15 Best BBC History Podcasts

1. You're Dead to Me

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.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Host Greg Jenner
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.7 / 5Facebook Followers 925.9KInstagram Followers 33.3K Frequency 2 episodes / week Avg Length 37 min Listen on Apple YouTube Play 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

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.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.5 / 5 Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 53 min Listen on Apple YouTube Play Get Email Contact

3. Witness History

History as told by the people who were there.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.5 / 5Facebook Followers 7.2MTwitter Followers 3.4K Frequency 1 episode / day Avg Length 10 min Listen on Apple YouTube Play Get Email Contact

4. Evil Genius with Russell Kane

It's good, bad, ugly - and very very funny. Changing the way we see heroes and villains in history.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Host Russell Kane
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4 / 5Facebook Followers 922.2KTwitter Followers 534.1KInstagram Followers 33.3K Frequency 12 episodes / year Avg Length 41 min Listen on Apple YouTube Play Get Email Contact

5. The Documentary Podcast

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.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Hosts James Reynolds, Lukwesa Burak
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Facebook Followers 59.8MTwitter Followers 34.2M Frequency 1 episode / day Avg Length 31 min Since Mar 2020 Listen on YouTube Play Get Email Contact

6. The History Hour

A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Host Max Pearson
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Facebook Followers 7.3MTwitter Followers 385.4KInstagram Followers 427.1K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 52 min Listen on YouTube Play Get Email Contact

7. Things Fell Apart

A series of strange, unexpected human stories from the history of the culture wars. Hosted by BBC Radio 4.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.7 / 5 Frequency 10 episodes / year Avg Length 32 min Listen on Apple YouTube Play Get Email Contact

8. How to Invent a Country

When did countries become countries? Misha Glenny on the borders, the stories and the people of countries worldwide.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Host Misha Glenny
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.7 / 5Facebook Followers 926.6KInstagram Followers 33.3K Frequency 4 episodes / quarter Avg Length 36 min Listen on Apple YouTube Play Get Email Contact

9. Sporting Witness

The inside and personal story of the key moments from sporting history
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Hosts Uma Doraiswamy, Alex Last
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.7 / 5Facebook Followers 7.3MInstagram Followers 427.1K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 11 min Listen on Apple YouTube Play Get Email Contact

10. The Coming Storm

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?
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Hosts Gabriel Gatehouse, Jamie Bartlett, Catrin Nye
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Facebook Followers 925.6KInstagram Followers 33.3K Frequency 2 episodes / year Avg Length 26 min Listen on YouTube Play Get Email Contact

11. Acid Dream: The Great LSD Plot

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.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Facebook Followers 119.2K Listen on YouTube Play Get Email Contact

12. What Really Happened in the Nineties?

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.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
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13. My Moment In History

Personal stories of lives linked to history. Hosted by BBC Radio.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
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