We Are History

A podcast by Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell

Categories:

113 Episodes

  1. The Legend of the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass

    Published: 24/07/2023
  2. The Story of Nancy Wake: The Mouse that ran rings around the Nazis

    Published: 18/07/2023
  3. The 1904 St Louis Olympics: A Marathon Event

    Published: 11/07/2023
  4. St Patrick and the Patriarchy: Women’s rights in Ireland

    Published: 4/07/2023
  5. Saucy Seaside Postcards - A Celebration of Great British Smut

    Published: 27/06/2023
  6. Great Fire of London: Burning down the house

    Published: 20/06/2023
  7. Navajo Code Talkers – America's secret WWII weapon

    Published: 13/06/2023
  8. Albania: Communism, capitalism, chaos

    Published: 6/06/2023
  9. The 1968 US Presidential Election: Rotting from the head down

    Published: 30/05/2023
  10. Radium: A toxic love affair

    Published: 23/05/2023
  11. Christmas Number Ones

    Published: 12/12/2022
  12. Mussolini - the rubbish war leader

    Published: 5/12/2022
  13. The Domestication of Dogs

    Published: 28/11/2022
  14. The Birth of the BBC

    Published: 21/11/2022
  15. The Stasi Poetry Circle - the East Germans secret police advancing socialism through verse

    Published: 14/11/2022
  16. The Fascist Who Switched Sides and Spied on the British Far Right

    Published: 7/11/2022
  17. The 60s Satire Boom

    Published: 31/10/2022
  18. The slow death of John Major’s government 1992-97

    Published: 24/10/2022
  19. The Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp

    Published: 28/03/2022
  20. Agent Sonya

    Published: 21/03/2022

2 / 6

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.

Visit the podcast's native language site