Entirely Unofficial Rest is History Catalogue and Interrogator

Mid-20th Century & Cold War

205 Episodes 47 Series 271 Figures 133 Events 492 Books 2 Authors

Covering roughly 1945–1991, this era examines political, military and cultural upheavals of the Cold War and post‑war world. Series include America in 1968 (multi‑episode treatment of Vietnam, mass protests, George Wallace and 1968 crises), American Crusades (Christianity’s influence on US foreign policy and warfare), ARCHIVE: Watergate (two‑part account of Nixon’s rise and fall), Australian Prime Ministers (surveys from federation through 20th–21st century leaders, including Bob Hawke to Scott Morrison), and Britain in 1974 (economic crisis and political turmoil). Episodes address the Mexico City massacre, Grosvenor Square protests, Vietnam War, San José hijacking (1971), Indian independence/Partition (1947), Falklands War and the founding of NATO. Figures and texts discussed include Richard Nixon, Enoch Powell, George Wallace, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Nixon’s memoirs, The Power Broker, State of Emergency, Dead Babies and White Noise.

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2021

12 episodes

The Beatles

Nov 27, 2021

Recorded live at the Chalk Valley History Festival, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook debate the Beatles' status as his…

Afghanistan

Nov 27, 2021
Afghanistan · Part 1

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook provide a wide-ranging survey of Afghan history, opening with geography and ethnic co…

The Berlin Wall

Nov 27, 2021

This episode examines the history and human impact of the Berlin Wall with guest Ian McGregor, author of Checkpoint Cha…

Modern Olympics - Part 2

Nov 27, 2021
The Olympics · Part 3

This episode of The Rest Is History continues the hosts' modern Olympics series, tracing how the Games moved from auste…

The Vietnam War

Nov 27, 2021

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook host Professor Andrew Preston (Cambridge) for a wide-ranging episode on the Vietnam W…

The British Empire

Nov 27, 2021

Hosts Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland interview Satnam Sanghera about his book Empireland. The conversation explores …

A Very British Scandal

Nov 27, 2021

This episode of The Rest Is History examines the Jeremy Thorpe scandal: the rise of Thorpe as leader of the Liberal Par…

Teenagers

Nov 27, 2021

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the historical origins and evolution of the teenager. They begin with ancient…

Communism

Nov 27, 2021

Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland discuss the origins, evolution and legacy of communism. They trace proto-communist id…

Spies, with Ben MacIntyre

Nov 27, 2021

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview historian and author Ben McIntyre about the real history of espionage…

Our Greatest Prime Minister

Nov 27, 2021
World Cup of Prime Ministers · Part 2

This episode is the second special covering the Rest Is History Prime Minister's World Cup, a Twitter knockout tourname…

Americanisation

Nov 27, 2021

This episode of The Rest Is History explores the history and dynamics of Americanisation, tracing its linguistic, cultu…
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Series in this era

47 series

Great World Cup Saga

8 episodes Aired: 2022-11-17 – 2022-12-05

America in 1968

7 episodes Aired: 2024-10-28 – 2024-11-13

John F. Kennedy (JFK)

7 episodes Aired: 2023-11-27

The Falklands War

5 episodes Aired: 2022-03-28 – 2022-04-04

The Troubles

5 episodes Aired: 2026-08-16 – 2026-08-25

Britain in 1974

4 episodes Aired: 2024-02-12

Britain in the 70s

4 episodes Aired: 2026-04-19

Eva Perón / Evita

4 episodes Aired: 2024-09-15

Iranian Revolution

4 episodes Aired: 2026-01-19

Australian Prime Ministers

3 episodes Aired: 2022-05-23

J. R. R. Tolkien

3 episodes Aired: 2022-08-24 – 2022-09-01

Ronald Reagan

3 episodes Aired: 2023-03-06

The World Cup

3 episodes Aired: 2022-11-14

Walt Disney / Disney (November 2025)

3 episodes Aired: 2025-11-03 – 2025-11-07

12 (or 13) Days of Christmas

2 episodes Aired: 2021-12-25

ARCHIVE: Watergate

2 episodes Aired: 2022-06-17

Chile coup (1973)

2 episodes Aired: 2023-09-20

Horror in the Congo

2 episodes Aired: 2025-02-10 – 2025-02-20

Life of Queen Elizabeth II

2 episodes Aired: 2022-09-09

London Week

2 episodes Aired: 2022-07-18

Paris 1968

2 episodes Aired: 2023-07-24

Presidents of the French Fifth Republic

2 episodes Aired: 2022-04-25

Rolling Stones

2 episodes Aired: 2025-04-20

Sixties Fashion

2 episodes Aired: 2023-08-27

The Beatles - With Conan O'Brien

2 episodes Aired: 2025-12-03

The End of the Soviet Union

2 episodes Aired: 2022-03-07

The Fall of Saigon

2 episodes Aired: 2023-04-24

The Rest is History Book Club (With Tabby)

2 episodes Aired: 2025-09-18 – 2025-10-02

Watergate

2 episodes Aired: 2021-11-27

Afghanistan

1 episode Aired: 2021-11-27

Alfred the Great

1 episode Aired: 2022-11-16

American Crusades

1 episode Aired: 2022-02-18

Beards

1 episode Aired: 2024-09-08

Crossover with Dan Carlin

1 episode Aired: 2022-05-09

Dictatorships and the World Cup

1 episode Aired: 2026-06-23

Holidays

1 episode Aired: 2022-08-22

Modern British Elections

1 episode Aired: 2024-06-25

Oil

1 episode Aired: 2022-03-24

Oppenheimer

1 episode Aired: 2023-06-22

Paganism

1 episode Aired: 2021-11-27

Photography and History miniseries

1 episode Aired: 2026-04-21

Portugal

1 episode Aired: 2022-09-07

Queen's Platinum Jubilee

1 episode Aired: 2022-05-30

Second Sino-Japanese War

1 episode Aired: 2022-09-19

Silicon Valley

1 episode Aired: 2021-11-27

The Olympics

1 episode Aired: 2021-11-27

World Cup of Prime Ministers

1 episode Aired: 2021-11-27

Historical figures

271 tagged

Richard Milhous Nixon

51 episodes

John F. Kennedy

41 episodes

Margaret Thatcher

35 episodes

Ronald Reagan

31 episodes

Lyndon B. Johnson

28 episodes

Harold Wilson

26 episodes

Henry Kissinger

26 episodes

Martin Luther King Jr.

