national histories framed by the FIFA World Cup) and Historical Love Island (which historical figures would fare in contemporary dating scenarios). Episodes treat topics such as historical fiction, dragons in culture, civil-war patterns and World Cup politics. Figures discussed include George Lucas, Kemi Batenock, Penny Mordaunt, Robert Reich, David Stockman, Nicholas Fraser, Satnam Sanghera and Anthony Scaramucci. Events covered include the 2014 World Cup, 2012 London opening ceremony, the 2001 UK election, the 2024 US presidential election, the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition, Redfern Park speech and Russia’s early-1990s privatization; books cited include Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Britannia Unchained, Benjamin Barber’s Jihad vs. McWorld and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.

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2025

5 episodes

RIHC - The 7-7 Bombings: London's Deadliest Terror Attacks

Jun 10, 2025

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview journalist and filmmaker Adam Wishart about his book and BBC document…

RIHC: The Wife of Christ, Trump's Tariffs, and Disastrous British Defeats

May 20, 2025

This bonus episode is a listener Q&A hosted by Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook. The hosts exchange favourite “unbelie…

RIHC: Cold War Secrets, American Conspiracies, and Ghosts of Iron Mountain

Apr 08, 2025

This episode examines the origins and afterlife of Report from Iron Mountain, a 1967 satirical hoax that purported to b…

RIHC: American Presidents, From FDR To Trump: The Invasion of Iraq, Obama's Failures, and the Biden Blip (Part 2)

Feb 12, 2025

This bonus episode of Rest Is History features guest Anthony Scaramucci joining host Dominic Sandbrook to continue a pl…

RIHC: Fallen Empires, The Dark Ages, and Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey

Jan 22, 2025

This bonus episode is a rapid question-and-answer session between Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook. They open by discu…

2024

7 episodes

RIHC: Gladiator II, Narcissistic Poets, and The Princes in the Tower (Livestream)

Dec 04, 2024

This is a live Rest Is History stream in which hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook recap their recent US tour, desc…

RIHC: Trump’s Election Victory, Spectacular Battlefields, and Star Wars

Nov 20, 2024

This bonus episode of The Rest Is History is a tour-time recording from Chicago featuring hosts Tom Holland and Dominic…

RIHC: Marie Antoinette EXTRA

Aug 06, 2024

With Dominic Sandbrook absent, Tom Holland hosts a bonus episode featuring art historian Izzy Muir to discuss Marie Ant…

RIHC: King Arthur, Ancient Egypt, and Unexpected Historical Trends

Jul 23, 2024

This bonus episode features Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discussing an Ipsos international poll about which histor…

RIHC: Presidential Assassinations, Political Violence, and Revolutionary Legacies

Jul 16, 2024

This bonus episode opens with Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discussing the recent assassination attempt on Donald T…

RIHC: Tom and Dominic LIVE at Chalke History Festival

Jun 26, 2024

This is a live bonus episode recorded at the Chalk History Festival in which Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook (with To…

Modern British Elections (Part 2)

Jun 25, 2024
Modern British Elections · Part 2

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the evolution and effectiveness of modern election campaigning, tracing devel…
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Series in this era

29 series

Great World Cup Saga

4 episodes Aired: 2022-11-17 – 2022-11-29

The End of the Soviet Union

4 episodes Aired: 2022-03-07

12 (or 13) Days of Christmas

3 episodes Aired: 2021-12-25

Historical Love Island

2 episodes Aired: 2022-07-11 – 2022-07-13

Oil

2 episodes Aired: 2022-03-24

Queen's Platinum Jubilee

2 episodes Aired: 2022-05-30

Silicon Valley

2 episodes Aired: 2021-11-27

Titanic

2 episodes Aired: 2024-03-11 – 2024-03-13

World Cup of Prime Ministers

2 episodes Aired: 2021-11-27

Afghanistan

1 episode Aired: 2021-11-27

American Crusades

1 episode Aired: 2022-02-18

Atlantis

1 episode Aired: 2023-03-20

Australian Prime Ministers

1 episode Aired: 2022-05-23

Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade

1 episode Aired: 2023-02-06

Crossover with Dan Carlin

1 episode Aired: 2022-05-09

Disease

1 episode Aired: 2022-02-03

England Games at the European Cup (November 2021)

1 episode Aired: 2021-11-27

Historical Love Island - The Sequel

1 episode Aired: 2023-08-06

Holidays

1 episode Aired: 2022-08-22

Life of Queen Elizabeth II

1 episode Aired: 2022-09-09

Modern British Elections

1 episode Aired: 2024-06-25

Photography and History miniseries

1 episode Aired: 2026-04-21

Presidents of the French Fifth Republic

1 episode Aired: 2022-04-25

Public Schools

1 episode Aired: 2023-09-10

Statues

1 episode Aired: 2021-11-27

The Falklands War

1 episode Aired: 2022-04-04

The World Cup

1 episode Aired: 2022-11-14

Walt Disney / Disney (November 2025)

1 episode Aired: 2025-11-07

World Cup of Kings and Queens

1 episode Aired: 2021-11-27

Historical figures

132 tagged

Vladimir Putin

28 episodes

Donald Trump

17 episodes

Tony Blair

16 episodes

George W. Bush

13 episodes

Boris Johnson

12 episodes

Diana, Princess of Wales

11 episodes

Queen Elizabeth II

11 episodes

Boris Yeltsin (Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin)

9 episodes

Charles III (King of the United Kingdom)

9 episodes

Gordon Brown

9 episodes

Jeremy Corbyn

8 episodes

Prince William (William, Prince of Wales)

8 episodes

Rishi Sunak

8 episodes

Angela Merkel

7 episodes

Barack Obama (Barack Hussein Obama II)

7 episodes

Emmanuel Macron

7 episodes

Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Volodymyr Zelensky)

7 episodes

Bill Clinton

6 episodes

John Major

6 episodes

Keir Starmer

6 episodes

Nelson Mandela

6 episodes

Xi Jinping

6 episodes

David Cameron

5 episodes

Graham Hancock

5 episodes

Liz Truss

5 episodes

Ed Miliband

4 episodes

Gary Lineker

4 episodes

Gerhard Schröder

4 episodes

Jacques Chirac

4 episodes

Joe Biden

4 episodes

Joseph R. Biden Jr.

