In this episode of Travels Through Time we are taken on an invigorating tour of the ports, coasts and oceans of the world with Professor David Abulafia – winner of the 2020 Wolfson History Prize for his book, The Boundless Sea.

In this swashbuckling episode of Travels Through Time we head back to the year 1453. We watch on as the brilliant, ruthless young sultan, Mehmet II …

In this episode Professor Greg Woolf takes us to 146 BCE – the point at which Roman domination of the Mediterranean became inevitable.

In this brilliantly descriptive and entertaining episode of Travels Through Time the award-winning writer and satirist Craig Brown takes us on a cultural tour of 1963.

In this episode of Travels Through Time, the writer and broadcaster Luke Pepera introduces us to Mansa Musa, a dazzling figure in African history.

In this fascinating season three opener, we talk to Professor James Shapiro, one of the world’s leading scholars of the life and work of William Shakespeare. He guides us back to the year 1845 to tell us where the concept of ‘Manifest Destiny’ came from and what it meant at that time.

We're really excited to let you know that the third season of Travels Through Time begins on Tuesday 21 July