19 episodes

Mikhail Gorbachev

19 episodes

Robert F. Kennedy

19 episodes

Dwight D. Eisenhower

18 episodes

John Lennon

17 episodes

Edward Heath

14 episodes

Jimmy Carter

14 episodes

Mao Zedong

14 episodes

Anthony (Tony) Wedgwood Benn

12 episodes

Harold Macmillan

12 episodes

James Callaghan

12 episodes

Charles de Gaulle

11 episodes

Elvis Presley

10 episodes

Gerald Ford

10 episodes

Paul McCartney

10 episodes

Clement Attlee (Clement Richard Attlee)

9 episodes

Denis Healey

9 episodes

Fidel Castro

9 episodes

J. R. R. Tolkien

9 episodes

Lee Harvey Oswald

9 episodes

Nikita Khrushchev

9 episodes

Barry Goldwater

8 episodes

David Bowie

8 episodes

Eugene McCarthy

8 episodes

François Mitterrand

8 episodes

Marilyn Monroe

8 episodes

Mick Jagger

8 episodes

Queen Elizabeth II

8 episodes

Enoch Powell

7 episodes

George Wallace

7 episodes

Harry S. Truman

7 episodes

Hubert Humphrey

7 episodes

Leonid Brezhnev

7 episodes

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

6 episodes

Brian Epstein

6 episodes

Diego Maradona

6 episodes

Eva Perón (Evita Duarte)

6 episodes

George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)

6 episodes

Ian Paisley

6 episodes

J. Edgar Hoover

6 episodes

John Ehrlichman

6 episodes

Michael Foot

6 episodes

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran)

6 episodes

Norman Mailer

6 episodes

Ringo Starr

6 episodes

Alexander Haig (Alexander M. Haig Jr.)

5 episodes

António de Oliveira Salazar

5 episodes

Augusto Pinochet (Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte)

5 episodes

George Harrison

5 episodes

George McGovern

5 episodes

Georges Pompidou

5 episodes

H. R. Haldeman

5 episodes

Helmut Kohl

5 episodes

Hunter S. Thompson

5 episodes

Ian Fleming

5 episodes

Idi Amin

5 episodes

Jeremy Thorpe

5 episodes

Jorge Luis Borges

5 episodes

Philip Larkin

5 episodes

Pope John Paul II

5 episodes

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

5 episodes

Roy Jenkins

5 episodes

Salman Rushdie

5 episodes

Salvador Allende

5 episodes

Adlai Stevenson II

4 episodes

Albert Camus

4 episodes

Bernard Donoughue

4 episodes

Bob Dylan

4 episodes

Caspar Weinberger

4 episodes

Charlie Watts

4 episodes

David Bailey

4 episodes

Deng Xiaoping

4 episodes

Ernest Bevin

4 episodes

Francisco Franco

4 episodes

Helmut Schmidt

4 episodes

Ho Chi Minh

4 episodes

Jack Ruby

4 episodes

Jacqueline Kennedy

4 episodes

Jean-Paul Sartre

4 episodes

John Nott

4 episodes

Joseph Page

4 episodes

Juan Perón

4 episodes

Keith Richards

4 episodes

Konrad Adenauer

4 episodes

Marcia Williams

4 episodes

Marlon Brando

4 episodes

Mohammad Mossadegh

4 episodes

Nelson Mandela

4 episodes

Nicolae Ceaușescu

4 episodes

Oleg Gordievsky

4 episodes

Paul Volcker

4 episodes

Princess Margaret

4 episodes

Robert Caro

4 episodes

Robert S. McNamara

4 episodes

Saddam Hussein

4 episodes

Walter Cronkite

4 episodes

Abbie Hoffman

3 episodes

Alger Hiss

3 episodes

Andy Warhol

3 episodes

Anthony Eden

3 episodes

Archibald Cox

3 episodes

Bill Wyman

3 episodes

Billy Graham

3 episodes

Bob Woodward

3 episodes

Curtis LeMay

3 episodes

Dean Rusk

3 episodes

Douglas MacArthur

3 episodes

Eddie Adams

3 episodes

Frank Sinatra

3 episodes

Fred Logevall

3 episodes

G. Gordon Liddy

3 episodes

Gary Lineker

3 episodes

General Galtieri

3 episodes

Graham Greene

3 episodes

Jacques Delors

3 episodes

James Jesus Angleton

3 episodes

James McCord

3 episodes

Jawaharlal Nehru

3 episodes

Jim Garrison

3 episodes

John le Carre

3 episodes

Jorge Rafael Videla

3 episodes

Juan Domingo Perón

3 episodes

Ken Livingstone

3 episodes

Kim Philby (Harold Adrian Russell Philby)

3 episodes

Kwame Nkrumah

3 episodes

Len Murray

3 episodes

Marianne Faithfull

3 episodes

Marina Oswald

3 episodes

Mary Quant

3 episodes

Nicholas Fraser

3 episodes

Norman Scott

3 episodes

Oliver Stone

3 episodes

Princess Anne

3 episodes

Richard Hofstadter

3 episodes

Robert De Niro

3 episodes

Roger Moore

3 episodes

Rupert Murdoch

3 episodes

Ted Heath

3 episodes

Tim Rice

3 episodes

Tip O'Neill (Thomas P. O'Neill Jr.)

3 episodes

Vincent Bugliosi

3 episodes

Walt Disney

3 episodes

Willie Whitelaw

3 episodes

Yuri Andropov

3 episodes

Zbigniew Brzezinski

3 episodes

Abraham Zapruder

2 episodes

Alain Delon

2 episodes

Aldous Huxley

2 episodes

Alec Guinness

2 episodes

Arthur Miller

2 episodes

Bertolt Brecht

2 episodes

Bill Rogers

2 episodes

Bill Simon

2 episodes

Bobby Sands

2 episodes

Brian Duffy

2 episodes

C. L. R. James (Cyril Lionel Robert James)

2 episodes

Cliff Richard (Harry Webb)

2 episodes

David Attenborough

2 episodes

Diego Rivera

2 episodes

Don DeLillo

2 episodes

Edward Said

2 episodes

Elliot L. Richardson

2 episodes

Engelbert Humperdinck

2 episodes

Frantz Fanon

2 episodes

Frida Kahlo

2 episodes

George H. W. Bush

2 episodes

Getulio Vargas

2 episodes

Ian Botham

2 episodes

Imelda Marcos

2 episodes

J. Robert Oppenheimer

2 episodes

John C. Stennis

2 episodes

John Hinckley Jr.

2 episodes

John Lydon

2 episodes

John Maynard Keynes

2 episodes

John Wayne

2 episodes

Joseph Kagan

2 episodes

Joseph R. Biden Jr.

