Step into the pressure cooker of Cold War diplomacy as we dissect the explosive 1961 Vienna Summit - a face-off... more

In this episode: we dissect the Tehran and Yalta summits between the so-called ’Big Three’ of Allied leaders in World... more

In this second episode dissecting the tense negotiations of September 1938, when Neville Chamberlain raced against time to prevent a... more

Step into the high-stakes world of 1938, where peace in Europe hung on a series of summits between Adolf Hitler... more

In episode 1 of Summitry, producer Russell Barnes and historian David Reynolds explore the backstory of high-stakes diplomacy on the... more

In the final episode of the series, published on the 150th anniversary of Winston Churchill’s birth, David and Russell bring... more

In this episode, we come to the person who knew Winston Churchill better than any other, and for the longest... more

In this episode, we explore Winston Churchill’s relationship with his political opponent Clement Attlee: Labour leader, wartime coalition colleague and... more

Exploring Winston Churchill’s spiky relationship with the Indian nationalist, Mohandas Gandhi - a relationship that shows up some of Churchill’s... more

In this episode: one of Winston Churchill’s most prickly and turbulent relationships - with the leader of the Free French... more