4 episodes

Nicola Sturgeon

4 episodes

Pope John Paul II

4 episodes

Prince Edward

4 episodes

Robert Harris

4 episodes

Theresa May

4 episodes

Alastair Campbell

3 episodes

Camilla, Queen Consort of the United Kingdom

3 episodes

J. D. Vance

3 episodes

J. K. Rowling

3 episodes

Jeremy Hunt

3 episodes

Leonid Kravchuk

3 episodes

Marine Le Pen

3 episodes

Nicolas Sarkozy

3 episodes

Osama bin Laden

3 episodes

Patrick O'Brian

3 episodes

Penny Mordaunt

3 episodes

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

3 episodes

Salman Rushdie

3 episodes

Steve Jobs

3 episodes

Vladislav Zubok

3 episodes

William Gibson

3 episodes

William Jefferson Clinton

3 episodes

Adam Wishart

2 episodes

Alex Salmond

2 episodes

Andy Grove

2 episodes

Bill Gates

2 episodes

Cormac McCarthy

2 episodes

Dan Brown

2 episodes

David Attenborough

2 episodes

Dominic Cummings

2 episodes

Frank Muir

2 episodes

Gareth Southgate

2 episodes

George H. W. Bush

2 episodes

Jeff Bezos

2 episodes

John Barnes

2 episodes

Julia Gillard

2 episodes

Keith Richards

2 episodes

Lucy Lethbridge

2 episodes

Michael Cook

2 episodes

Neil Kinnock

2 episodes

Neil Price

2 episodes

Nigel Farage

2 episodes

Norman Tebbit

2 episodes

Patricia Kroner

2 episodes

Paul John Keating

2 episodes

Peter Tatchell

2 episodes

Prince Harry

2 episodes

Princess Anne

2 episodes

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

2 episodes

Roger Moore

2 episodes

Rory Stewart

2 episodes

Saddam Hussein

2 episodes

Silvio Berlusconi

2 episodes

Slobodan Milošević

2 episodes

Al Murray

1 episode

Alain Delon

1 episode

Andrew Roberts

1 episode

Anne, Princess Royal (Princess Anne)

1 episode

Bernard Donoughue

1 episode

Bob Woodward

1 episode

Chris Floyd

1 episode

Christopher Clark

1 episode

Christopher Clarke

1 episode

Christopher Harding

1 episode

Christopher Hitchens

1 episode

Cliff Richard (Harry Webb)

1 episode

Dan Jackson

1 episode

Dan Snow

1 episode

Geoffrey Howe

1 episode

Helmut Kohl

1 episode

Ian Kershaw

1 episode

Isaac Asimov

1 episode

Jacob Rees-Mogg

1 episode

Jacques Delors

1 episode

John Lydon

1 episode

John le Carre

1 episode

Jonathan Friedland

1 episode

Jonathan Wilson

1 episode

Kamala Harris

1 episode

Katja Heuer

1 episode

Ken Livingstone

1 episode

Mark Zuckerberg

1 episode

Mary Beard

1 episode

Matthew Restel

1 episode

Max Hastings

1 episode

Muhammad Ali

1 episode

Neil Ferguson

1 episode

Paul Volcker

1 episode

Philip Glass

1 episode

Philip Pullman

1 episode

Ronald Hutton

1 episode

Rupert Murdoch

1 episode

Scott Alexander

1 episode

Scott John Morrison

1 episode

Sean Connery

1 episode

Tom Cruise

1 episode

Tom Shippey

1 episode

Tony Abbott

1 episode

Umberto Eco

1 episode

Viktor Orbán

1 episode

Willie Dalrymple

1 episode

Historical events

41 tagged

Brexit (2016 referendum and aftermath)

15 episodes

September 11 attacks (11 September 2001)

13 episodes

Collapse of the Soviet Union (1991)

12 episodes

Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022– )

11 episodes

Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation (2014)

9 episodes

COVID-19 pandemic

9 episodes

Iraq War (2003 invasion of Iraq)

8 episodes

2022 FIFA World Cup (Qatar)

6 episodes

Scottish independence referendum (2014)

6 episodes

Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee (2022)

5 episodes

2008 global financial crisis

4 episodes

Afghanistan conflict (post-2001)

4 episodes

Breakup of Yugoslavia / Yugoslav Wars (1990s, Balkans)

4 episodes

Death of Diana, Princess of Wales (1997)

4 episodes

Russo-Georgian War (2008)

4 episodes

U.S. Capitol Riot (January 6, 2021)

4 episodes

Ukraine independence referendum (1 December 1991, Ukraine)

4 episodes

Second Chechen War (1999-2009)

3 episodes

Bosnian War (1992–1995, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

2 episodes

COVID-19 lockdowns in Shanghai

2 episodes

Chechen conflicts / Chechen Wars (1990s–2000s)

2 episodes

Coronation of Charles III (2023)

2 episodes

Euromaidan (2013–2014)

2 episodes

FIFA World Cup

2 episodes

London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony

2 episodes

The Troubles (late 1960s–1998, Northern Ireland)

2 episodes

1994 FIFA World Cup (United States)

1 episode

1998 FIFA World Cup (France)

1 episode

2002 FIFA World Cup Final (2002)

1 episode

2014 FIFA World Cup (Brazil, 2014)

1 episode

2018 FIFA World Cup (Russia)

1 episode

7/7 2005 London bombings

1 episode

Black Lives Matter protests / statue removals (notably 2020)

1 episode

COVID-19 lockdowns (2020–2021, UK)

1 episode

Death of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

1 episode

First Chechen War (1994–1996)

1 episode

London Olympic Games (2012)

1 episode

Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee (2012)

1 episode

Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee (2002)

1 episode

Rwandan Genocide (1994)

1 episode

Windrush scandal (UK)

1 episode

Books

444 tagged

Dominion

Author: Tom Holland

18 episodes

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Author: Tom Holland

15 episodes

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

Author: Tom Holland

8 episodes

Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

Author: Tom Holland

7 episodes

Tom Brown's School Days

Author: Thomas Hughes

5 episodes

Blood Meridian

Author: Cormac McCarthy

4 episodes

Flashman (series )

Author: George MacDonald Fraser

4 episodes

In the Shadow of the Sword

Author: Tom Holland

4 episodes

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Author: George Orwell

4 episodes

Bleak House

Author: Charles Dickens

3 episodes

Eminent Victorians

Author: Lytton Strachey

3 episodes

Harry Potter (series)

