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Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
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Episodes
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
A Message That Changed Our World Forever! – episode 98 season 2
Strange bedfellows come together to change the world! In this week’s episode it is 1969 and Neil takes us to California in the United States of America to meet…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Greatest Single Moment In The History Of The World…Perhaps! – episode 97 season 2
The endeavour, the controversy and good luck to Mr Gorsky! In this week’s episode Neil takes us on a journey to the moon. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
I Have A Dream! – episode 96 season 2
One greatest speeches of the 20th Century – this week we travel with Neil to Washington in the United States of America as Baptist minister and Civil Rights…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
A Blinding Flash! - episode 95
A great blast like the sweeping hand of a wrathful god! This week we travel with Neil to meet Tomi San in the aftermath of the atomic explosion at Nagasaki. To…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Discovering One of History’s Great Horrors - episode 94
Beyond politics, beyond ideologies, beyond battles – this week it’s 1945 and Neil takes us to southern Poland to a moment in history humanity must never…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few - episode 93
Only the English Channel stands between Britain and defeat! This week it’s the summer of 1940 and the Battle of Britain is raging as we travel with Neil to the…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
The most significant moment of the C20th - episode 92
The day of days. Evil coming our way! This week Neil takes us to 1933 when Adolf Hitler, the charismatic leader of the National Socialists, begins his final…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Pushing Boundaries - episode 91
Heroism, bravery & reaching for the stars - George Mallory and Andrew Irvine climb Mount Everest. To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
The World’s Deadliest Pandemic! - episode 90
Questions swirl around the most lethal pandemics in history - the Black Death killed a higher proportion of the world’s population, but the Spanish Flu, which…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
A Nation Revolts!
A sealed train speeds through war-torn Europe to deliver revolution to Russia. This week it’s 1917 and we’re travelling with Neil to St Petersburg as Lenin…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
The Day When The World Turns On its Axis!
Your country needs you! This week we travel with Neil and the Pals Battalions to France. It’s 7.30 a.m. on the first day of the battle of the Somme, the…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Striking It Rich!
Beyond the dreams of avarice! In this episode George Reynolds and his team of prospectors discover the world’s largest oil field, and as the black gold begins…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Up, Up & Away!
Two magnificent men and their flying machine change the world and our relationship to it. In this episode, it’s 1903, and we travel with Neil to Kitty Hawk in…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
A Terrifying Insight
A chronic gambler who suffered epileptic seizures all his life and faced the firing squad for disseminating banned literature. This week we travel with Neil to…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
The Man Who Saw Light For What It Is
In this episode Neil takes us to Edinburgh, Scotland in the late 1800s to meet a forgotten scientific hero, the physicist, James Clerk Maxwell. To help support…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
The ‘Beautiful Game’ is born!
In this episode we travel with Neil to London, England as the rules of a sport, that will go viral around the world, are being set down in stone. Philosophy of…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Civil War
In this episode we travel to America in 1861 as the new nation begins ripping itself apart. This week Neil draws a devastatingly tragic portrait of Sullivan…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Revolution In The Air!
This week we are with Neil in London, England as a document that is just 23 pages long, but is destined to change the world is about to be printed – it’s by…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Confronted By Our Nature!
This week we travel with Neil to Paris in 1838 as Louis Daguerre exposes human nature and it's consequences like never before. To help support this podcast &…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
The Most Dangerous Man in Britain!
The most dangerous man in Britain changes the world forever! This week it’s 1836 and we’re stepping ashore with Neil in New South Wales, Australia to meet…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Slaves!
This week we travel with Neil to Jamacia as Samuel Sharpe, an eloquent and passionate man, calls on his fellow slaves to rise up and seek their freedom! To…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
One Billion!
Either each of us matters or none of us do and if we live amongst a population where too many people think that none of us matter, that’s the road to a dark…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Loved & feared!
Loved by his people a charismatic demagogue rises to ultimate power. This week Neil takes us across revolutionary France as Napoleon Bonaparte, a true military…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Freedom, Equality & Revolution!
Noble thoughts and the mob are swirling around the city as the streets run red with blood. This week it’s 1789 as we travel with Neil to Paris, France, to…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Passion & The Foundation Of A Formidable Kingdom!
My obsession with this remarkable story changed my life! The ‘fun of the roads’ goes too far and a child is conceived - the ‘little blazing fire’ who becomes…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Freedom!
The best idea for a country there has ever been – period! This week Neil travels to America to visit James Madison the man credited with writing the opening to…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Witchcraft & The Ultimate Cancelling!
A beautiful woman is led in chains to a town square packed with onlookers: standing before the crowd an executioner swings his sword and cuts off her head!…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
The Largest Empire In Human History
Religious zealotry, factional fighting and a new kid on the block! This week we travel with Neil to the Indian city of Murshidabad as Lieutenant Colonel Robert…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Changing the world forever! - the Industrial Revolution
Invention, innovation, and entrepreneurial dynamism are at the heart of the Industrial Revolution. This week we travel with Neil to Devon in England. It’s 1712…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Greed, power and the plague of war!