2 episodes

Konstantin Chernenko

2 episodes

Lee Miller

2 episodes

Leonid Kravchuk

2 episodes

Lord Lucan

2 episodes

Malcolm X

2 episodes

Marisa Navarro

2 episodes

Martin McGuinness

2 episodes

Mary Whitehouse

2 episodes

Michel Foucault

2 episodes

Mobutu Sese Seko

2 episodes

Muhammad Ali

2 episodes

Neil Armstrong

2 episodes

Norman Tebbit

2 episodes

Paul John Keating

2 episodes

Pelé (Edson Arantes do Nascimento)

2 episodes

Peter Fleming

2 episodes

Peter Shaw

2 episodes

Peter Tatchell

2 episodes

Prince Philip

2 episodes

Reginald Maudling

2 episodes

Robert H. Bork

2 episodes

Sean Connery

2 episodes

Timothy Leary

2 episodes

Umberto Eco

2 episodes

Viktor Orbán

2 episodes

Vladimir Nabokov

2 episodes

Vladislav Zubok

2 episodes

William D. Ruckelshaus

2 episodes

William Jefferson Clinton

2 episodes

Wojtek (bear)

2 episodes

Yoko Ono

2 episodes

A. J. P. Taylor (Alan John Percivale Taylor)

1 episode

Andy Grove

1 episode

Anne, Princess Royal (Princess Anne)

1 episode

Barbara Castle

1 episode

Ben Johnson

1 episode

Bill Gates

1 episode

Bill Shankly

1 episode

Bobby Charlton

1 episode

Brian Clough

1 episode

C. S. Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis)

1 episode

Camilla, Queen Consort of the United Kingdom

1 episode

Christopher Hitchens

1 episode

Cormac McCarthy

1 episode

César Luis Menotti

1 episode

Dr. Valverde

1 episode

Enid Blyton

1 episode

Father Hernan Benitez

1 episode

Frank Muir

1 episode

Geoffrey Howe

1 episode

George Lucas

1 episode

George W. Romney

1 episode

Günter Grass

1 episode

Honor Blackman

1 episode

Hugo Young

1 episode

Indira Gandhi

1 episode

Isaac Asimov

1 episode

Jacques Derrida

1 episode

Johan Cruyff

1 episode

John Barnes

1 episode

John Updike

1 episode

Josip Broz Tito

1 episode

João Goulart

1 episode

Julian Lennon

1 episode

Kenneth Williams

1 episode

Kevin Keegan

1 episode

Laurence Olivier

1 episode

Leslie R. Groves

1 episode

Linda McCartney

1 episode

Miklós Horthy

1 episode

Neil Kinnock

1 episode

Osama bin Laden

1 episode

Patrick O'Brian

1 episode

Pelé

1 episode

Peter Sellers

1 episode

Philip Glass

1 episode

Pol Pot

1 episode

Richard Crossman

1 episode

Robert Graves

1 episode

Rosa Parks

1 episode

Sir Alec Douglas Hume

1 episode

Smokey Robinson

1 episode

Tom Cruise

1 episode

Tom Shippey

1 episode

Vyacheslav Molotov

1 episode

William Gibson

1 episode

William Golding

1 episode

Historical events

133 tagged

Watergate break-in (1972)

25 episodes

Assassination of John F. Kennedy (1963)

22 episodes

Second Indochina War / Vietnam War (approx. 1955–1975)

19 episodes

Cold War (c.1947–1991)

17 episodes

Falklands Conflict (1982)

16 episodes

1973 oil crisis / OPEC oil embargo (1973–1974)

12 episodes

Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (4 April 1968)

12 episodes

Cuban Missile Crisis (October 1962)

12 episodes

Vietnam War (U.S. involvement, c. 1960s–1975)

12 episodes

1960 United States presidential election

10 episodes

Iran hostage crisis (1979–1981)

10 episodes

Suez Crisis (1956)

10 episodes

Bay of Pigs invasion (April 1961)

9 episodes

Fall of Saigon / Fall of Sài Gòn (29–30 April 1975)

9 episodes

Algerian War / Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962)

8 episodes

Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (4 June 1968)

8 episodes

Collapse of the Soviet Union (1991)

8 episodes

Iranian Revolution (1978–1979)

8 episodes

1953 Iranian coup d'état (overthrow of Mohammed Mossadegh, 1953)

7 episodes

1968 Democratic National Convention (Chicago)

7 episodes

Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)

7 episodes

Summer of Love (1967, San Francisco)

7 episodes

1968 events in France (May 1968)

6 episodes

1972 United States presidential election

6 episodes

1973 Chilean coup d'état (11 September 1973)

6 episodes

Korean War (1950–1953)

6 episodes

Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989)

6 episodes

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

6 episodes

Three-Day Week (1974, UK)

6 episodes

1981 hunger strikes (Northern Ireland)

5 episodes

Gulf War (1990–1991)

5 episodes

Tet Offensive (1968)

5 episodes

UK accession to the European Communities (1973)

5 episodes

Winter of Discontent (United Kingdom, 1978–1979)

5 episodes

Yom Kippur War (October 1973)

5 episodes

1970 FIFA World Cup (Mexico)

4 episodes

1978 FIFA World Cup (Argentina)

4 episodes

Able Archer 83 (November 1983 NATO exercise)

4 episodes

Apollo 11 Moon landing (20 July 1969)

4 episodes

Battle of Dien Bien Phu (1954)

4 episodes

Beatlemania (1960s)

4 episodes

Civil Rights Movement (United States, mid-20th century)

4 episodes

Prague Spring (1968, Czechoslovakia)

4 episodes

U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam (1973)

4 episodes

UK general election (February 1974)

4 episodes

Watts riots (1965, Los Angeles)

4 episodes

17 October 1945 Loyalty Day rally (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

3 episodes

1945 United Kingdom general election (5 July 1945)

3 episodes

1962 FIFA World Cup

3 episodes

1974 FIFA World Cup (West Germany)

3 episodes

1979 United Kingdom general election

3 episodes

1980 United States Presidential Election

3 episodes

Assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan (30 March 1981)

3 episodes

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

3 episodes

Carnation Revolution (24–25 April 1974, Portugal)

3 episodes

Chernobyl disaster (26 April 1986)

3 episodes

Coronation of Elizabeth II (1953)

3 episodes

Cuban Revolution (1953–1959)

3 episodes

Cultural Revolution (China, 1966–1976)

3 episodes

Dismissal of Gough Whitlam (1975, Australian constitutional crisis)

3 episodes

Establishment of the Fifth Republic (France, 1958)

3 episodes

Guatemalan coup d'état (1954)

3 episodes

IMF bailout for the United Kingdom (1976)

3 episodes

Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988)

3 episodes

Nixon resignation (August 1974)

3 episodes

Six-Day War (1967)

3 episodes

Sputnik launch (1957)

3 episodes

Tiananmen Square Crackdown (1989)

3 episodes

UK miners' strikes (1972; 1974)

3 episodes

"I Have a Dream" speech (28 August 1963)

