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The History PodcastEpisodes

  1. Monday13:45
    BBC Radio 4

    6. Final ProofsThe Hitler Diaries Scandal

    6/11Stern is just putting the final touches to its coverage and its promotional film.

  2. Tuesday13:45
    BBC Radio 4

    7. An Opera Set for HellThe Hitler Diaries Scandal

    7/11The world’s media is assembled, awaiting the ‘scoop of the century’.

  3. Tuesday23:00
    BBC Radio 4

    5. The Road Through the MountainsHalf-Life

    Joe’s great-grandfather's letters, lead him to the silenced history of a massacre.

  4. Wednesday13:45
    BBC Radio 4

    8. Bunker MentalityThe Hitler Diaries Scandal

    8/11Stern magazine digs in, sticking by their story and their journalist Gerd Heidemann.

  5. Thursday13:45
    BBC Radio 4

    9. The TrialThe Hitler Diaries Scandal

    9/11Everything is falling apart for Gerd Heidemann and the heat is on forger Konrad Kujau.

  6. Next Friday13:45
    BBC Radio 4

    10. DownfallThe Hitler Diaries Scandal

    10/11Andrew Hunter Murray tracks down Hitler’s faked diaries to the Bundesarchiv in Koblenz.

  7. Tue 29 Sep 202623:00
    BBC Radio 4

    6. TranquilityHalf-Life

    Joe's great-grandfather settles in the United States where his mental health deteriorates.

  8. Sat 3 Oct 202621:00
    BBC Radio 4

    The Hitler Diaries Scandal

    An astonishing tale of greed, obsession and mass delusion told by Andrew Hunter Murray.

  9. Tue 6 Oct 202623:00
    BBC Radio 4

    7. The City ForgetsHalf-Life

    Joe traces a family history left out of his great-grandfather’s memoir.