Author: J. K. Rowling

3 episodes

I, Claudius

Author: Robert Graves

3 episodes

Ladybird books

Author: L. Du Garde Peach (and various)

3 episodes

The End of History

Author: Francis Fukuyama

3 episodes

The Histories

Author: Herodotus

3 episodes

The Secret History

Author: Procopius (Procopius of Caesarea)

3 episodes

Who Dares Wins

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

3 episodes

A Clockwork Orange

Author: Anthony Burgess

2 episodes

A Distant Mirror

Author: Barbara Tuchman

2 episodes

A Tale of Two Cities

Author: Charles Dickens

2 episodes

Acts of Oblivion

Author: Robert Harris

2 episodes

Adventure in Time (Series)

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

2 episodes

Adventures in Time: Fury of the Vikings

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

2 episodes

Alexander to Actium: The Hellenistic Age

Author: Peter Green

2 episodes

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Author: Timothy Snyder

2 episodes

Brave New World

Author: Aldous Huxley

2 episodes

Citizens

Author: Simon Schama

2 episodes

Crime and Punishment

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

2 episodes

Disorder, Hard Times in the 21st Century

Author: Helen Thompson

2 episodes

Don Quixote

Author: Miguel de Cervantes

2 episodes

Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

Author: Tom Holland

2 episodes

Empire of Booze

Author: Henry Jeffries

2 episodes

Fatherland

Author: Robert Harris

2 episodes

History of Britain Between the Wars (referred to as "English History")

Author: A. J. P. Taylor

2 episodes

Holy Blood and the Holy Grail

Author: Michael Baigent; Richard Leigh; Henry Lincoln

2 episodes

King James Bible

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

2 episodes

King Solomon's Mines

Author: H. Rider Haggard

2 episodes

Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

Author: Tom Holland

2 episodes

Moonraker

Author: Ian Fleming

2 episodes

Mrs Dalloway

Author: Virginia Woolf

2 episodes

Neuromancer

Author: William Gibson

2 episodes

Never Had It So Good

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

2 episodes

Pandemonium

Author: Humphrey Jennings

2 episodes

Royal Flash

Author: George MacDonald Fraser

2 episodes

Servants

Author: Lucy Lethbridge

2 episodes

Spycatcher

Author: Peter Wright

2 episodes

Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith

Author: Andrew Preston

2 episodes

The Alteration

Author: Kingsley Amis

2 episodes

The Da Vinci Code

Author: Dan Brown

2 episodes

The Iliad

Author: Homer

2 episodes

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes

Author: Jonathan Rose

2 episodes

The Lost Pianos of Siberia

Author: Sophy Roberts

2 episodes

The Man in the High Castle

Author: Philip K. Dick

2 episodes

The Northumbrians

Author: Dan Jackson

2 episodes

The Restless Republic

Author: Anna Kay

2 episodes

The Roman Army

Author: Peter Connolly

2 episodes

The Third World War

Author: General Sir John Hackett

2 episodes

The Turn of the Screw

Author: Henry James

2 episodes

The Worst Witch

Author: Jill Murphy

2 episodes

To the Lighthouse

Author: Virginia Woolf

2 episodes

Tourists

Author: Lucy Lethbridge

2 episodes

War and Peace

Author: Leo Tolstoy

2 episodes

Wolf Hall

Author: Hilary Mantel

2 episodes

100 Years of Solitude

Author: Gabriel García Márquez

1 episode

A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World

Author: Rana Mitter

1 episode

A Cursed King (Series)

Author: Maurice Drouin

1 episode

A Dance to the Music of Time

Author: Anthony Powell

1 episode

A History of Modern Britain

Author: Andrew Marr

1 episode

A History of the World

Author: Plantagenet Somerset Fry

1 episode

A History of the World in 51 Heroes and Villains

Author: Unknown

1 episode

A Monstrous Commotion: The Mysteries of Loch Ness

Author: Gareth Williams

1 episode

A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom

Author: Mark Gregory Pegg

1 episode

A Murder Is Announced

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888–1889

Author: Frederick Morton

1 episode

A Place of Greater Safety

Author: Hilary Mantel

1 episode

A Pocket Full of Rye

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

A Scandal in Bohemia

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

1 episode

A Spy in the House of Love

Author: N. L. Eisenin

1 episode

A history of magic witchcraft in the occult

Author: Professor Suzannah Lipscomb

1 episode

A history of the Seven Years War

Author: Brendan Sims

1 episode

Aberystwyth Mon Amour

Author: Malcolm Price

1 episode

Absalom, Absalom!

Author: William Faulkner

1 episode

Action Comics No. 1

Author: Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster

1 episode

Adventures in Time: Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

1 episode

After Tamerlane

Author: John Darwin

1 episode

After the Titanic

Author: Derek Mahon

1 episode

Aftermath

Author: Harold Jena

1 episode

Agricola

Author: Tacitus

1 episode

Albion Seed

Author: David Hackett Fisher

1 episode

All Played Out

Author: Pete Davies

1 episode

An American Melodrama

Author: Lewis Chester; Godfrey Hodgson; Bruce Page

1 episode

An Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age

Author: Simon Schama

1 episode

An Instance of the Fingerpost

Author: Ian Pears

1 episode

And Then There Were None

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

Angels and Demons

Author: Dan Brown

1 episode

Angry Aztecs

Author: Matthew Restel

1 episode

Animal Farm

Author: George Orwell

1 episode

Appointment with Death

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

Archangel

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

Around the World in Eighty Days

Author: Jules Verne

1 episode

Arthur & George

Author: Julian Barnes

1 episode

Aubrey–Maturin series

Author: Patrick O'Brian

1 episode

Austerity Britain

Author: David Kinnerston

1 episode

Austerlitz

Author: W.G. Zabold

1 episode

Authors Take Sides on the Falklands

Author: Jean Moorcroft Woolf, Cecil & Wilson

1 episode

Behold a Pale Horse

Author: Milton William Cooper

1 episode

Ben-Hur

Author: Lew Wallace

1 episode

Beowulf

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Beyond Black

Author: Hilary Mantel

1 episode

Beyond a Boundary

Author: C. L. R. James

1 episode

Bhagavad Gita

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Bible (Book of Kings, Isaiah, Ezekiel, 1 Chronicles)

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Biographies of Lyndon B. Johnson (by Robert Caro)

Author: Robert Caro

1 episode

Biography of Henry Kissinger

Author: Niall Ferguson

1 episode

Biography of Muhammad (referenced)

