A discussion of History and Politics from teachers at Warwick School. We aim to produce a podcast once a fortnight during term time. Topics will tend towards the last 200 years, but we will sometimes go back further into History.
Oliver O'Brien & John Jefferies
Send us Fan MailJohn leads the Heaton Podcast in its first ever live episode - in this episode John and Olly consider what the turning points of the Second World War. But, of real interest in this episode are JJ's reflections on his career at the end.
Send us Fan MailA brief bonus episode in which OW Danny Rogers tells us about his encounter with Andy Burnham.
Send us Fan MailAn encounter with the Falklands. Listen here to Chris Howe, MBE, who served on HMS Coventry in the Falklands War. He has a first rate story to tell.
Send us Fan MailJohn and Olly meet to discuss the Premiership of John Major after 1992.
Send us Fan MailListen to John and Olly give their opinion on the Burnham heist. How has Andy Burnham, someone not even in Parliament when he started, managed to topple the Prime Minister??
Send us Fan MailJoin John and Olly as they chat about the PM's latest set of ministerial resignations.
Send us Fan MailJohn has an outstanding story to tell here. He and Mr. Hadley interview Derek Woolf. He was an RAF medic present at the nuclear tests, by Britain, in the South Pacific in the 1950s
Send us Fan MailJohn and Olly have a retro burst with looking at the 1990s Prime Minister of Britain - John Major. Was he as boring as he has been remembered?
Send us Fan MailJoin John and Olly at Warwick. First they make an amble around the cricket pitch haveing a natter, before John leads them in a discussion about Richard II as king.
Send us Fan MailWe are back! John and Olly finally complete their triology on the Duke of Wellington. Listen in for some current politcal disocurse as well.
Send us a textCrisis in Westminster. Will Epstein bring down the PM. Listen to what JJ has to say...
Send us a textJohn and Olly join together at the start of term in January and try to make sense of Trump.
Send us a textIn the second part of our Duke of Wellington podcast, John and Olly take you on a tour of the battlefield of Waterloo.
Send us a textJoin John and Olly as they discuss Wellington's life up to the battle of Waterloo.
Send us a textJoin JJ and OROB for their catch up on all things Politics, before they introduce their next topic. The Duke of Wellington!
Send us a textJohn and Olly reflect on the last year of the Second World War in Europe. Olly shares a personal anecdote as to hwo the war ended on the Western Front.
Send us a textThe Heaton Podcast Returns! Listen to John and Olly provide their political analysis on what has happened in UK politics.
Send us a text An encounter with the House of Lords. Produced for Lower Sixth revision purposes.
Send us a textJohn and Olly welcome the Nelson Society to the podcast. We hear the life and stories from one of England's great heroes. Horatio Lord Nelson, victor of the Nile and Trafalgar. One of our most enjoyable podacast.
Send us a textJohn and Olly try to explain and understand the growing threat from the hard right.
Send us a textJohn and Olly talk about the Six Day War of 1967 in which Israel overwhelms its Arabs neighbours. Excellent GCSE revision, but intersting to listen to as well!
Send us a textUsing the song Amazing Grace as a way to examine slavery. The sins of one man, his story of redemption and the good that he carried out at the end of his life. Can one man be redeemed. Can Britain be redeemed for its past sins.
Send us a textThe Birdman of Auschwitz is a Encounter episode where John gives us a unique window onto the historical catastrophe of the Holocaust.
Send us a textFrom November 2024, John and Olly have one of their most brilliant encounters with General Sir Simon Mayall who discusses the Middle East with incredible breadth and depth of knowledge whilst also bringing in a great depth of personal experience.
Send us a textJoin John and Olly for an engaging chat about the Crimean war of the 1850s and the infamous Charge of the Light Brigade. Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!” he said. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Send us a textA review of the year with John and Olly.
Send us a textJoin John and Olly for their Christmas Day address on the American Civil War.
Send us a textJohn is joined by his friend Andy Williamson, who takes us on a trip into the history of Brown's Hotel in London. A fascinating group of characters dined and slept in this storied hotel.
Send us a textIn light of their recent episodes on thee Jacobites and the recent death fo Alex Salmond, listen in for a JJ hot take on Scottish nationalism.
John and Olly takes us to the 18th Century and the campaign of Bonnie Prince Charlie. Who were the Jacobites? And what happened in the 45.
Join John and Olly as they discuss the troubles of the Labour government. That is after they pay tribute to the former school marshall, John Pipitone. Website mentioned is here: https://johnpipitone.muchloved.com/
Join us for a new innovation. The JJ take on current affairs. In this case, his verdict on the American Presidential Election so far.
John and Olly enjoy a good natter before John takes us on the journey of an intriguing, controverisal and nasty political character, Enoch Powell
Join a sleep deprived John and Olly for their morning after judgement on the election.
Bonus trailer, with an exciting announcement for the Heaton Podcast.
Listen to Olly try and discuss the Corn Laws and Prime Minister Robert Peel, and listen to John try an hijack it into a discussion on Benjamin Disraeli. After the ideological split over this issue the Tories were out of power for a long time…
John and Olly provided some incisive and off beat election coverage.
John and Olly talk about the D-Day landings. This is then followed by two pupils interviewing a Normandy veteran.
Listen to Olly talk about the Anzio landings of January 1944. After a little bit of election analysis of course.
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Join John and Olly as they take you through the day that the President was shot.
Former BBC correspondent and Radio 4 Today presenter Matthew Price recounts with Simon and John some of the major stories he has covered while working as a reporter in America, Europe and the Middle East as well as offering incisive insight into the current geopolitical situation.
No President has ever faced the challenges that President Lincoln has. Here we trace his journey from being nominated as leader of the Republican Party to entering the White House.
Simon joins John and Olly to take them through what he thinks are the greatest Welsh people across History, Politcs the Arts and some other categories.
What went wrong for Britain in the War of Independence? Examining the reasons for Britain's defeat.
John and Olly continue the story of the American War of Independence. They look at the intial battles and early years of the conflict.
John and Olly chart the route from the French Indian War to the Boston Tea Party in the emergence of America.
John and Olly get to interview David Reynolds - one of Britain's foremost historians - on the topic of Winston Churchill. David's book is called 'Mirrors of Greatness' and considers Churchill's relationships with other leaders across his life.
Olly interviews John about the life of Henry Kissinger.
Take a break from your family festivites and join John for his most excellent interview with Professor Juliet John. She is world renowned expert on Charles Dickens, from the University of London.
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