Podcast
The Heaton Podcast
Hosted by Oliver O'Brien & John Jefferies · EN
A discussion of History and Politics from teachers at Warwick School. We aim to produce a podcast once a fortnight during term time. Topics will tend towards the last 200 years, but we will sometimes go back further into History.
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Episodes
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Falklands Encounter with Chris Howe MBE
3w ago00:38:45Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailAn encounter with the Falklands. Listen here to Chris Howe, MBE, who served on HMS Coventry in the Falklands War. He has a first rate story to tell.
Transcribe →John Major Part 2
4w ago00:48:35Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailJohn and Olly meet to discuss the Premiership of John Major after 1992.
Transcribe →JJ Hot Take: Keir Starmer Resigns
4w ago00:34:00Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailListen to John and Olly give their opinion on the Burnham heist. How has Andy Burnham, someone not even in Parliament when he started, managed to topple the Prime Minister??
Transcribe →Emergency Broadcast: Starmer in Trouble!
Jun 1200:23:51Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailJoin John and Olly as they chat about the PM's latest set of ministerial resignations.
Transcribe →An Encounter with Britain's Nuclear Bomb: Operation Grapple
May 2700:48:47Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailJohn has an outstanding story to tell here. He and Mr. Hadley interview Derek Woolf. He was an RAF medic present at the nuclear tests, by Britain, in the South Pacific in the 1950s
Transcribe →John Major as Prime Minister
May 2200:36:51Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailJohn and Olly have a retro burst with looking at the 1990s Prime Minister of Britain - John Major. Was he as boring as he has been remembered?
Transcribe →Richard II
May 800:54:36Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailJoin John and Olly at Warwick. First they make an amble around the cricket pitch haveing a natter, before John leads them in a discussion about Richard II as king.
Transcribe →Welington as a politician.
Apr 2300:48:44Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailWe are back! John and Olly finally complete their triology on the Duke of Wellington. Listen in for some current politcal disocurse as well.
Transcribe →Prime Minister in Crisis : The JJ Hot take
Feb 500:06:50Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailCrisis in Westminster. Will Epstein bring down the PM. Listen to what JJ has to say...
Transcribe →January - Trying to make sense of Trump
Jan 2000:40:27Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailJohn and Olly join together at the start of term in January and try to make sense of Trump.
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