15 Best BBC History Podcasts

1. You're Dead to Me

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The history podcast for people who don't like history... and those who do. Greg Jenner brings together the best names in comedy and history to learn and laugh about the past.
Host Greg Jenner
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Facebook 1.2MTwitter 512.1KInstagram 180.3K Avg Length 36 min Get Email Contact Get Influential Podcasters ContactsGet access to 100k active Podcasters, Influencers in 1500 niche categories.Get targeted media contact list in your niche at your fingertips so you can focus on running your campaign.Email us the categories of Podcasters you want to reach out for your marketing campaign at anuj@feedspot.com Copy email. We'll share active Podcasters list with verified email contacts in an Excel or CSV format.Email us

2. In Our Time

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From the venerable BBC4 Radio, In Our Time skews more toward the Greats (e.g., Seneca; Alexander; Catherine; Frederick; Great Wall of China, the). Which is to say, it goes much further back than many of the others on this list, although there are more recent subjects, too.MORE Host Melvyn Bragg
Producer/Network BBC Radio 4
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.5/5 Avg Length 51 min Get Email Contact

3. Witness History

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History as told by the people who were there.
Producer/Network BBC
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.5/5Facebook 9MTwitter 3.3K Avg Length 11 min Get Email Contact

4. Evil Genius with Russell Kane

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It's good, bad, ugly - and very very funny. Changing the way we see heroes and villains in history.
Host Russell Kane
Producer/Network BBC Sounds
Email ****@offthekerb.co.uk
Apple Rating 4/5Facebook 1.2MTwitter 512.1KInstagram 180.3K Avg Length 40 min Get Email Contact

5. The Documentary Podcast

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A window into our world investigating, exploring and telling stories from everywhere. Original BBC documentary storytelling, bringing the globe to your ears. Award-winning journalism, unheard voices, amazing culture and 'unputdownable' audio. New episodes every week from our teams: documentaries, Assignment, Heart and Soul, In the Studio and OS Conversations.MORE Producer/Network BBC World Service
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.3/5Facebook 61.1MTwitter 41.3M Avg Length 29 min Since Mar 2020 Get Email Contact

6. The History Hour

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A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.
Host Max Pearson
Producer/Network BBC World Service
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Apple Rating 4.3/5Facebook 9MTwitter 561.5KInstagram 456.1K Avg Length 52 min Get Email Contact

7. Sporting Witness

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The inside and personal story of the key moments from sporting history
Producer/Network BBC World Service
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Facebook 9MTwitter 561.5KInstagram 456.1K Avg Length 10 min Get Email Contact

8. The Coming Storm

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A year on from the Capitol Insurrection in Washington DC on 6 January 2021, Gabriel Gatehouse journeys into the dark undergrowth of modern America. He's looking for the origins of the story that drove the crowds to storm the heart of US democracy. From conspiracy-soaked barrooms in 1990s Arkansas, via spies in hotel rooms in the shadow of the Kremlin, to anarchic chatrooms on the early internet, this is a search for the answer to one big question: did this just happen, or is somebody trying to break reality?MORE Host Gabriel Gatehouse
Producer/Network BBC
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Facebook 1.2MTwitter 512.1KInstagram 180.3K Avg Length 31 min Get Email Contact

9. How to Invent a Country

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When did countries become countries? Misha Glenny on the borders, the stories and the people of countries worldwide.
Host Misha Glenny
Producer/Network BBC Radio 4
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Facebook 1.2MTwitter 512.1KInstagram 180.3K Avg Length 35 min Get Email Contact

10. Things Fell Apart

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A series of strange, unexpected human stories from the history of the culture wars. Hosted by BBC Radio 4.
Host Jon Ronson
Producer/Network BBC
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Apple Rating 4.7/5 Avg Length 32 min Get Email Contact

11. Acid Dream: The Great LSD Plot

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In the 1970s it's estimated that about 60% of the world's LSD came from one place: Wales. This is the story of an attempt to start a revolution of the mind, from a Welsh farmhouse.
Producer/Network BBC Radio Wales
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.7/5Facebook 130.6KTwitter 80.9K Avg Length 19 min Get Email Contact

12. What Really Happened in the Nineties?

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Cancel culture, Brexit, identity politics. How did we get here? Did we miss something? Robert Carlyle is here to show us that we did. And it happened in the '90s.
Producer/Network BBC Radio 4
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Apple Rating 4.4/5 Avg Length 14 min Get Email Contact

13. My Moment In History

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Personal stories of lives linked to history. Hosted by BBC Radio.
Producer/Network BBC Local Radio
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Avg Length 12 min Get Email Contact