2 episodes

1958 FIFA World Cup

2 episodes

1964 U.S. presidential election (Barry Goldwater nomination)

2 episodes

1968 nationwide riots following MLK assassination (April 1968, United States)

2 episodes

1968 protests (global, 1968)

2 episodes

1982 FIFA World Cup (Spain)

2 episodes

1983 United Kingdom general election (1983)

2 episodes

1986 FIFA World Cup (Mexico)

2 episodes

Arrival of the Empire Windrush (1948, Tilbury, UK)

2 episodes

Beatles cease touring / end of world tours (1966)

2 episodes

Beatles' Hamburg residencies (early 1960s)

2 episodes

Big Bang (financial deregulation, 1986)

2 episodes

Brixton and Toxteth riots (1981)

2 episodes

Construction of the Berlin Wall (1961)

2 episodes

Costa Rican Civil War (1948)

2 episodes

Denazification (post-1945)

2 episodes

Detroit riots (1967, Detroit, Michigan)

2 episodes

Enoch Powell 'Rivers of Blood' speech (1968)

2 episodes

Establishment of the People's Republic of China (1949)

2 episodes

German reunification (1990)

2 episodes

Iran–Contra affair

2 episodes

March on the Pentagon (1967)

2 episodes

McCarthyism (1950s)

2 episodes

Newark riots (1967, Newark, New Jersey)

2 episodes

Nixon visit to China (1972)

2 episodes

Potsdam Conference (July 1945)

2 episodes

Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee (1977)

2 episodes

Release/recording of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Beatles)

2 episodes

Senate Watergate hearings (1973)

2 episodes

Sinking of HMS Sheffield (1982, South Atlantic)

2 episodes

Space Race (Cold War era)

2 episodes

The Beatles' breakthrough in the United States / Ed Sullivan appearance (1964)

2 episodes

Trinity test (16 July 1945, New Mexico)

2 episodes

UK miners' strike (1984–1985)

2 episodes

VE Day (Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945)

2 episodes

1950 FIFA World Cup (Brazil, Maracanã)

1 episode

1954 FIFA World Cup (Switzerland)

1 episode

1990 FIFA World Cup (Italy)

1 episode

1991 Soviet coup attempt (August Coup, 1991)

1 episode

Beatles 'Get Back' rooftop concert (1969)

1 episode

Beatles in America (1964)

1 episode

Beatles trip to Bangor to meet the Maharishi (Bangor, Wales)

1 episode

Beatles visit to New York (early 1960s)

1 episode

Beatles visit to the Philippines and dispute with the Marcoses (Manila, 1966)

1 episode

Breakup of the Beatles (circa 1970)

1 episode

Cambodian genocide / Khmer Rouge rule (1975–1979)

1 episode

Founding of the National Health Service (NHS) (1948)

1 episode

Glasnost (openness policy)

1 episode

Glastonbury Festival

1 episode

Indian independence and Partition (1947)

1 episode

Japanese American internment (1942–1945)

1 episode

Last guillotining in France (mid-1976)

1 episode

Liberation of Paris (August 1944)

1 episode

May 1968 protests in France

1 episode

New York City fiscal crisis (mid-1970s)

1 episode

Nuremberg trials (1945–1946)

1 episode

Opening of Disneyland (17 July 1955, Anaheim, California)

1 episode

Pacific War / Pacific Theater (World War II, 1941–1945)

1 episode

Profumo affair (1963, UK)

1 episode

Profumo scandal (1963, United Kingdom)

1 episode

Release/recording of Abbey Road (Beatles)

1 episode

Release/recording of Revolver (Beatles)

1 episode

Release/recording of The White Album (Beatles)

1 episode

The Beatles awarded MBEs (1965)

1 episode

Books

492 tagged

Dominion

Author: Tom Holland

14 episodes

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Author: Tom Holland

11 episodes

Heart of Darkness

Author: Joseph Conrad

5 episodes

Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

Author: Tom Holland

4 episodes

Adventures in Time: Fury of the Vikings

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

3 episodes

An American Melodrama

Author: Lewis Chester; Godfrey Hodgson; Bruce Page

3 episodes

Flashman (series )

Author: George MacDonald Fraser

3 episodes

King James Bible

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

3 episodes

Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith

Author: Andrew Preston

3 episodes

The Paranoid Style in American Politics

Author: Richard Hofstadter

3 episodes

Watching the Door

Author: Kevin Myers

3 episodes

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

Author: Rana Mitter

2 episodes

Adventures in Time: Nelson, a Hero of the Seas

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

2 episodes

Aftermath

Author: Harold Jena

2 episodes

Animal Farm

Author: George Orwell

2 episodes

Authors Take Sides on the Falklands

Author: Jean Moorcroft Woolf, Cecil & Wilson

2 episodes

Billy Bunter (series)

Author: Charles Hamilton (pen name Frank Richards)

2 episodes

Biographies of Lyndon B. Johnson (by Robert Caro)

Author: Robert Caro

2 episodes

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

Author: Rana Mitter

2 episodes

Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution

Author: Simon Schama

2 episodes

Death of a Salesman

Author: Arthur Miller

2 episodes

Football Nation

Author: David Goldblatt

2 episodes

In the Shadow of the Sword

Author: Tom Holland

2 episodes

Just William (series)

Author: Richmal Crompton

2 episodes

La Peste (The Plague)

Author: Albert Camus

2 episodes

Le Premier Homme (The First Man)