Author: Karen Armstrong

1 episode

Biography of Ronald Reagan

Author: Bob Spitz

1 episode

Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series (lyrics/compilation referenced)

Author: Bob Dylan

1 episode

Boys' Own Paper

Author: Various

1 episode

Brief Lives

Author: John Aubrey

1 episode

Britannia Unchained

Author: Kwasi Kwarteng

1 episode

Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity

Author: Liz Truss; co-authors mentioned in transcript: Dominic Raab and 'Quasi quartering'

1 episode

Buddenbrooks

Author: Thomas Mann

1 episode

Bulldog Drummond (series)

Author: H. C. McNeile (pen name: Sapper)

1 episode

Burmese Days

Author: George Orwell

1 episode

Carlyle's biography of Frederick the Great

Author: Thomas Carlyle

1 episode

Charlie Wilson's War

Author: George Crile

1 episode

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Author: Roald Dahl

1 episode

China's Good War

Author: Rana Mitter

1 episode

China's War with Japan, 1937 to 1945: The Struggle for Survival

Author: Rana Mitter

1 episode

Chrestomanci / (referred to in transcript as 'Cresta Mancy' stories)

Author: Diana Wynne-Jones

1 episode

Cicero's Republic

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero

1 episode

Citizen Clem

Author: John Butte

1 episode

Classes and Cultures

Author: Ross McKibbin

1 episode

Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

Author: Vladislav Zubok

1 episode

Count Belisarius

Author: Robert Graves

1 episode

Critias

Author: Plato

1 episode

Daisy Miller

Author: Henry James

1 episode

Days in May: How Germany's War Ended

Author: Volker Ulrich

1 episode

Dear England

Author: Gareth Southgate

1 episode

Deeds of Esplandian

Author: Garci Ordonez de Monteluo

1 episode

Demonology

Author: James VI and I

1 episode

Discworld (series)

Author: Terry Pratchett

1 episode

Disorder

Author: Helen Thompson

1 episode

Downing Street Diary: With Harold Wilson in Number 10

Author: Bernard Donahue

1 episode

Dracula

Author: Bram Stoker

1 episode

East West Street

Author: Philippe Sands

1 episode

England in 1819

Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley

1 episode

Eurasia

Author: Bruno Massange

1 episode

Fahrenheit 451

Author: Ray Bradbury

1 episode

Fever Pitch

Author: Nick Hornby

1 episode

Flashman at the Charge

Author: George MacDonald Fraser

1 episode

Flashman in Ethiopia

Author: George MacDonald Fraser

1 episode

Football Against the Enemy

Author: Simon Kuper

1 episode

Fortress Malta and Island Under Siege

Author: James Holland

1 episode

Foundation (series)

Author: Isaac Asimov

1 episode

Franco's Crypt

Author: Jeremy Trelawn

1 episode

Frankenstein

Author: Mary Shelley

1 episode

From the Wall to the Sea

Author: William Han

1 episode

Funeral Games

Author: Mary Reynolds

1 episode

Genesis

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

George III (The Last King of America)

Author: Andrew Roberts

1 episode

Ghosts of Iron Mountain

Author: Phil Tinline

1 episode

Ghosts, a Natural History, 500 Years of Searching for Proof

Author: Roger Clark

1 episode

Gilded Youth

Author: James Brooke Smith

1 episode

Global Crisis

Author: Geoffrey Parker

1 episode

God's Englishman

Author: Christopher Hill

1 episode

Gone with the Wind

Author: Margaret Mitchell

1 episode

Goodbye to All That

Author: Robert Graves

1 episode

Great History of the English

Author: Robert Toombs

1 episode

Greater Britain After the Storm

Author: Penny Mordant; Chris Lewis

1 episode

Gulliver's Travels

Author: Jonathan Swift

1 episode

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Author: Jared Diamond

1 episode

Hagarism

Author: Michael Cook; Patricia Kroner

1 episode

Hamlet

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Hannibal and the Carthaginians

Author: Peter Connolly

1 episode

Head of State

Author: Andrew Marr

1 episode

Heart of Darkness

Author: Joseph Conrad

1 episode

Hell to Pay

Author: DM Jeanne Greco

1 episode

Henry IV, Part I

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Henry V

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill

Author: Candice Millard

1 episode

Heroic Failures and the British

Author: Paul L. F. H. B. McCarthy

1 episode

High Minds

Author: Simon Heffer

1 episode

Hillbilly Elegy

Author: J. D. Vance

1 episode

History of the English-Speaking Peoples

Author: Winston Churchill

1 episode

History of the Peloponnesian War

Author: Thucydides

1 episode

History of the Second World War

Author: Alan Alport

1 episode

History of the Tudors

Author: David Loades

1 episode

History of the Windrush generation (unspecified title)

Author: Trevor Phillips; Mike Phillips

1 episode

Hornblower (series)

Author: C. S. Forester

1 episode

Horrible Histories (series)

Author: Terry Deary

1 episode

How Software is Eating the World

Author: Mark Andreessen

1 episode

Identity of England

Author: Robert Coles

1 episode

In Cold Blood

Author: Truman Capote

1 episode

In Time of the Breaking of Nations

Author: Thomas Hardy

1 episode

Inferno

Author: Dan Brown

1 episode

Ivanhoe

Author: Walter Scott

1 episode

James and the Giant Peach

Author: Roald Dahl

1 episode

Jeeves and Wooster (series)

Author: P. G. Wodehouse

1 episode

Jihad vs. McWorld

Author: Benjamin Barber

1 episode

John Julius Norwich's trilogy

Author: John Julius Norwich

1 episode

Jungle Fever

Author: Jean‑Paul Gould

1 episode

King Lear (Nahum Tate's rewritten version)

Author: Nahum Tate

1 episode

Kitap al-Masalik al-Malmalik (The Book of Roads and Kingdoms)

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Labyrinth

Author: Kate Moss

1 episode

Last Tango in Aberystwyth

Author: Malcolm Price

1 episode

Lenin's Tomb

Author: David Remnick

1 episode

Lindisfarne Gospels

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Live and Let Die

Author: Ian Fleming

1 episode

Lives (Parallel Lives)

