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Aspects of History Editor Ollie Webb-Carter interviews historians and authors about the past – from the ancient world right up to the modern day. In each episode, Ollie seeks to get to the bottom of a story or scrutinise a figure from history, in an informative light-hearted way.

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Jason Roberts
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Paul Fischer
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Stuart Reid
Author of The Lumumba Plot and editor at Foreign Affairs.
David Chrisinger
Executive Director @ Harris Writing Workshop, author of "The Soldier's Truth" and several other books
Leah Redmond Chang
Critically acclaimed biographer and historian, author of Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
Vanda Krefft
Author of The Man Who Made the Movies (HarperCollins), biography of 20th Century Fox founder William Fox
Judy Batalion
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Bestselling Tudor historian and author of The House of Dudley
Alec Nevala-Lee
Author of Astounding and Inventor of the Future
Shawn Levy
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Richard Munson
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Timothy Denevi
Author of "Freak Kingdom" (@public_affairs, 2019) & "Hyper" (@simonschuster, 2014). Professor at at George Mason MFA
David de Jong
Middle East Correspondent. Author of Nazi Billionaires
Sam Wasson
New York Times Best Selling author of many books on Hollywood including The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood. He lives in Los Angeles.
Daniel Schulman
New York Times bestselling author of Sons of Wichita and The Money Kings, deputy editor (news & politics) @motherjones
Robert Rotenberg
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Julie Cohen
Author and teacher, author of BAD MEN and SUMMER PEOPLE
Jane Jesmond
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Jacquelyn Mitchard
Author of 23 books of fiction and non-fiction
Hannah Mary McKinnon
International bestselling thriller & rom-com author
Fiona Erskine
Engineer by day. Writer by night.
David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Native American writer, author of Winter Counts
DP Lyle
Award-winning author of the Jake Longly and Cain/Harper Thriller Series
Ben Winters
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Randi Epstein
Freelance medical writer @NYTimes @washpost, author of Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank; Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything, I teach medical writing at Yale, profile writing at Columbia Journalism School, and serve as Writer in Residence at Yale School of Medicine’s Program for Humanities in Medicine.
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Investigative reporter, specializing in mental health and author of While You Were Out
Joe Pompeo
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Science journalist and author of Gory Details and Go to Hell
Hannah Nordhaus
I write about history, science and the natural world. Author of The Beekeeper's Lament and American Ghost.
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Jonathan Harounoff
Middle East Journalist currently writing a book about the historic women-led protest movement that swept Iran in 2022 and 2023.
Daniel Schulman
New York Times bestselling author of Sons of Wichita and The Money Kings, deputy editor (news & politics) @motherjones

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