The History of the Twentieth Century

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Latest episodes

• Radio Detection and Ranging

  June 11, 2023 · 44 min

  Theories of strategic bombing in the 1930s suggested that it alone might be enough to win a war. But the development of radar meant that the bomber might not always get through after all.

• 326 War in the Air

  June 4, 2023 · 48 min

  We examine the advances in aviation technology between the World Wars.

• 325 After the Fall

  May 28, 2023 · 48 min

  The world reacts to the Fall of France.

• Plan Red

  May 21, 2023 · 44 min

  After the Dunkirk evacuation, the next stage of the Western offensive began, aimed at capturing Paris and defeating France.

• Operation Dynamo

  May 7, 2023 · 54 min

  After German armor cut off the Allied First Army Group in Belgium, the Royal Navy attempts an evacuation of the trapped forces from the port of Dunkirk.

• Plan Yellow

  April 30, 2023 · 45 min

  After months of delays and a diversion into Denmark and Norway, Hitler finally gets his Western offensive.

• Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat

  April 23, 2023 · 40 min

  The Allied debacle in Norway sparked a revolt in the British Parliament against the Chamberlain government's conduct of the war.

• Operation Weserübung

  April 16, 2023 · 40 min

  Improbably, the nation of Norway finds itself the front line of the Second World War.