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David Olusoga takes on the female pirates of the Caribbean: best podcasts of the week

The historian tackles the most world-changing events that you almost certainly didn’t know about. Plus, a hugely engaging tale of ‘radical nuns in combat boots’

The Guardian - UK · Mar 24, 2025

The week in audio: Lockdown’s Legacy; Journey Through Time; IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson – review

A powerful Radio 4 series explores the long shadow of Covid; a new history show feels more like a lecture; and the former first lady teams up with her brother

The Guardian - UK · Mar 22, 2025

Hay Festival announces return of expert panel series The News Review for 2025

‘The Independent’ will host a selection of experts to dissect the day’s breaking news

The Independent UK · Mar 18, 2025

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The Long Wave: How A Thousand Blows recovers the lost history of a lion-taming West Indian boxer

Historian David Olusoga sheds light on Hezekiah Moscow, a mysterious migrant seeking a better life in Victorian London. Plus, my suya obsession

The Guardian - UK · Feb 26, 2025

The true story behind A Thousand Blows by the show's historical advisor

Steven Knight’s story of boxing and thievery is rooted in reality

Evening Standard · Feb 21, 2025

TV tonight: Eddie Redmayne’s big-budget assassination thriller

Lashana Lynch also stars in Sky Atlantic’s adaptation of The Day of the Jackal. Plus: the final episode of David Olusoga’s fascinating history series. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK · Nov 7, 2024

TV tonight: it’s the most emotional night on the telly calendar

Tears will flow as the nation’s unsung heroes are celebrated at the Pride of Britain Awards. Plus: fascinating war stories from Berlin and London. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK · Oct 24, 2024

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David Olusoga’s new book joins the struggle to make Black history mainstream

For decades, Black history in the UK has been siloed from the mainstream, as if incidental to the nation’s history. Black History Month in October is dedicated to celebrating Black heritage, but the rest of the year, it feels largely neglected and ignored. Public historian and broadcaster David Olusoga, is…

The Conversation · Sep 26, 2024

Survey showing UK’s loss of pride in its past is encouraging, says historian

Public choosing ‘Shakespeare over invasion’ and becoming more discerning about Britain’s history, says Alan Lester

The Guardian - UK · Sep 6, 2024

UK riots: immigration is a boon, not a curse

After decades of hostility, politicians of all stripes must unite in promoting the many benefits that incomers bring to our nation

The Guardian - UK · Aug 18, 2024

TV tonight: the UK neighbourhoods where 100% of crimes go unsolved

Isobel Yeung leads an alarming Dispatches investigation. Plus, the trauma behind Olympian Daley Thompson’s life. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK · Jul 16, 2024

‘A galvanising sense of unity’: a football team that is multiracial and distinctively English

As Ollie Watkins scored in the Euros semifinal, the country celebrated as one – with a team that’s comfortable in its own skin, whatever the colour

The Guardian - UK · Jul 14, 2024

David Olusoga reveals how a murder ‘shaped generations’ of his family

The historian relates the impact on his relatives of an 1890s crime committed by his great-great-grandfather

The Guardian - UK · Jun 8, 2024

UK within British empire is like last person left at a party, says David Olusoga

Historian tells Hay festival audience that Britain needs to ‘liberate itself and have independence day from its own history’

The Guardian - UK · Jun 2, 2024

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The Independent UK · May 23, 2024

Hay Festival 2024: our guide to this year’s highlights

Judi Dench talking Shakespeare, conversations with bestsellers Marian Keyes and David Nicholls, and a deep dive into the day’s news with Independent journalists and leading thinkers – this year’s Hay Festival programme is fit to burst with unmissable events. Jessie Thompson picks the highlights

Evening Standard · May 23, 2024

Hay Festival 2024: our guide to the top events at this year's 'Woodstock of the mind'

With a programme rammed-full of performances, panels and talks, we pick some of this year’s best events

The Guardian - UK · Feb 25, 2024

Sunderland may not be like London, Cynthia Erivo, but neither is it like the Britain of old

Challenging racism wherever it expresses itself is not the same as disparaging a place because it is too white

The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2023

TV tonight: a remarkable story about abducted Ukrainian children

A staggering account of the families who travelled to Russia to find their loved ones. Plus: the return of MasterChef: The Professionals. Here’s what to watch this evening

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The Conversation · Oct 19, 2023

Plan to 'retain and explain' controversial statues is flawed – why we should always question our monuments

The long-awaited government guidance on the official “retain and explain” policy suggests the UK’s contested statues and monuments be retained as long as additional context is provided. But given their controversial past, how do we go about that?

The Guardian - UK · Oct 16, 2023

TV tonight: Jamie Oliver returns with five essential ‘hero’ ingredients

The inventive chef offers a series of simple hacks that actually work. Plus, Panorama’s Challenging Putin – Moscow and the Mutiny. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK · Oct 8, 2023

The week in TV: Boiling Point; Partygate; Beckham; Bargain – review

The film-spinoff restaurant drama is all about people not plates. Elsewhere, a Partygate docudrama is painful viewing and David Beckham bares little

Evening Standard · Oct 3, 2023

OPINION - David Olusoga: levelling up rhetoric is nothing new – the rest of the UK has always resented London’s allure

One of Britain’s most pre-eminent historians on how the capital’s gravitational pull for talent and investment has been regarded as a weakness for the Union

The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2023

Union With David Olusoga review – finally! A history show that’s not deathly dull

Most history documentaries are so drearily simplistic they make you cross-eyed with boredom. Thank goodness then for this fascinating, first-rate effort about how our septic isle came to be

The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2023

TV tonight: a fascinating dive into the creation of a unified Britain

David Olusoga takes us on a journey that begins in 1707 with the creation of a new nation. Plus, a grim dramatisation of the Yorkshire Ripper’s reign of terror. Here’s what to watch this evening

Evening Standard · Oct 1, 2023

Union on BBC Two review: a complex look at what it means - or not - to be British

Union won’t necessarily draw the type of viewers that do not already watch history programmes. But it is a fascinating look at the UK’s dark past

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