Author: Plutarch

1 episode

Lost Kingdom

Author: Bernard Cornwell

1 episode

Magicians of the Gods

Author: Graham Hancock

1 episode

Malleus Maleficarum

Author: Heinrich Kramer

1 episode

Mary Poppins

Author: P. L. Travers

1 episode

Master and Commander (Patrick O'Brian series)

Author: Patrick O'Brian

1 episode

Matilda

Author: Roald Dahl

1 episode

Mein Kampf

Author: Adolf Hitler

1 episode

Memoirs of the 20th Century

Author: Samuel Madden

1 episode

Metamorphoses

Author: Ovid

1 episode

Midnight's Children

Author: Salman Rushdie

1 episode

Molesworth stories

Author: Mary Louisa Molesworth

1 episode

Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown

Author: Virginia Woolf

1 episode

Munich

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

My Early Life

Author: Winston Churchill

1 episode

My Internet, The Portrait of an Average Woman

Author: Stefan Weig

1 episode

Naming Names

Author: Victor Novasky

1 episode

Napoleon

Author: Andrew Roberts

1 episode

Never Turn Back

Author: Julian DeWerts

1 episode

Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible

Author: Peter Pomerantsev

1 episode

Of Mice and Men

Author: John Steinbeck

1 episode

Oh What a Lovely War

Author: Joan Littlewood

1 episode

Oliver Twist

Author: Charles Dickens

1 episode

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Author: Ian Fleming

1 episode

On Liberty

Author: John Stuart Mill

1 episode

Oration on the Dignity of Man

Author: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

1 episode

Orlando

Author: Virginia Woolf

1 episode

Ornamentalism

Author: David Cannadine

1 episode

Our Island Story

Author: H. E. Marshall

1 episode

Our Man in Havana

Author: Graham Greene

1 episode

Our Mutual Friend

Author: Charles Dickens

1 episode

Pale Rider

Author: Laura Spinney

1 episode

Pax Britannica

Author: Jan Morris

1 episode

People's History of Love

Author: James Meek

1 episode

Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease in the Course of Human History

Author: Kyle Harper

1 episode

Pleasure Island: The Great British Dream Factory / The Great British Dream Factory

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

1 episode

Portrait of a Lady

Author: Henry James

1 episode

Preciptice

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

Pride and Prejudice

Author: Jane Austen

1 episode

Private Eye annual

Author: Private Eye

1 episode

Queen of the World: The Global Biography

Author: Robert Hardman

1 episode

Ramayana

Author: Valmiki

1 episode

Raw Hide Down

Author: Del Quentin Wilbur

1 episode

Recessional (poem)

Author: Rudyard Kipling

1 episode

Red Shelley

Author: Paul Foote

1 episode

Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo World

Author: James Belich

1 episode

Report from Iron Mountain

Author: Leonard Lewin

1 episode

Resurrection

Author: David Remnick

1 episode

Richard II

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Richard III

Author: Paul Murray Kendall

1 episode

Romeo and Juliet

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Author: Omar Khayyam; translated by Edward FitzGerald

1 episode

Rush to Judgment

Author: Mark Lane

1 episode

SAS Rogue Heroes

Author: Ben McIntyre

1 episode

SSGB

Author: Len Deighton

1 episode

Schindler's List

Author: Thomas Keneally

1 episode

Seasons in the Sun

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

1 episode

Shah of Shahs

Author: Richard Kapuscinski

1 episode

Silk Roads

Author: Peter Frankenplan

1 episode

Smiley's People

Author: John le Carré

1 episode

Spartacus

Author: Howard Fast

1 episode

Stiff

Author: Susan Faludi

1 episode

Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero

Author: Grant Morrison

1 episode

Tabatek Singh

Author: Sadat Hasan Manto

1 episode

Tamworth Manifesto

Author: Sir Robert Peel

1 episode

Tarka the Otter

Author: Henry Williamson

1 episode

Team of Rivals

Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin

1 episode

Terra Nostra

Author: Carlos Fuentes

1 episode

The 120 Days of Sodom

Author: Marquis de Sade

1 episode

The 7% Solution

Author: Nicholas Meyer

1 episode

The ABC Murders

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

The Aeneid (standardized)

Author: Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)

1 episode

The Age of Football

Author: David Goldblatt

1 episode

The Ambassadors

Author: Henry James

1 episode

The Americanisation of the World

Author: W. T. Stead

1 episode

The Amityville Horror

Author: Jay Anson

1 episode

The Archon Memorandum

Author: Andrew Roberts

1 episode

The Art of the Deal

Author: Donald Trump

1 episode

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Author: Malcolm X

1 episode

The Beggar's Opera

Author: John Gay

1 episode

The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley

Author: Michael S. Malone

1 episode

The Black Jacobins

Author: C. L. R. James

1 episode

The Book of Daniel

Author: E. L. Doctorow

1 episode

The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe

Author: Matthew Gabriel

1 episode

The Brothers Karamazov

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

1 episode

The Canterbury Tales

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

1 episode

The Castle of Otranto

Author: Horace Walpole

1 episode

The Christmas Truce

Author: Carol Anne Duffy

1 episode

The Churchill Play

Author: Howard Brenton

1 episode

The Clash of Civilizations

Author: Samuel P. Huntington

1 episode

The Classic Slum

Author: Robert Roberts

1 episode

The Comedians

Author: Graham Greene

1 episode

The Dark Is Rising (sequence)

Author: Susan Cooper

1 episode

The Dark Knight Returns

Author: Frank Miller

1 episode

The Darkening Age

Author: Catherine Nicksey

1 episode

The Day of the Jackal

Author: Frederick Forsyth

1 episode

The Death of Consensus

Author: Phil Tinline

1 episode

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (standardized)

Author: Edward Gibbon

1 episode

The Divine Comedy

Author: Dante Alighieri

1 episode

The Dragon in the West

Author: Daniel Ogden

1 episode

The Dragons of Eden

Author: Carl Sargon

1 episode

The Dream Endures

Author: Kevin Starr

1 episode

The Earth Transformed

Author: Peter Frankopan.