Author: Albert Camus

2 episodes

Les Misérables

Author: Victor Hugo

2 episodes

Libra

Author: Don DeLillo

2 episodes

Loyalists

Author: Peter Taylor

2 episodes

Moonraker

Author: Ian Fleming

2 episodes

Never Had It So Good

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

2 episodes

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Author: George Orwell

2 episodes

Parkland

Author: Vincent Bugliosi

2 episodes

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

Author: Tom Holland

2 episodes

Reagan: His Life and Legend

Author: Max Boot

2 episodes

Rush to Judgment

Author: Mark Lane

2 episodes

Seasons in the Sun

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

2 episodes

Shooting an Elephant

Author: George Orwell

2 episodes

Spycatcher

Author: Peter Wright

2 episodes

The Handmaid's Tale

Author: Margaret Atwood

2 episodes

The Honorary Consul

Author: Graham Greene

2 episodes

The Iliad

Author: Homer

2 episodes

The Myth of Sisyphus

Author: Albert Camus

2 episodes

The Politics of Rage

Author: Dan Carter

2 episodes

The Rest is History: History's Most Curious Questions Answered

Author: Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook

2 episodes

The Satanic Verses

Author: Salman Rushdie

2 episodes

The Thirty-Nine Steps

Author: John Buchan

2 episodes

The World Crisis

Author: Winston Churchill

2 episodes

The Wretched of the Earth

Author: Frantz Fanon

2 episodes

Theodore Roosevelt's memoir

Author: Theodore Roosevelt

2 episodes

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Author: John le Carré

2 episodes

Ulysses

Author: James Joyce

2 episodes

Winnie-the-Pooh

Author: A. A. Milne

2 episodes

1066 and All That

Author: W. C. Sellar & R. J. Yeatman

1 episode

1491 - New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

Author: Charles C. Mann

1 episode

1493 - Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

Author: Charles C. Mann

1 episode

1944

Author: Jay Winnick

1 episode

1983: The World at the Brink

Author: Taylor Downing

1 episode

31 Days: Gerald Ford, the Nixon Pardon and a Government in Crisis

Author: Barry Werth

1 episode

33 Revolutions Per Minute, A History of Protest Songs

Author: Dorian Linsky

1 episode

A Certain Sense of France

Author: Julian Jackson

1 episode

A Christmas Carol

Author: Charles Dickens

1 episode

A Clockwork Orange

Author: Anthony Burgess

1 episode

A Distant Mirror

Author: Barbara Tuchman

1 episode

A Man in Havana

Author: Graham Greene

1 episode

A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts

Author: Andrew Chakin

1 episode

A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888–1889

Author: Frederick Morton

1 episode

A Place of Greater Safety

Author: Hilary Mantel

1 episode

A Proposal for Making an Effectual Provision for the Poor

Author: Henry Fielding

1 episode

A Spy Who Loved Me

Author: Ian Fleming

1 episode

A Spy in the House of Love

Author: N. L. Eisenin

1 episode

A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain

Author: Daniel Defoe

1 episode

A Traitor to His Class

Author: H.W. Brands

1 episode

Aberystwyth Mon Amour

Author: Malcolm Price

1 episode

Absolute Beginners

Author: Colin McInnes

1 episode

Action Comics No. 1

Author: Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster

1 episode

Adventure in Time (Series)

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

1 episode

Adventure in Time, the Fall of the Aztecs

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

1 episode

Agent Sonya

Author: Ben McIntyre

1 episode

Agent Zigzag

Author: Ben McIntyre

1 episode

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Author: Lewis Carroll

1 episode

All the President's Men

Author: Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

1 episode

Almey's Volley

Author: Joseph Conrad

1 episode

American Notes

Author: Charles Dickens

1 episode

American Prometheus

Author: Ky Bird; Martin J. Schoen

1 episode

American Tabloid

Author: James Ellroy

1 episode

American Way of Death

Author: Jessica Mitford

1 episode

An American Uprising

Author: Kate Warren

1 episode

An Officer and a Spy

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

Angels with Dirty Faces

Author: Jonathan Wilson

1 episode

Apocalyptic Islam and Iranian Shiism

Author: Abbas Aminat

1 episode

April 1865

Author: Jay Winnick

1 episode

Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches

Author: Charles Godfrey Leland

1 episode

Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA

Author: Richard English

1 episode

Asterix (comic series)

Author: René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo

1 episode

Austerity Britain

Author: David Kinnerston

1 episode

Australian Dictionary of Biography

Author: Various

1 episode

Avedon at Work in the American West

Author: Laura Wilson

1 episode

Behold a Pale Horse

Author: Milton William Cooper

1 episode

Ben-Hur

Author: Lew Wallace

1 episode

Beyond Black

Author: Hilary Mantel

1 episode

Beyond the Boundary

Author: C. L. R. James

1 episode

Beyond the Wall

Author: Katja Heuer

1 episode

Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949 to 1990

Author: Katja Heuer

1 episode

Bhagavad Gita

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Biographies of William Gladstone and Winston Churchill

Author: Roy Jenkins

1 episode

Biography of Charles II

Author: Ronald Hutton

1 episode

Biography of Henry Kissinger

Author: Niall Ferguson

1 episode

Biography of Khomeini

Author: Baqir Moin

1 episode

Biography of Robert Peel

Author: Douglas Hurd

1 episode

Black Like Me

Author: John Howard Griffin

1 episode

Bleak House

Author: Charles Dickens

1 episode

Blonde

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

1 episode

Blood Meridian

Author: Cormac McCarthy

1 episode

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Author: Timothy Snyder

1 episode

Bonfire of the Vanities

Author: Tom Wolfe

1 episode

Borderlines: A History of Europe Told from the Edges

Author: Lewis

1 episode

Born on the Fourth of July

Author: Ron Kovic

1 episode

Boswell's Life of Johnson

Author: James Boswell

1 episode

Brave New World

Author: Aldous Huxley

1 episode

Brazil Biography

Author: Lilia Schwartz and Eloisa Stirling

1 episode

Brazilian Adventure

Author: Peter Fleming

1 episode

Brideshead Revisited

Author: Evelyn Waugh

1 episode

Brilliant Orange

Author: David Winner

1 episode

Britain Against Itself

Author: Samuel Beer

1 episode

Brits: The War Against the IRA

Author: Peter Taylor

1 episode

Bulldog Drummond (series)

