History Cafe
A podcast by Jon Rosebank, Penelope Middelboe - Wednesdays
290 Episodes
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#112 Loss, love and the struggle to stay alive in 1912
Published: 20/08/2025 -
#31 'Remember, remember, the fifth of November' - Ep 8 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
Published: 13/08/2025 -
#30 'A tall and desperate fellow' - Ep 7 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
Published: 06/08/2025 -
#29 The King's Fear - Ep 6 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
Published: 29/07/2025 -
#28 'A formidable network of secret agents' - Ep 5 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
Published: 23/07/2025 -
#27 'Hellish miners' - Ep 4 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
Published: 16/07/2025 -
#26 Why blow up Parliament anyway? - Ep 3 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
Published: 09/07/2025 -
#25 'Here lieth the Toad' - Ep 2 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
Published: 02/07/2025 -
#24 'There is no state trial so totally devoid of reality' - Ep 1 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
Published: 25/06/2025 -
#67 The King, the lies and the whitewash - Ep 7 Nightmare in the trenches 1914-16
Published: 18/06/2025 -
#66 The British who cheated on the Somme - Ep 6 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16
Published: 11/06/2025 -
#65 Haig's war crime on the Somme - Ep 5 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16
Published: 04/06/2025 -
#64 They had the wrong guns - Ep 4 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16
Published: 28/05/2025 -
#63 The generals never studied how to attack trenches - Ep 3 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16
Published: 21/05/2025 -
#62 They refused to take orders - Ep 2 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914:16
Published: 14/05/2025 -
#61 They just pretended to shoot - Ep 1 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16
Published: 07/05/2025 -
#109 A quietly brilliant palace coup - Ep 3 - 2 May 1937: the king, his wife, their Führer, the lobster
Published: 30/04/2025 -
#108 'I wish, myself, to talk to Hitler' - Ep 2 - 2 May 1937: the King, his wife, their Führer, the lobster
Published: 23/04/2025 -
#07 That Dress - Ep 1 - 2 May 1937: the King, his wife, their Führer, the lobster'
Published: 16/04/2025 -
#111 A live donkey or a dead lion? - Ep 4 Amundsen vs Scott - a very British failure
Published: 09/04/2025
True history storytelling at the History Café. Join BBC Historian Jon Rosebank & HBO, BBC & C4 script and series editor Penelope Middelboe as we give history a new take. Drop in to the History Café weekly on Wednesdays to give old stories a refreshing new brew. 90+ ever-green stand-alone episodes and building... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.