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Subject to Change

by Russell Hogg
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  • Jonathan Clements on the fall of the Ming - (pt 2 of 2) - The Knight of the National Name

    October 12, 2026 · 48 min

    In part 2 of the story the hero finally arrives. Coxinga. Loyal subject of the Ming emperor or disobedient child?  Coxinga is the son of Nicholas Iquan who made the journey from outlaw trader/pirate to Ming admiral. Iquan must have…

  • Jonathan Clements on the fall of the Ming (pt 1 of 2) - death by a thousand haircuts

    September 28, 2026 · 46 min

    Jonathan Clements is back to talk about Coxinga and the Fall of the Ming Dynasty, a tale so convoluted that its hero only gets born at the end of episode one! What happened in 17th century China for the Manchu invaders to just roll on in…

  • The Odyssey - No sex, terrible food

    September 8, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

    Armand D'Angour (Professor of Classics at Oxford University and Fellow of Jesus College) gives his take on Chrisopher Nolan's Odyssey and (more to the point) talks about the poem and the poet. Along the way we talk about Emily Wilson's…

  • The U-Boat Stink

    August 17, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

    At the start of WW2 the U-Boat threat gave the British sleepless nights. But even during the Happy Time (of which there were two) when ships were being sunk at a terrific rate the German effort was too little, too late. And then the war in…

  • Lucy Hughes-Hallett on Gabriele D’Annunzio: Poet, Lover, Monster

    July 27, 2026 · 1 hr 18 min

    This one is about Gabriele D'Annunzio. Italian poet, born in 1863 . . . I can already sense your attention drifting. But hang in there!  A more lurid description would be that he is the poet who seduced over a thousand women. It is still…

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  • Crimea (part 3): The Nazis, Stalin and the bitter end

    July 6, 2026 · 42 min

    Professor Donald Rayfield picks up Crimea’s story in spring 1942, when Germany turns south for the Black Sea and oil. Some Tartars can't imagine anyone worse than Stalin. Some can't imagine anyone worse than Hitler. Tragically, they are…

  • Crimea (part 2): from the Golden Horde to Catherine the Great

    June 15, 2026 · 56 min

    Donald Rayfield returns for the second of three episodes on Crimea — this time taking the long view, from the Mongol Golden Horde to Catherine the Great's annexation and the early Soviet period. At its height the Crimean Khanate was a…

  • POWs of the Crimean War

    May 22, 2026 · 47 min

    The subject today comes out of the Crimean war (1853-1856). I talked to Professor Donald Rayfield, Emeritus Professor of Russian and Georgian history at Queen Mary University of London, about the war itself and in particular what happened…

  • The Return of the Emperor (Justinian II - part 2)

    April 27, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

    Part 1 of the podcast told the sad story of how some shocking misjudgements on the part of Justinian saw him dragged to the Hippodrome where a man with a pair of pliers cut off his nose, cut out his tongue. But in a misjudgement every bit…

  • Mutilated and exiled (the Emperor Justinian II - part 1)

    April 20, 2026 · 47 min

    Justinian II becomes emperor at sixteen. Even allowing for the hostility of our sources the reign is not all plain sailing. I'm joined by Professor David Parnell to work through the first half of one of Byzantium's most extraordinary…

  • Buckingham: the most hated man in England

    March 31, 2026 · 1 hr 18 min

    You don't have to be young and beautiful to get ahead in Stuart England but it really doesn't hurt. The is the story of 'gorgeous George' - that is to say George Villiers (later Duke of Buckingham) who in his early 20's became the…

  • YEAR ZERO: Jonathan Clements on the First Emperor of China

    March 10, 2026 · 1 hr 20 min

    Jonathan Clements returns to talk about his book on the First Emperor of China and the man who was sent to kill him: facts and fictions in Zhang Yimou’s movie Hero (2002), the evil mirror-universe version of Confucianism, an impossibly…

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About the show

I talk to the world's best historians and let them tell the stories. And the stories are wonderful! (And occasionally I change the subject and talk about films, philosophy or whatever!).