Podcast

John Bercow’s podcast is me me me, with a side order of sycophancy

The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Robert Thicknesse, Alexander Larman and Charles Saumarez Smith

Professor Jeremy Black discusses how the Confederate forces hoped to overcome the superior numbers and resources of the North

Having a fortune is not quite all it’s cracked up to be

The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Daisy Dunn and Michael Prodger

Professor Jeremy Black on the British military presence in India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

The Critic Narrated: Episode Six, with Sarah Ditum and David Scullion

Professor Jeremy Black on how Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire found themselves fighting together in the Crimea

The first episode of The Critic Books Podcast: in conversation with J. R. Thorp.

Professor Jeremy Black discusses why and how Europe was engulfed in wars with France between 1792 and 1815