1 episode

The Edible Woman

Author: Margaret Atwood

1 episode

The Embarrassment of Riches

Author: Simon Schama

1 episode

The End of History and the Last Man

Author: Francis Fukuyama

1 episode

The End of the Affair

Author: Graham Greene

1 episode

The Epic of Atraḥasis (Mesopotamian flood text)

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

The Exorcist

Author: William Peter Blatty

1 episode

The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease and the End of an Empire

Author: Kyle Harper

1 episode

The Forgotten People

Author: Robert Menzies

1 episode

The French Revolution

Author: Hilaire Belloc

1 episode

The Gardener

Author: Rudyard Kipling

1 episode

The Ghost of Thomas Kemp

Author: Penelope Lively

1 episode

The Gold of Rennes (Le Trésor de Rennes)

Author: Gérard de Sed

1 episode

The Golden Bowl

Author: Henry James

1 episode

The Grapes of Wrath

Author: John Steinbeck

1 episode

The Great Transformation

Author: Chen Jian; Odd Arne Vestad

1 episode

The Great Wall

Author: Julia Lovell

1 episode

The Greek Army

Author: Peter Connolly

1 episode

The Gulag Archipelago

Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1 episode

The Guns of August

Author: Barbara Tuchman

1 episode

The Handmaid's Tale

Author: Margaret Atwood

1 episode

The Heart Goes Last

Author: Margaret Atwood

1 episode

The Honorary Consul

Author: Graham Greene

1 episode

The Intellectuals and the Masses

Author: John Carey

1 episode

The Interest

Author: Michael Taylor

1 episode

The Judgment of Paris

Author: George Temme

1 episode

The Kingdom by the Sea

Author: Paul Theroux

1 episode

The Klansman

Author: Thomas Dixon

1 episode

The Last Empire

Author: William Dalrymple

1 episode

The Last English King

Author: Julian Rathbone

1 episode

The Last Kingdom

Author: Bernard Cornwell

1 episode

The Last Wolf

Author: Robert Winder

1 episode

The Last Wolf in Scotland

Author: John Crumley

1 episode

The Laws

Author: Plato

1 episode

The Light Ages

Author: Seb Falk

1 episode

The Lion and the Unicorn

Author: George Orwell

1 episode

The Little Drummer Girl

Author: John le Carré

1 episode

The Magnet (magazine)

Author: Various

1 episode

The Man Who Would Be King

Author: Rudyard Kipling

1 episode

The Mask of Anarchy

Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley

1 episode

The Meeting

Author: Matthew Restel

1 episode

The Moonstone

Author: Wilkie Collins

1 episode

The Neophiliacs

Author: Christopher Booker

1 episode

The New Statesman (magazine)

Author: Various

1 episode

The Norseman in the Viking Age

Author: Erik Christiansen

1 episode

The Old Boys: The Decline and Rise of the Public School

Author: David Turner

1 episode

The Old Patagonian Express

Author: Paul Theroux

1 episode

The Origins of the European Economy: Communications and Commerce, AD 300 to 900

Author: Michael McCormick

1 episode

The Pendulum Years

Author: Bernard Levin

1 episode

The Persian Boy

Author: Mary Renault

1 episode

The Politicos

Author: Matthew Josephson

1 episode

The Population Bomb

Author: Paul Ehrlich

1 episode

The Power Elite

Author: C. Wright Mills

1 episode

The Power and the Glory

Author: Graham Greene

1 episode

The Power of Positive Thinking

Author: Norman Vincent Peel

1 episode

The President Makers

Author: Matthew Josephson

1 episode

The Princess Bride

Author: William Goldman

1 episode

The Private Life of Henry VIII

Author: J. R. Ackerley

1 episode

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

Author: Vincent Starrett

1 episode

The Proper Function of Man

Author: Jack London

1 episode

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Author: Unknown; plagiarised from various European authors

1 episode

The Quiet American

Author: Graham Greene

1 episode

The Republic

Author: Plato

1 episode

The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt

Author: Toby Wilkinson

1 episode

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

Author: Paul Kennedy

1 episode

The Rise of the Meritocracy

Author: Michael Young

1 episode

The Road

Author: Cormac McCarthy

1 episode

The Road to Oxiana

Author: Robert Byron

1 episode

The Road to Wigan Pier

Author: George Orwell

1 episode

The Robber Barons

Author: Matthew Josephson

1 episode

The Saint's Life

Author: author not specified in transcript

1 episode

The Satanic Verses

Author: Salman Rushdie

1 episode

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Author: Baroness Emmuska Orczy

1 episode

The Second Sleep

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

The Secret Team

Author: L. Fletcher Prouty

1 episode

The Seduction of the Innocent

Author: Fredric Wertham

1 episode

The Selling of the President (or something)

Author: Joe McGuinness

1 episode

The Silence of the Lambs

Author: Thomas Harris

1 episode

The Spanish Holocaust

Author: Paul Preston

1 episode

The Sword at Sunset

Author: Rosemary SutcliffUnknown

1 episode

The Sword in the Stone

Author: T. H. White

1 episode

The Tailor of Panama

Author: John le Carré

1 episode

The Testaments

Author: Margaret Atwood

1 episode

The Thorn Birds

Author: Colleen McCulloch

1 episode

The Three Musketeers

Author: Alexandre Dumas

1 episode

The Time Traveler's Wife

Author: Audrey Niffenegger

1 episode

The Time Traveller's Guide to a Particular Period

Author: Ian Mortimer

1 episode

The Underground Railroad

Author: Colson Whitehead

1 episode

The Vampire

Author: Tom Holland

1 episode

The Very Dark Ages: Why the Middle Ages Were Terrible, Nothing Good Happened, and People Lived in Mud

Author: ComebackZinc

1 episode

The Viking Way

Author: Neil Price

1 episode

The Wangs Versus the World

Author: Jade Chang

1 episode

The War of the End of the World

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa

1 episode

The West

Author: Nisha McSweeney

1 episode

The White Guard

Author: Mikhail Bulgakov

1 episode

The White Man's Burden

Author: Rudyard Kipling

1 episode

The Wings of the Dove

Author: Henry James

1 episode

The World of Late Antiquity

Author: Peter Brown

1 episode

The Year of Salamis

Author: Peter Green

1 episode

The Years of Rice and Salt

Author: Kim Stanley Robinson

1 episode

Thermidor and the French Revolution

Author: Colin Jones

1 episode

Three Men on a Bummel

Author: Jerome K. Jerome

1 episode

Three Weeks in July: 7/7, the Aftermath and the Deadly Manhunt

Author: Adam Wishart and James Nalley

1 episode

Thunder at Twilight

Author: Frederick Morton

1 episode

Timaeus

Author: Plato

1 episode

Time on the Cross

Author: David Garrow

1 episode

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Author: John le Carré

1 episode

To the Finland Station

Author: Edmund Wilson

1 episode

Tolkien

Author: David Day

1 episode

Trilogy about the British Empire (first book ends with the death of Victoria)