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

1 episode

Casino 44: Five Months of Hell in Italy

Author: James Holland

1 episode

Casino Royale

Author: Ian Fleming

1 episode

Chamela

Author: Henry Fielding

1 episode

Charlie Wilson's War

Author: George Crile

1 episode

Checkpoint Charlie

Author: Ian McGregor

1 episode

China at War

Author: Hans van der Ven

1 episode

China's Good War

Author: Rana Mitter

1 episode

Choosing War

Author: Fred Logevall

1 episode

Cicero's Republic

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero

1 episode

Citizen Clem

Author: John Butte

1 episode

City Close Up

Author: Jeremy Seabrook

1 episode

Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

Author: Vladislav Zubok

1 episode

Concerning Beards

Author: Alan Withy

1 episode

Culture and Imperialism

Author: Edward Said

1 episode

Darkness at Noon

Author: Arthur Koestler

1 episode

Das Kapital

Author: Karl Marx

1 episode

Days in May: How Germany's War Ended

Author: Volker Ulrich

1 episode

Dead Babies

Author: Martin Amis

1 episode

Demons

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

1 episode

Dirty Hands

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

1 episode

Discipline and Punish

Author: Michel Foucault

1 episode

Disorder, Hard Times in the 21st Century

Author: Helen Thompson

1 episode

Down and Out in Paris and London

Author: George Orwell

1 episode

Downing Street Diary: With Harold Wilson in Number 10

Author: Bernard Donahue

1 episode

Dr No

Author: Ian Fleming

1 episode

Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

Author: Tom Holland

1 episode

Empireland

Author: Satnam Sanghera

1 episode

English Journey

Author: J. B. Priestley

1 episode

Esoteric Astrology, Secrets Revealed

Author: Jose Lopez Rega

1 episode

Everything is Good

Author: Dorian Linsky

1 episode

Exile and the Kingdom

Author: Albert Camus

1 episode

Exterminate All the Brutes

Author: Sven Linkvist

1 episode

Facial Hair and the Performance of Early Modern Masculinity

Author: Dr Eleanor Rycroft

1 episode

Fahrenheit 451

Author: Ray Bradbury

1 episode

Farewell to the Horse

Author: Ulrich Rapp

1 episode

Faults of Qin

Author: Jia Yi

1 episode

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Author: Hunter S. Thompson

1 episode

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail

Author: Hunter S. Thompson

1 episode

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

Author: Hunter S. Thompson

1 episode

Flashman and the Mountain of Light

Author: George MacDonald Fraser

1 episode

Flashman at the Charge

Author: George MacDonald Fraser

1 episode

Fodor's guide to Egypt

Author: Fodor's Travel Guides

1 episode

Folklore, Myths, and Legends of Britain (Readers' Digest)

Author: Readers' Digest Association

1 episode

Forgotten Victory: The First World War, Myths and Realities

Author: Gary Sheffield

1 episode

Foundation (series)

Author: Isaac Asimov

1 episode

Four Days in November

Author: Vincent Bugliosi

1 episode

Four Quartets

Author: T. S. Eliot

1 episode

Franco's Crypt

Author: Jeremy Trelawn

1 episode

Frankenstein

Author: Mary Shelley

1 episode

From Russia with Love

Author: Ian Fleming

1 episode

From the Wall to the Sea

Author: William Han

1 episode

Frustrate Their Navist Tricks

Author: Ben Pimlott

1 episode

Fu Manchu (series)

Author: Sax Rohmer

1 episode

George Orwell: English Rebel

Author: Robert Coles

1 episode

Ghosts of Iron Mountain

Author: Phil Tinline

1 episode

God Beneath the Sea

Author: Leon Garfield

1 episode

Goldfinger

Author: Ian Fleming

1 episode

Great Expectations

Author: Charles Dickens

1 episode

Greenmantle

Author: John Buchan

1 episode

Groovy Bob

Author: Harriet Viner

1 episode

Guests of the Ayatollah

Author: Mark Bowden

1 episode

Guilty Men

Author: Cato (Pseudonymous)

1 episode

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Author: Jared Diamond

1 episode

Hamlet

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Harry Potter (series)

Author: J. K. Rowling

1 episode

Helter Skelter

Author: Vincent Bugliosi

1 episode

Heretics and Believers

Author: Peter Marshall

1 episode

High Minds

Author: Simon Heffer

1 episode

High-Rise

Author: J. G. Ballard

1 episode

History of Argentina

Author: Jonathan Wilson

1 episode

History of Hungary

Author: Jonathan Wilson

1 episode

History of the Second World War

Author: Alan Alport

1 episode

Holy Blood and the Holy Grail

Author: Michael Baigent; Richard Leigh; Henry Lincoln

1 episode

Homage to Catalonia

Author: George Orwell

1 episode

How Britain Brought Football to the World

Author: Lay Cox

1 episode

How Britain Brought Football to the World

Author: Stuart Laycock and Philip Laycock

1 episode

How to Survive the Titanic

Author: Francis Wilson

1 episode

Human Events (magazine)

Author: Various

1 episode

Hurrah for the Blackshirts

Author: Martin Pugh

1 episode

Hurry On Down

Author: John Wain

1 episode

I, Claudius

Author: Robert Graves

1 episode

In Cold Blood

Author: Truman Capote

1 episode

In Portugal

Author: Aubrey Bell

1 episode

In Pursuit of Love

Author: Nancy Mitford

1 episode

In Time of the Breaking of Nations

Author: Thomas Hardy

1 episode

Inventing the Way of the Samurai: Nationalism, Internationalism and Bushido in Modern Japan

Author: Oleg Benesh

1 episode

James Bond novels

Author: Ian Fleming

1 episode

John Julius Norwich's trilogy

Author: John Julius Norwich

1 episode

John and Paul

Author: Ian Leslie

1 episode

Joseph Andrews

Author: Henry Fielding

1 episode

Jungle Fever

Author: Jean‑Paul Gould

1 episode

Jurassic Park

Author: Michael Crichton

1 episode

Jurassic Park

Author: Michael Cryton

1 episode

Kim

Author: Rudyard Kipling

1 episode

Kindred

Author: Rebecca Ragsykes

1 episode

King Leopold's Ghost

Author: Adam Hochschild

1 episode

King Leopold's Soliloquy

Author: Mark Twain

1 episode

Kingdom by the Sea

Author: Paul Theroux

1 episode

L'étranger (The Stranger / Outsider)

Author: Albert Camus

1 episode

La Bête Humaine

Author: Émile Zola

1 episode

La Reine Margot

Author: Alexandre Dumas

1 episode

Labour Party manifesto (1983) — "the longest suicide note in history"

Author: Labour Party

1 episode

Ladybird books

Author: L. Du Garde Peach (and various)

1 episode

Leaders

Author: Richard Nixon

1 episode

Les Justes

Author: Albert Camus

1 episode

Les Mots et les Choses

Author: Michel Foucault

1 episode

Library of America two-volume edition of war reporting from Vietnam

Author: Library of America

1 episode

Like the Roman

Author: Simon Heffer

1 episode

Little Englanders

Author: Alwyn Turner

1 episode

Live and Let Die

Author: Ian Fleming

1 episode

Lives

Author: Plutarch

1 episode

Lonely Planet Guide to West Africa

Author: Lonely Planet

1 episode

Looking at History

Author: R. J. Unstead

1 episode

Love in a Cold Climate

Author: Nancy Mitford

1 episode

Lucky Jim

Author: Kingsley Amis

1 episode

Madame Bovary

Author: Gustave Flaubert

1 episode

Making Mary Poppins

Author: Todd James Pierce

1 episode

Man with the Golden Gun

Author: Ian Fleming

1 episode

Mao's Last Revolution

Author: Roderick Farquhar and Michael Schoenhals

1 episode

Martin Chuzzlewit

Author: Charles Dickens

1 episode

Mary Poppins

Author: P. L. Travers

1 episode

Memoirs (Nixon's memoirs)

Author: Richard Nixon

1 episode

Miami in the Seige of Chicago

Author: Norman Mailer

1 episode

Midnight's Children

Author: Salman Rushdie

1 episode

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

Author: Tom Holland

1 episode

Mission to Iran

Author: William Sullivan

1 episode

Molesworth stories

Author: Mary Louisa Molesworth

1 episode

Monographs on Stalin (unspecified titles)