A battle many regard as one of the most significant in history! This week we travel with Neil to Blenheim in Germany as the cauldron of bitter royal rivalries…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Glimpsing ‘The Meaning Of Life’!
A genius who changed the way we understand the Universe. In this episode we travel with Neil to Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire, England to meet Isaac Newton…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
A Half-plucked Chicken & The Scientific Method!
Ghoulish apparitions haunting a city square, and an approach to science that is still vital today. This week Neil takes us to meet Francis Bacon at the…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
The Best-Selling Book in the World!
In this episode we travel to Stationers Hall in the City of London to hear a version of this book, that has taken over seven years to research and write, being…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
John Smith, Pocahontas, Jamestown & North America
In this episode Neil takes us to a place that starts out as a malarial hellhole but will come to play a pivotal role in the development of North America. To…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Discovering Our Place In The Universe!
In this episode Neil takes us across Europe to meet the man with the gold nose – one half of the inspired, but bad-tempered intellectual marriage that put us…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Europe Comes To India!
In this episode Queen Elizabeth I of England puts in place an opening power play which in good time will transform the people of England, the Indian…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Let Tyrants Fear!
In this episode Neil stands beside one of the world’s great leaders as she delivers a speech that cements her reputation and makes her an icon! To help support…
Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, HistoryFighting For Freedom!
In this episode we travel with Neil to Valladolid in Spain to hear an impassioned debate about one of the great questions of the age; a debate that still has…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
The Russian mindset, territorial expansion & Ivan the Terrible!
In this episode Neil travels to Russia to meet Ivan the Terrible. To help support the making of Neil’s podcasts & get access to extra, exclusive videos every…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Hell On Earth
In this episode we travel with Neil to Bolivia in 1545 as Diego Gualpa discovers an entire mountain made of silver – untold wealth for a few but a hell on…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Riches Beyond The Dreams of Avarice!
In this episode Neil travels to South America as gold and silver flows out on the way to Spain, but amidst these astonishing riches a humble ingredient comes…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
A Deadly Secret Weapon!
In this episode a deadly secret weapon is unleashed on the Indian subcontinent for the very first time! To help support the making of Neil’s podcasts & get…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Power, Passion & Deadly Desire - The White Castle, Greenwich, London
In this episode we travel with Neil to the court of King Henry VIII – there is no rage like love turned to hatred! To help support the making of Neil’s…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
First Round The World!
In this episode we set off on a voyage that will never be forgotten – Magellan & Elcano, 5 ships, 270 sailors, attempting to sail around the globe for the very…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
An Empire Where The Sun Never Sets!
In this episode we travel with Neil to Aachen in Germany and Bologna in Italy as the kingdoms of Europe respond to dangerous unrest from within and threats…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
No Turning Back!
In this episode we’re travelling with Neil to the beautiful German town of Wittenberg as a document is nailed to the door of All Saints church, an act that…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
An American Icon!
In this episode we travel with Neil to the Americas as an animal that would help define the two continents is reintroduced. The horse is back! To help support…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
A World Divided
Prophesy stalks the streets of this great city, and now with a formidable force outside its walls its crunch time, as the world map is about to be redrawn! To…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Information Goes Viral For The Very First Time
A man with a brilliant brain meets a merchant with money, and together they kick start an information revolution that turns the world on its head! To help…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
A Shout For Freedom
With new taxes, a forever war, and ruthless employers sucking the life out of them, the people of Britain rise up on their hind legs and declare ‘enough is…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
The Pandemic that wiped out half of Europe!
Bloated, rotting plague corpses are fired over the defensive walls of a besieged city in the world’s first use of chemical warfare! In this episode, Neil takes…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Sharpening Minds!
In this episode, as universities spring up across Europe and begin to power a new age, Neil travels to Florence, in Italy, to meet Dante as he completes his…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Kamikaze!
In this episode Neil travels with Kublai Khan’s mighty invasion force as they land in Japan and face Kamikaze! To help support the making of Neil’s podcasts &…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Discovering A New Future
In this episode Neil sets sail into the vast Pacific Ocean as he travel with Kupe and his people in search of a beautiful new land. To help support the making…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Aiming To Rule The World - Genghis Khan
Get ready to run! In this episode Neil takes us to meet one of the world’s most terrifying leaders, Genghis Khan. Heartless, brutal, but incredibly talented…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Battle Lines Are Drawn & An Icon Born!
In the episode we travel with Neil to meet one of history’s great chivalric heroes. An icon who grew out of the terrible butchery and slaughter of the…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Reaching For The Sky
In this episode Neil takes us right across history, from the ancient Carnac Stones in France to the great Cathedrals built throughout Europe, as humans reached…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Data Collection & Control
In this episode we travel to England as the most remarkable document in the history of Europe is drawn up… the Domesday Book! To help support the making of…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Church & State Go Head To Head!
In this episode we travel with Neil to Italy as two powerful men face-off against each other, starting a power struggle that will last for centuries. To help…
- Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History
Line In The Sand!
In this episode Neil takes us to the city of Mazikert as Muslim Seljuc Turk forces meet a Christian Byzantium army and battle lines that would last centuries…