Author: James Morris

1 episode

Twelve Caesars

Author: Mary Beard

1 episode

Ulysses

Author: James Joyce

1 episode

Unlikely Partners

Author: Julian DeWerts

1 episode

Vita Karoli Magni (The Life of Charlemagne)

Author: Einhard

1 episode

Wales, England's Colony

Author: Martin Jones

1 episode

War Game

Author: Anthony Price

1 episode

Watchmen

Author: Alan Moore

1 episode

Waverley

Author: Walter Scott

1 episode

White Heat

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

1 episode

Who Are We Now? Stories of Modern England

Author: Jason Cowley

1 episode

Why Alfred Burnt the Cakes

Author: David Horseball

1 episode

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

Why Nations Fail

Author: Acemolou and Robinson

1 episode

Windrush

Author: Trevor Phillips; Mike Phillips

1 episode

Windrush, 75 Years of Modern Britain

Author: Trevor Phillips; Mike Phillips

1 episode

Wine the Global History

Author: Kathleen Burke

1 episode

Winnie-the-Pooh

Author: A. A. Milne

1 episode

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

Author: Wisden

1 episode

Works of Vladimir Lenin

Author: Vladimir Lenin

1 episode

Years of the Sword

Author: R. J. Unstead

1 episode

history of Russia

Author: Robert Service

1 episode

series by Malcolm Price (set in Aberystwyth)

Author: Malcolm Price

1 episode

Authors

319 tagged

Tom Holland

32 episodes

Dominic Sandbrook

11 episodes

Traditional Attribution or Various

8 episodes

Charles Dickens

7 episodes

George MacDonald Fraser

7 episodes

Robert Harris

7 episodes

Cormac McCarthy

5 episodes

Thomas Hughes

5 episodes

Francis Fukuyama

4 episodes

Robert Graves

4 episodes

William Shakespeare

4 episodes

Andrew Roberts

3 episodes

Fyodor Dostoevsky

3 episodes

Helen Thompson

3 episodes

Herodotus

3 episodes

Ian Fleming

3 episodes

J. K. Rowling

3 episodes

John le Carré

3 episodes

Lucy Lethbridge

3 episodes

Lytton Strachey

3 episodes

Procopius (Procopius of Caesarea)