Author: Stephen Kotkin

1 episode

Munich

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

My Secret Planet

Author: Denis Healey

1 episode

Naming Names

Author: Victor Novasky

1 episode

Napoleon in Egypt

Author: Paul Strothern

1 episode

Napoleon the Great

Author: Andrew Roberts

1 episode

Neuromancer

Author: William Gibson

1 episode

Never Turn Back

Author: Julian DeWerts

1 episode

News from Tartary

Author: Peter Fleming

1 episode

Not Just Pictures

Author: Chris Floyd

1 episode

Octopussy

Author: Ian Fleming

1 episode

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Author: Ian Fleming

1 episode

On the Origin of Species

Author: Charles Darwin

1 episode

Ones and Rebels

Author: Jessica Mitford

1 episode

Operation Mincemeat

Author: Ben McIntyre

1 episode

Oration on the Dignity of Man

Author: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

1 episode

Orientalism

Author: Edward Said

1 episode

Ornamentalism

Author: David Candidine

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

Pale Rider

Author: Laura Spinney

1 episode

Pamela

Author: Samuel Richardson

1 episode

Pilgrim's Way

Author: John Buchan

1 episode

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

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

1 episode

Poems (1907)

Author: Illaer Belloch

1 episode

Pogonotomy or The Art of Shaving One's Self

Author: Jean-Jacques Perrette

1 episode

Pompidou anthology (anthology of French poetry)

Author: Georges Pompidou

1 episode

Portugal in the Future

Author: Antonio Spinola

1 episode

Queen of the World: The Global Biography

Author: Robert Hardman

1 episode

Quotations from Chairman Mao (The Little Red Book)

Author: Lin Biao (compiler attributed in discussion)

1 episode

Quotations from Chairman Mao (The Little Red Book)

Author: Mao Zedong

1 episode

Rabbit series

Author: John Updike

1 episode

Raw Hide Down

Author: Del Quentin Wilbur

1 episode

Reader's Digest

Author: Readers' Digest Association

1 episode

Reagan in His Own Hand

Author: George P. Shultz

1 episode

Reagan's America, Innocence at Home in the '80s

Author: Gary Wills

1 episode

Reclaiming History

Author: Vincent Bugliosi

1 episode

Red Storm Rising

Author: Tom Clancy

1 episode

Reggie: The Life of Reginald Maudling

Author: Lewis Baston

1 episode

Report from Iron Mountain

Author: Leonard Lewin

1 episode

Rerum Novarum

Author: Pope Leo XIII

1 episode

Revolution in Iran

Author: Michael Axworthy

1 episode

Richard Nixon: The Life

Author: John A. Farrell

1 episode

Rise and Kill First

Author: Ronan Bergman

1 episode

River Kings

Author: Kat Jarman

1 episode

Roar Hyde Down

Author: Del Quentin Wilbur

1 episode

Robinson Crusoe

Author: Daniel Defoe

1 episode

Romeo and Juliet

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Roots

Author: Alex Halley

1 episode

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Author: Omar Khayyam; translated by Edward FitzGerald

1 episode

SAS Rogue Heroes

Author: Ben McIntyre

1 episode

Sailing

Author: Jonathan Rabban

1 episode

Santa Evita

Author: Tomás Martínez

1 episode

Say Nothing

Author: Patrick Radden‑Keefe

1 episode

Scarlet Memorial

Author: Zheng Yi

1 episode

Seasons in the Sun

Author: Tom Holland

1 episode

Servants

Author: Lucy Lethbridge

1 episode

Shah of Shahs

Author: Richard Kapuscinski

1 episode

Small Is Beautiful

Author: E. F. Schumacher

1 episode

Smiley's People

Author: John le Carré

1 episode

Spartacus

Author: Howard Fast

1 episode

Speak for Britain! A New History of the Labour Party

Author: Martin Pugh

1 episode

Sport, a Prism of Measured Time

Author: Jean‑Marie Broum

1 episode

Spring and Summer Annals - Official chronicle of the State of Lu covering the period from 722 BCE to 481 BCE

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Spy Among Friends

Author: Ben McIntyre

1 episode

Stiff

Author: Susan Faludi

1 episode

Stone Alone

Author: Bill Wyman

1 episode

Storm's Edge

Author: Peter Marshall

1 episode

Suburban Warriors

Author: Lisa McGurr

1 episode

Summits

Author: David Reynolds

1 episode

Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero

Author: Grant Morrison

1 episode

Tales of the City

Author: Armistead Morpan

1 episode

Teenage

Author: John Savage

1 episode

That Printer of Udels

Author: Harold Bell Wright

1 episode

The ABC Murders

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

The Aeneid

Author: Virgil

1 episode

The Americanisation of the World

Author: W. T. Stead

1 episode

The Art of the Deal

Author: Donald Trump

1 episode

The Atlantic Slave Trade, A Census

Author: Philip D. Curtin

1 episode

The Beast in the Jungle

Author: Henry James

1 episode

The Beggar's Opera

Author: John Gay

1 episode

The Best and the Brightest

Author: Hal Blastam

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 Book of the Dead

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

The Brothers Karamazov

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

1 episode

The Canterbury Tales

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

1 episode

The Claiming History

Author: Vincent Bugliosi

1 episode

The Commissar Vanishes

Author: David King

1 episode

The Communist Manifesto

Author: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

1 episode

The Communist Manifesto

Author: Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels

1 episode

The Crucible

Author: Arthur Miller

1 episode

The Cultural Revolution

Author: Frank de Kutter

1 episode

The Da Vinci Code

Author: Dan Brown

1 episode

The Dark Is Rising (series)

Author: Susan Cooper

1 episode

The Dark Knight Returns

Author: Frank Miller

1 episode

The Dark Room at Longwood

Author: Jean-Paul Kaufman

1 episode

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

Author: David Graeber; David Wengrae

1 episode

The Day of the Jackal

Author: Frederick Forsyth

1 episode

The Death of Consensus

Author: Phil Tinline

1 episode

The Definitive History of the Mona Lisa

Author: Donald Sassoon

1 episode

The Descent of Man

Author: Charles Darwin

1 episode

The Devils (aka The Possessed)

