79: Intoxicating History

Lauren Layfield introduces What's Your Map? on the series recommendation show Your Next Podcast.Historian Jerry Brotton meets people who work with and love maps to dissect one map they keep going back to. Today's guest is Ed Parsons, one of the geographers behind perhaps the best known map of the 21st century: Google Maps.Follow What's Your Map? wherever you're reading this!Your Next Podcast is going on a break. In the meantime be sure to find news, reviews and much more on podcastrex.com.

Lauren Layfield introduces Intoxicating History on the series recommendation show Your Next Podcast.Aside from being surprisingly delicious in gravy, what has port ever done for us? That's the question posed by Henry Jeffreys and Tom Parker-Bowles as they explore the history of alcohol one drink at a time.Follow Intoxicating History wherever you're reading this!

Lauren Layfield introduces Routes on the series recommendation show Your Next Podcast.Routes is a show hosted by Clara Amfo all about travel, trips and memories. Clara meets celebrity guests such as Tom Grennan, Candice Brathwaite, Babatunde Aléshé and Arielle Free and asks them about the travel experiences that have shaped who they are. This episode features the one and only Craig David.Follow Routes wherever you're reading this!

Lauren Layfield introduces Conflict of Interest on the series recommendation show Your Next Podcast.Conflict of Interest is a podcast from the Imperial War Museums where celebrities visit one of the museums’ sites to learn about some of the most interesting and relevant wars in our history.Guided by experts in the field and museum curators, they ask all the questions you might want to ask yourself about these periods we all should know a little more about.Follow Conflict of Interest wherever you're reading this.

Lauren Layfield introduces This is History on the series recommendation show Your Next Podcast.Hosted by the New York Times best-selling author and historian Dan Jones, season six of This Is History immerses listeners into the thick of one of the most turbulent eras of the Middle Ages and the rise of one of England’s most formidable kings, Edward III.From naval warfare and deadly military inventions to orgies, and castle heists, all set in the backdrop of the Black Death, season six of This Is History is full of explosive moments as Dan unfolds the saga of history’s deadliest dynasty.Follow This is History wherever you're reading this!

Lauren Layfield introduces Page 94 on the series recommendation show Your Next Podcast.Private Eye editor Ian Hislop is joined by Harry Enfield, Lewis McLeod and Jan Ravens for a special end of year live show, rounding up the ridiculous 2024. This episode is the perfect gateway into Page 94 and maybe even Private Eye more broadly.Follow Page 94 wherever you're reading this!

Lauren Layfield introduces The Willpower Detectives on the series recommendation show Your Next Podcast.Something doesn’t add up. In Hertfordshire towns, people who live alone are disappearing. Their neighbours are wondering why they’ve not seen them, or if they might have died.Giving someone else control of your finances and decisions – through Lasting Power of Attorney – is meant to come with a guarantee that they always act in your best interest. But that doesn’t always happen. And that’s what Sue Mitchell and team are investigating in this new seven part series.Follow Shadow World: The Willpower Detectives wherever you're reading this.

Lauren Layfield introduces 16 Sunsets on the series recommendation show Your Next Podcast.Today we're bringing you part one of a new 10-part series examining the dramatic history of the NASA's space shuttle program. It's a story of history and technology as you might expect, but also of politics, intrigue and Cold War.Featuring over 40 interviews of NASA veterans who were there as it all unfolded, this is not one to miss if you're a space fan.Follow 16 Sunsets wherever you're reading this!

Lauren Layfield introduces Single Ladies in Your Area on the series recommendation show Your Next Podcast.Amy Gledhill and Harriet Kemsley are here to help each other (and you) navigate single life in their thirties. From apps through red flags and all the way to divorce, Amy and Harriet are here to provide moral support and a guide to being single in 2024.Follow Single Ladies in Your Area now wherever you're listening to this!

Lauren Layfield introduces the Animal Sensemaker on the series recommendation show Your Next Podcast.The goal of The Animal Sensemaker is to introduce you to one animal every week to make sense of the world. A spin-off of The Sensemaker, a more traditional news-based version of the same format, The Animal Sensemaker remains a 10 minute bitesize piece of useful information - just this time with added animals.Follow The Animal Sensemaker wherever you're reading this!