A History of Contraception
The last episode of the series looks at the embarrassing business of contraception down the ages. Can you avoid pregnancy by eating a bee? Would you u...
We Are History
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The less-than-serious history podcast with stand up comedian Angela Barnes (The News Quiz, Mock The Week and Live at The Apollo) and writer John O'Farrell (An Utterly Impartial History of Britain, Things Can Only Get Better, Spitting Image). In each podcast our two history nerds discuss, explain and laugh at interesting and quirky episodes from the olden days, such as East German Nudism, Spy Pigeons or Vlad the Impaler. Angela and John’s in-depth knowledge of world history has been described as ‘laughable’ - and now they read the history books so that you don't have to. The We Are History podcast - not as world-changing as the Black Death, but slightly funnier.
The Thorpe Affair
How the 1970s Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe attempted to hide his longstanding gay affair by having his lover shot. But the British public felt he'd go...
The Bay of Pigs - Cuba 1961
When America was shocked to see their neighbour Cuba going socialist, they trained and armed a group of Cuban exiles to invade, confident in the knowl...
The Campaign Against Women's Suffrage
Meet the men and women who worked hard to try and stop women having the vote. Learn all about their fascinating arguments and deep concerns. And when ...
The Agapemonites - the Victorian religious love cult
The Victorian English gentleman who announced he was the Son of God, and proceeded to have carnal relations with various attractive young ladies in hi...
The Scopes Monkey Trial
Tennessee in 1925, and a young school teacher is put on trial for teaching his students about evolution. The dramatic trial grips the whole of America...
A History of Marriage
How did the institution of marriage evolve down the centuries in Britain? With Angela getting married this year, she thought she would make her fella ...
The fall of Thatcher - 1990
John and Angela examine the rapid chain of events that led to the shock resignation of Margaret Thatcher, in their most balanced and even-handed podca...
Elizabethan child actors
In a time when women were not allowed to perform on the stage, children were sometimes kidnapped and forced to become actors against their will. (Warn...
The Abdication Crisis - 1936
Back in 1936 the newspapers were utterly scandalised by a British royal abandoning his stately duties to run off with a controversial divorced America...