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

1 episode

The Dinosaur Heresies

Author: Bob Backer

1 episode

The Disney Version

Author: Richard Schickel

1 episode

The Eagle Unbowed

Author: Halik Kochanski

1 episode

The Earliest Englishman

Author: Arthur Smith Woodward

1 episode

The Edible Woman

Author: Margaret Atwood

1 episode

The Emerging Republican Majority

Author: Kevin Phillips

1 episode

The End of History

Author: Francis Fukuyama

1 episode

The End of the Affair

Author: Graham Greene

1 episode

The Female Eunuch

Author: Germaine Greer

1 episode

The Forgotten People

Author: Robert Menzies

1 episode

The Future of Socialism

Author: Anthony Crosland

1 episode

The Gardener

Author: Rudyard Kipling

1 episode

The Geometry of Love

Author: Margaret Visser

1 episode

The Ghost of Thomas Kemp

Author: Penelope Lively

1 episode

The Gospel of Wealth

Author: Andrew Carnegie

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 Way

Author: Edith Hamilton

1 episode

The Gulag Archipelago

Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1 episode

The Happy Death (L'Amour Heureuse)

Author: Albert Camus

1 episode

The Heart Goes Last

Author: Margaret Atwood

1 episode

The Hidden Hand Presidency

Author: Fred Greenstein

1 episode

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Author: Henry Fielding

1 episode

The Human Hair, Popularly and Physiologically Considered

Author: Alexander Rowland

1 episode

The Hunt for Red October

Author: Tom Clancy

1 episode

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes

Author: Jonathan Rose

1 episode

The Intellectuals and the Masses

Author: John Carey

1 episode

The Interpretation of Dreams

Author: Sigmund Freud

1 episode

The Jungle Book

Author: Roger Kipling

1 episode

The Klansman

Author: Thomas Dixon

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 Life of the First Emperor

Author: Hong Shidi

1 episode

The Lion and the Unicorn

Author: George Orwell

1 episode

The Little Drummer Girl

Author: John le Carré

1 episode

The Lives of the Engineers

Author: Samuel Smiles

1 episode

The Lord of the Flies

Author: William Golding

1 episode

The Lord of the Rings

Author: J. R. R. Tolkien

1 episode

The Lost World

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

1 episode

The Making of Oliver Cromwell

Author: Ronald Hutton

1 episode

The Making of the President (1960)

Author: Theodore H. White

1 episode

The Man Who Would Be King

Author: Rudyard Kipling

1 episode

The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe

Author: Sarah Churchwell

1 episode

The Mask of Dimitrios

Author: Eric Ambler

1 episode

The Merceau Investigation

Author: Kamel Daud

1 episode

The Mighty Warlitzer

Author: Hugh Wilford

1 episode

The Murder of Brian Jones

Author: Anna Volin

1 episode

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Author: Charles Dickens

1 episode

The Name of the Rose

Author: Umberto Eco

1 episode

The New Look

Author: Harry Hopkins

1 episode

The Nightingale

Author: Hans Christian Andersen

1 episode

The Northumbrians

Author: Dan Jackson

1 episode

The Open Veins of Latin America

Author: Eduardo Galeano

1 episode

The Piltdown Man Hoax Case Closed

Author: Miles Russell

1 episode

The Pina Jay File

Author: Peter Kornblum

1 episode

The Power Broker

Author: Robert Caro

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 Prince

Author: Niccolò Machiavelli

1 episode

The Princess Bride

Author: William Goldman

1 episode

The Prize

Author: Daniel Yergin

1 episode

The Proper Function of Man

Author: Jack London

1 episode

The Quiet American

Author: Graham Greene

1 episode

The Rats

Author: James Herbert

1 episode

The Remains of the Day

Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

1 episode

The Renaissance Beard

Author: William Fisher

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 Romantic Agony

Author: Mario Pras

1 episode

The Rotters Club

Author: Jonathan Coe

1 episode

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Author: Baroness Emmuska Orczy

1 episode

The Secret History

Author: Procopius (Procopius of Caesarea)

1 episode

The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The Untold Story of the International Spy Network

Author: Richard Cabage

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

Author: Joe McGuinness

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 Sound of the City

Author: Charlie Gillick

1 episode

The Spy and the Traitor

Author: Ben McIntyre

1 episode

The Stations of the Sun

Author: Ronald Hutton

1 episode

The Tailor of Panama

Author: John le Carré

1 episode

The Teenage Revolution

Author: Peter Laurie

1 episode

The Teenage Revolution

Author: Peter Lorry

1 episode

The Testaments

Author: Margaret Atwood

1 episode

The Thief Who Stole Nothing, A Volume of the Time Chronicles

Author: David Hunt; Roderick Hunt; Alex Brichter

1 episode

The Third World War

Author: General Sir John Hackett

1 episode

The Three Hostages

Author: John Buchan

1 episode

The Three Musketeers

Author: Alexandre Dumas

1 episode

The Troubles

Author: Tim Pat Coogan

1 episode

The Wall and the Books

Author: Jorge Luis Borges

1 episode

The Wolf Girl, The Greeks and The Gods

Author: Tom Holland

1 episode

The World of Late Antiquity

Author: Peter Brown

1 episode

The Year That Broke Politics

Author: Luke A. Nickter

1 episode

The Year That Broke Politics

Author: Luke A. Nicter

1 episode

The Young Meteors

Author: Jonathan Aiken

1 episode

The prime minister of the spy

Author: Anthony Gray

1 episode

This House

Author: James Graham

1 episode

Three Revolutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the epic journeys that changed the world

Author: Simon Hall

1 episode

Thunder at Twilight

Author: Frederick Morton

1 episode

Tintin (comic series)

Author: Hergé

1 episode

To the Finland Station

Author: Edmund Wilson

1 episode

Tom Brown's School Days

Author: Thomas Hughes

1 episode

Tourists

Author: Lucy Lethbridge

1 episode

Twelve Years a Slave

Author: Solomon Northup

1 episode

Twiggy by Twiggy

Author: Twiggy (Leslie Hornby)

1 episode

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

1 episode

Unlikely Partners

Author: Julian DeWerts

1 episode

Utopia

Author: Thomas More

1 episode

Vanished Kingdoms

Author: Norman Davis

1 episode

Very Short Introduction: American diplomatic history since the Revolution

Author: Andrew Preston

1 episode

Vietnam, The Necessary War

Author: Michael Lin

1 episode

Voitek the Bear, Polish War Hero

Author: Eileen Orr

1 episode

Walt Disney: The Biography

Author: Neil Gabler

1 episode

War and Peace

Author: Leo Tolstoy

1 episode

War memoirs (quote: "All my life I've had a certain idea of France")

Author: Charles de Gaulle

1 episode

Watchmen

Author: Alan Moore

1 episode

Westworld

Author: Michael Crichton

1 episode

What Good Are the Arts?

Author: John Carey

1 episode

Who Dares Wins

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

1 episode

Who Killed Kennedy

Author: Thomas Buchanan

1 episode

Why I Became a Conservative

Author: Roger Scruton

1 episode

Windrush

Author: Trevor Phillips; Mike Phillips

1 episode

Windrush, 75 Years of Modern Britain

Author: Trevor Phillips; Mike Phillips

1 episode

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