History As It Happens

“History as It Happens, an extraordinary podcast led by Martin Di Caro, is unique in many ways. It takes on big complicated subjects, breaks them down into vivid conversations, ranging across the political spectrum, and by doing so makes accessible to a broad public the thinking and writing of the world's leading historians. Martin Di Caro is the brilliant, curious and energetic host of these discussions. He has a formidable talent for sensing which topics are important at the moment, finding the right historian to pair with a given topic, and then putting together a discussion that is lively, dee,p and trenchant. History as It Happens is an invaluable source of debate, inquiry, and analysis.”

“There simply is no better podcast for consistent inquiry of how the past affects the present. Martin Di Caro is an engaging, funny, well-read, and most importantly, interested interviewer without personal axes to grind, and his cast of historians consistently impresses. Many are the times when I learn of a week's topic and say 'oh, in my dream world I'd hear this historian' and lo and behold, that person is the guest he's already found. I wish I had such a rolodex! This is a podcast that is tops in my weekly rotation.”

“The podcast does an amazing job in giving a platform to truly serious historical reflection and debate that is also thoroughly accessible. There's been nothing like it that I can recall, ever.”