3 episodes

Rudyard Kipling

3 episodes

Simon Schama

3 episodes

Virginia Woolf

3 episodes

A. J. P. Taylor

2 episodes

Aldous Huxley

2 episodes

Andrew Preston

2 episodes

Anna Kay

2 episodes

Anthony Burgess

2 episodes

Barbara Tuchman

2 episodes

Bernard Cornwell

2 episodes

Dan Brown

2 episodes

Dan Jackson

2 episodes

General Sir John Hackett

2 episodes

Graham Greene

2 episodes

H. Rider Haggard

2 episodes

Henry James

2 episodes

Henry Jeffries

2 episodes

Hilary Mantel

2 episodes

Humphrey Jennings

2 episodes

Jill Murphy

2 episodes

John Steinbeck

2 episodes

Jonathan Rose

2 episodes

Kingsley Amis

2 episodes

Leo Tolstoy

2 episodes

Malcolm Price

2 episodes

Matthew Restel

2 episodes

Michael Baigent; Richard Leigh; Henry Lincoln

2 episodes

Miguel de Cervantes

2 episodes

Peter Connolly

2 episodes

Peter Green

2 episodes

Peter Wright

2 episodes

Phil Tinline

2 episodes

Philip K. Dick

2 episodes

Sophy Roberts

2 episodes

Timothy Snyder

2 episodes

Trevor Phillips; Mike Phillips

2 episodes

Various

2 episodes

William Gibson

2 episodes

Winston Churchill

2 episodes

A. A. Milne

1 episode

Acemolou and Robinson

1 episode

Adam Wishart and James Nalley

1 episode

Adolf Hitler

1 episode

Alan Alport

1 episode

Alan Moore

1 episode

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1 episode

Alexandre Dumas

1 episode

Andrew Marr

1 episode

Anthony Powell

1 episode

Anthony Price

1 episode

Arthur Conan Doyle

1 episode

Audrey Niffenegger

1 episode

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

1 episode

Ben McIntyre

1 episode

Benjamin Barber

1 episode

Bernard Donahue

1 episode

Bernard Levin

1 episode

Bob Dylan

1 episode

Bob Spitz

1 episode

Bram Stoker

1 episode

Brendan Sims

1 episode

Bruno Massange

1 episode

C. L. R. James

1 episode

C. S. Forester

1 episode

C. Wright Mills

1 episode

Candice Millard

1 episode

Carl Sargon

1 episode

Carlos Fuentes

1 episode

Carol Anne Duffy

1 episode

Catherine Nicksey

1 episode

Chen Jian; Odd Arne Vestad

1 episode

Christopher Booker

1 episode

Christopher Hill

1 episode

Colin Jones

1 episode

Colleen McCulloch

1 episode

Colson Whitehead

1 episode

ComebackZinc

1 episode

DM Jeanne Greco

1 episode

Daniel Ogden

1 episode

Dante Alighieri

1 episode

David Cannadine

1 episode

David Day

1 episode

David Garrow

1 episode

David Goldblatt

1 episode

David Hackett Fisher

1 episode

David Horseball

1 episode

David Kinnerston

1 episode

David Loades

1 episode

David Remnick

1 episode

David Turner

1 episode

Del Quentin Wilbur

1 episode

Derek Mahon

1 episode

Diana Wynne-Jones

1 episode

Donald Trump

1 episode

Doris Kearns Goodwin

1 episode

E. L. Doctorow

1 episode

Edmund Wilson

1 episode

Edward Gibbon

1 episode

Einhard

1 episode

Erik Christiansen

1 episode

Frank Miller

1 episode

Frederick Forsyth

1 episode

Frederick Morton

1 episode

Fredric Wertham

1 episode

Gabriel García Márquez

1 episode

Garci Ordonez de Monteluo

1 episode

Gareth Southgate

1 episode

Gareth Williams

1 episode

Geoffrey Chaucer

1 episode

Geoffrey Parker

1 episode

George Crile

1 episode

George Temme

1 episode

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

1 episode

Graham Hancock

1 episode

Grant Morrison

1 episode

Gérard de Sed

1 episode

H. C. McNeile (pen name: Sapper)

1 episode

H. E. Marshall

1 episode

Harold Jena

1 episode

Heinrich Kramer

1 episode

Henry Williamson

1 episode

Hilaire Belloc

1 episode

Horace Walpole

1 episode

Howard Brenton

1 episode

Howard Fast

1 episode

Ian Mortimer

1 episode

Ian Pears

1 episode

Isaac Asimov

1 episode

J. D. Vance

1 episode

J. R. Ackerley

1 episode

Jack London

1 episode

Jade Chang

1 episode

James Belich

1 episode

James Brooke Smith

1 episode

James Joyce

1 episode

James Meek

1 episode

James Morris

1 episode

James VI and I

1 episode

Jan Morris

1 episode

Jane Austen

1 episode

Jared Diamond

1 episode

Jason Cowley

1 episode

Jay Anson

1 episode

Jean Moorcroft Woolf, Cecil & Wilson

1 episode

Jean‑Paul Gould

1 episode

Jeremy Trelawn

1 episode

Jerome K. Jerome

1 episode

Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster

1 episode

Joan Littlewood

1 episode

Joe McGuinness

1 episode

John Aubrey

1 episode

John Butte

1 episode

John Carey

1 episode

John Crumley

1 episode

John Gay

1 episode

John Julius Norwich

1 episode

John Stuart Mill

1 episode

Jonathan Swift

1 episode

Joseph Conrad

1 episode

Jules Verne

1 episode

Julia Lovell

1 episode

Julian Barnes

1 episode

Julian DeWerts

1 episode

Julian Rathbone

1 episode

Karen Armstrong

1 episode

Kate Moss

1 episode

Kathleen Burke

1 episode

Kevin Starr

1 episode

Kim Stanley Robinson

1 episode

Kwasi Kwarteng

1 episode

Kyle Harper

1 episode

L. Fletcher Prouty

1 episode

Laura Spinney

1 episode

Len Deighton

1 episode

Leonard Lewin

1 episode

Lew Wallace

1 episode

Lewis Chester; Godfrey Hodgson; Bruce Page

1 episode

Liz Truss; co-authors mentioned in transcript: Dominic Raab and 'Quasi quartering'

1 episode

Malcolm X

1 episode

Marcus Tullius Cicero

1 episode

Margaret Atwood

1 episode

Margaret Mitchell

1 episode

Mario Vargas Llosa

1 episode

Mark Andreessen

1 episode

Mark Gregory Pegg

1 episode

Mark Lane

1 episode

Marquis de Sade

1 episode

Martin Jones

1 episode

Mary Beard

1 episode

Mary Louisa Molesworth

1 episode

Mary Renault

1 episode

Mary Reynolds

1 episode

Mary Shelley

1 episode

Matthew Gabriel

1 episode

Matthew Josephson

1 episode

Maurice Drouin

1 episode

Michael Cook; Patricia Kroner

1 episode

Michael McCormick

1 episode

Michael S. Malone

1 episode

Michael Taylor

1 episode

Michael Young

1 episode

Mikhail Bulgakov

1 episode

Milton William Cooper

1 episode

N. L. Eisenin

1 episode

Nahum Tate

1 episode

Neil Price

1 episode

Niall Ferguson

1 episode

Nicholas Meyer

1 episode

Nick Hornby

1 episode

Nisha McSweeney

1 episode

Norman Vincent Peel

1 episode

Omar Khayyam; translated by Edward FitzGerald

1 episode

Ovid

1 episode

P. G. Wodehouse

1 episode

P. L. Travers

1 episode

Patrick O'Brian

1 episode

Paul Ehrlich

1 episode

Paul Foote

1 episode

Paul Kennedy

1 episode

Paul L. F. H. B. McCarthy

1 episode

Paul Murray Kendall

1 episode

Paul Preston

1 episode

Paul Theroux

1 episode

Penelope Lively

1 episode

Penny Mordant; Chris Lewis

1 episode

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1 episode

Pete Davies

1 episode

Peter Brown

1 episode

Peter Frankenplan

1 episode

Peter Frankopan.

1 episode

Peter Pomerantsev

1 episode

Philippe Sands

1 episode

Plantagenet Somerset Fry

1 episode

Plato

1 episode

Plutarch

1 episode

Private Eye

1 episode

Professor Suzannah Lipscomb

1 episode

R. J. Unstead

1 episode

Rana Mitter

1 episode

Ray Bradbury

1 episode

Richard Kapuscinski

1 episode

Roald Dahl

1 episode

Robert Byron

1 episode

Robert Caro

1 episode

Robert Coles

1 episode

Robert Hardman

1 episode

Robert Menzies

1 episode

Robert Roberts

1 episode

Robert Service

1 episode

Robert Toombs

1 episode

Robert Winder

1 episode

Roger Clark

1 episode

Rosemary SutcliffUnknown

1 episode

Ross McKibbin

1 episode

Sadat Hasan Manto

1 episode

Salman Rushdie

1 episode

Samuel Madden

1 episode

Samuel P. Huntington

1 episode

Seb Falk

1 episode

Simon Heffer

1 episode

Simon Kuper

1 episode

Sir Robert Peel

1 episode

Stefan Weig

1 episode

Susan Cooper

1 episode

Susan Faludi

1 episode

T. H. White

1 episode

Tacitus

1 episode

Terry Deary

1 episode

Terry Pratchett

1 episode

Thomas Carlyle

1 episode

Thomas Dixon

1 episode

Thomas Hardy

1 episode

Thomas Harris

1 episode

Thomas Keneally

1 episode

Thomas Mann

1 episode

Thucydides

1 episode

Toby Wilkinson

1 episode

Truman Capote

1 episode

Unknown

1 episode

Unknown; plagiarised from various European authors

1 episode

Valmiki

1 episode

Victor Novasky

1 episode

Vincent Starrett

1 episode

Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)

1 episode

Vladimir Lenin

1 episode

Vladislav Zubok

1 episode

Volker Ulrich

1 episode

W. T. Stead

1 episode

W.G. Zabold

1 episode

Walter Scott

1 episode

Wilkie Collins

1 episode

William Dalrymple

1 episode

William Faulkner

1 episode

William Goldman

1 episode

William Han

1 episode

William Peter Blatty

1 episode

Wisden

1 episode

author not specified in transcript

1 episode