Category: Featured AudioJane Austen: from beginning to endWednesday 9 August 2017To commemorate the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death in 1817, Professor Fiona Stafford delivered a...AudioA tormented Tudor queen’s treasonous ‘love letter’Tuesday 1 August 2017In this episode, Neil Johnston and Christopher Day discuss a letter written by Catherine...AudioSexuality under scrutiny in 1930s SohoTuesday 18 July 2017In 1934, homosexual acts between men – in public and in private – were...AudioOscar Wilde’s trial and imprisonment – a short playFriday 14 July 2017This short play explores the trial and imprisonment of Oscar Wilde. In 1895 the...AudioBombs, bulls and civilian braveryTuesday 4 July 2017In this podcast The National Archives’ Principal Military Specialist reveals some of his favourite stories about...Audio‘A Bit of a Scratch’, a radio drama about the battle against Venereal Disease during the First World WarFriday 16 June 2017‘A Bit of a Scratch’ explores the first recorded prosecution under the Venereal Diseases...AudioMedieval treason and magicThursday 15 June 2017In this podcast, two of our records specialists tell us about treason and necromancy in The National...Audio‘Dadland’: the father who was also an undercover guerrilla agentThursday 18 May 2017Keggie Carew discusses her book ‘Dadland’, a story about a madcap English childhood, the...AudioBlack British politics and the Anti-Apartheid struggleMonday 24 April 2017In 1948, from the introduction of apartheid in South Africa, racial discrimination galvanized the...AudioFrom the Somme to ArrasTuesday 18 April 2017Andrew Lock discusses the progress made by the British Expeditionary Forces between the battles...AudioBureau-cats: A short history of Whitehall’s official felinesWednesday 29 March 2017Public interest in the cats of Whitehall began long before Larry, Palmerston and Gladstone graced...AudioTracy Borman on ‘The Private Lives of the Tudors’Monday 6 March 2017Tracy Borman reveals how the Tudor monarchs were constantly surrounded by an army of... « 1 2 3 4 5 … 26 »