Episode 23 – Telling your Ancestors’ stories

An initial view of the new records 

A look ahead to January's release. 

Concluding part of our double podcast episode about Mildred Fish-Harnack, the US-born woman at the centre of the underground resistance to Nazism in Berlin during World War II. In conversation with Rebecca Donner, Mildred’s great great niece and author of All the Frequent Trouble ...  Afficher plus

📝 Get FREE Episode Worksheet 🧐 Take English Level Test 👄 Improve Your Pronunciation In this episode Charlie once again meets his historian friend Ben but this time to talk about the history of the Great English Country Houses. These often feature in popular British TV dramas a ...  Afficher plus

On the brink of a fridgid winter in December 1944, The Battle of the Bulge began, after Adolf Hitler launched a surprise blitzkrieg against Allied Forces in northwest Europe. James Forsythe was a young American soldier bunkered down with his battalion in a Belgian village anxious ...  Afficher plus

An Irish Army Captain goes on holidays – a strange kind of holiday. To a city where he knows there is likely to be ‘trouble’. He arrives as a three-day street battle, now known as 'the Battle of the Bogside', begins. And it changes everything (Ep1/8).

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