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 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.
Join John and Olly for a chat at school before Christmas, including their recommended reading, before Noah and Owen interview the former Master of the Domincan Order of Britain. He has a hopeful message for us all!
The Heaton Podcast is joined by Old Warwickian Oli Dugmore. Oli is now editor of the Politics Joe website, where he hosts his own podcast as well as presenting a radio show on LBC.
John and Olly discuss the Yorkist rule of Edward IV, Edward V and then Richard III. They are also joined by Simon to dicuss Wales's role in the dynatic conflict.
John and Olly are on location. Join them as they journey around Warwick Castle and talk more about the Wars of the Roses. The chaos of Towton, the reign of Edward IV and the climax of Tewkesbury.
John and Olly delve into the Wars of the Roses on this episode. Tracing the origins of the conflict they talk about the early stages of the war through the prism of the experience of one of the main protagonists - Richard Duke of York.
As another war enrupts in the Middle East, John and Olly chart the origins of the current problems in Gaza.
Listen to this fascinating interview with GAreth Russell as he takes us into life in the Tudor court, focusing on Henry VIII's fifth wife, Catherine Howard.
Warwick School students, Noah and Kane, interview a group of Ukrainian teachers. The most powerful and moving podcast yet.
Join the team as they look back at the world in 1973. Both in Britain, America and the economic shocks of the time.
Discover Eighteenth Century Ireland as Patrick Stiven takes us on a journey to explain what Ireland was like in the 1800s and what this means for Ireland now.
Barry Goldwater was the Republican nominee who lost the 1964 presidential election. Despite being heavily beaten, his influence reshaped the Republican Party, paving the way for Ronald Reagan, and maybe even Donald Trump.
John is joining by Mr. Bennett and the two of them interview Sam Fowles about the state of British Democracy. Are our freedoms under threat?
A fascinating disucssion about the state of Britain and it's future. “Engaging people's hopes and fears about integration and immigration, identity and race. Working for a confident and welcoming Britain, inclusive and fair to all”.
Listen to John and Olly talk about the life and presidency of Jimmy Carter. US president 1977-1981 he is the oldest living ex-president. The first 15 minutes also features some discussion of Politics.
John and Simon chat to Ed Button OW on his journey from Warwick School pupil to a member of the world famous King's Singers.
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