Today

Burma’s Pro-Democracy Uprising

August 8, 1988. a wave of nationwide student-led protests against Myanmar’s socialist dictator leads to a ruthless military crackdown. This episode originally aired in 2023.Support the show! Join Into History for ad-free listening and more.History Daily is a co-production of Airs ... Show More

17m 41s

Yesterday

Alice Ramsey Completes Her Drive Across America

August 7, 1909. Alice Huyler Ramsey becomes the first woman to drive across the continental United States.Support the show! Join Into History for ad-free listening and more.History Daily is a co-production of Airship and Noiser.Go to HistoryDaily.com for more history, daily.See P ... Show More

14m 7s

Aug 6

The First Website

August 6, 1991. British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee launches a digital information revolution when he uploads the first site to the World Wide Web. This episode originally aired in 2024.Support the show! Join Into History for ad-free listening and more.History Daily is a ... Show More

16m 12s

May 18

The Romanovs

Throughout their centuries-long dynasty, the Romanovs oversaw the transformation of Russia from a fragmented medieval state, into a vast empire. Despite their power though, the period of the Romanovs was plagued by violence, assassinations, and the heavy hand of autocratic rule. ... Show More

1h 4m

Aug 2024

History Daily: A Failed Coup in Moscow

Description: August 19, 1991. A group of Communist Party hardliners attempt to save the collapsing Soviet Union by staging a coup against party leader, Mikhail Gorbachev. This episode originally aired in 2022.You can listen ad-free in the Wondery or Amazon Music app. Or for all t ... Show More

20m 13s

May 4

562. Peter the Great: The Rise of Russia (Part 1)

Why was the early life of Peter the Great - Tsar and autocrat of all the Russias, who endures to this day as an iconic symbol of Russian might - drenched in blood and violence? What amalgamation of court politics and family feuding saw him catapulted to the role of Tsar against a ... Show More

1h 5m

May 7

563. Peter the Great: Bloodbath in the Kremlin (Part 2)

What abominable mischief and hedonism did the seventeen year old Peter the Great revel in during his strange and remarkable travels through Europe, before truly stepping into the role of Tsar of all the Russias? Did it serve a secret political purpose? What was the outcome of the ... Show More

1h 4m

Mar 2025

Real Wives of Dictators | Nadya Alliluyeva, Stalin's Wife

Nadezhda Alliluyeva was born into a revolutionary family, but was it always her fate to marry Joseph Stalin? She was independent, intelligent and highly politicised. Indeed, Stalin was a hero of hers growing up. What was it like to be so heavily involved in the Communist Party an ... Show More

40 m

Oct 2016

Episode #28- Who Killed Rasputin? (Part I)

There are few twentieth century figures as mysterious as Grigori Rasputin. The Siberian mystic has been portrayed as a scheming dark magician who seduced the Russian Queen and made a cuckold of Tsar Nicholas II. He's been blamed for everything from the First World War to the Bols ... Show More

46m 55s

Sep 2024

The Kremlin

Over roughly a thousand years, the Kremlin has come to symbolise Russia itself, with all its varying fortunes, allegiances, and leaders. It’s a physical location that has become synonymous with government and nationhood. Through war and peace, Russia’s leaders have always striven ... Show More

1h 1m

Mar 2024

The West's attempt to crush Bolshevik Russia

Following the October Revolution of 1917, Russia's nascent Bolshevik regime acted on its word to take the country out of the First World War by brokering peace with Germany. Speaking to Danny Bird, Anna Reid explains how this prompted Britain, France, America and Japan to launch ... Show More

38m 58s

Jan 2025

Russian Spies, Pigeons, and The Rest Is Classified…

How did a Russian spy manage to infiltrate the upper echelons of London and New York society? Was Anna Chapman really an old fashioned Russian honeytrap or was she underestimated by the world's press? What was life like for wealthy Russians in "Londongrad" in the early 21st centu ... Show More

14m 31s

Jul 2024

The Spy Who Defused the Missile Crisis | Manoeuvres in Moscow | 3

Oleg Penkovsky is back in the USSR, ready to feed Soviet secrets to his new MI6 contact: a pram-pushing mother of three. But with the Berlin Crisis about to boil over, his intel could be the difference between war and peace. But with the KGB lurking everywhere smuggling these sec ... Show More

43m 2s

Australia’s First Woman Prime Minister