Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore historical connections to today's big issues.Recent political convulsions have revealed a rift between the UK's capital and its regions. So this week Tom and Iszi consider other moments in history when Lond

Film

Jan 28th, 2020 28m 9s

With this year's Oscars imminent, Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence meet the cineasts who help us understand history and the history of cinema.Hannah Grieg, historical consultant on the Oscar-winning film The Favourite, and the screenwriter of Chur

High Flyers

Jan 21st, 2020 28m 5s

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence continue to explore the historical connections behind today's headlines. As the first electric commercial aircraft takes flight in Vancouver, Tom and Iszi look at the lengths people have gone to over the past mille

Keeping It In The Family

Jan 14th, 2020 28m 6s

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence present the show that explores the historical connections behind today's issues.As fascination with genealogy and our own family history has become almost a national obsession, this week's programme looks at the

Food

Jan 7th, 2020 28m 5s

After the feast of the festive season comes the pain of the January fast. Well, to help us better understand our relationship with the food we eat, Making History goes on the spice trail with historians Roger Michel and Matthew Cobb. Curator Vi

Back to the Future

Dec 31st, 2019 28m 9s

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence present the show that explores the historical connections behind today's issues.In this New Year's Eve programme, Tom and Iszi look at what history has had to say about the future. They explore when "the future" em

Nationalism

Dec 17th, 2019 28m 6s

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence continue to explore the historical connections behind today's headlines. Today - with a resurgence in nationalism from Beijing to Barcelona and with flag-flying dominating the world news, Tom and Iszi look into the

The First Draft?

Dec 10th, 2019 27m 57s

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence are back to explore the historical connections behind today's issues. In this programme - The First Draft? After the most tumultuous parliamentary session many can remember, Tom and Iszi meet top journalists to ask

Battle Lines

Feb 19th, 2019 28m 2s

In the last of this series Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence look at the stories around another line in history - battle lines. From the fable of the Nazi invasion across one of Britain's oldest battle lines on Suffolk's beaches, through Thucydides

Bread Lines

Feb 12th, 2019 28m 3s

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence follow history’s story-laden lines and linkages to uncover connections and compelling stories. This week, with food banks and the effects of austerity never far from the headlines, Tom and Iszi examine breadlines

Supply Lines

Feb 5th, 2019 28m 3s

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence follow history’s lines and linkages to uncover connections and compelling stories.This week - Supply LinesWith supply lines after Brexit so much in the news lately, Tom and Iszi look at historical aspects of getti

Power Lines

Jan 29th, 2019 27m 59s

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore the stories revealed by history's lines and linkages to uncover connections and compelling stories. This week - power lines. Tom makes a beeline for the Science Museum to find the first ever transatlantic t

Bloodlines

Jan 22nd, 2019 27m 56s

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence follow history’s lines and linkages to uncover connections and compelling stories. This week, with the imminent arrival of a new Royal baby, Tom and Iszi examine bloodlines - from some of the Queen’s own surprising

Borders

Jan 16th, 2019 27m 54s

With Donald Trump’s Mexican wall back in the news, Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence follow history’s lines and linkages to discover how Britain’s borders have been used to separate communities.Tom travels to Offa’s Dyke to find out how the 176-mil

HS2

Jan 8th, 2019 27m 29s

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence follow history’s lines and linkages to uncover connections and compelling stories.As the new HS2 rail link between London and Birmingham begins its first construction phase, Tom joins the railway archaeologists who

01/01/2019

Jan 1st, 2019 27m 47s

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence consider fascinating and multi-faceted aspects of history.The new series of this long-running programme focuses on lines - historical and historic lines and routes that may be physical or conceptual and that criss-

The End of Steam. St Edmund. Southall Youth Movement

Jul 24th, 2018 27m 53s

Tom Holland is joined by the history podcaster and stand-up comedian Iszi Lawrence.In Britain's recent past, a long hot summer has often coincided with racial unrest on our streets - 1981 is perhaps the most notable example. But while we rememb

The Clockwork Orange Town

Jul 17th, 2018 27m 52s

Helen Castor is joined by Flora Samuel, Professor of Architecture in the Built Environment at the University of Reading.Tom Holland and Dr Matthew Green take a trip down the Thames to Thamesmead, an overspill "new town" that received its first

Church Pews and the Medieval Weather Forecast

Jul 10th, 2018 27m 47s

Tom Holland presents the history programme which connects the past with today.Enthusiasts for Victorian church architecture are furious that the pews designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in Bath Abbey have been dismantled and removed and are to

The Radio Ballads, Dorothea Lange, Archaeology of the A14

Jul 3rd, 2018 27m 58s

Helen Castor is joined by Professor Lucy Robinson from the University of Sussex.A new exhibition at the Barbican in London features the photography of Dorothea Lange who is best known for her coverage of the dust-bowl depression of mid-west Ame

Pilgrimage, Overseas cricketers, How the ancients helped build Milton Keynes

Jun 26th, 2018 27m 49s

Tom Holland is joined in the studio by Dr Marion Bowman from the Open University.As more and more people become interested in making a pilgrimage, Tonderai Munyevu - the star of the play Black Men Walking - joins with members of the British Pil

Witches, poison and why the hedgehog was unloved in history

Jun 19th, 2018 27m 55s

Helen Castor is joined in the studio by the historian of witchcraft, Professor Owen Davies.Historian Tom Charlton travels to Manningtree in North Essex - the scene, in the 17th century, of a series of witch-trials instigated by the so-called Wi

Coastal change: Overfishing and the death of the seaside

Jun 12th, 2018 27m 56s

Tom Holland is joined by Dr Matthew Green for a programme that's all at sea.Helen Castor is in Great Yarmouth where local people voted overwhelmingly for Brexit. One of their major gripes with Brussels was the detrimental impact they thought EU

Dark tourism, World Cup 1938, The mobile library

Jun 5th, 2018 27m 49s

Helen Castor presents the popular history magazine. She's joined by Dr Jane Hamlett from Royal Holloway University of London.It's 140 years since the UK prison system was nationalised and Iszi Lawrence visits Shrewsbury with Professor Alyson Br