Guest Podcast: Alexander Manners chats to Tim Bouverie
Alexander Manners, Year 7 student at Sandroyd School chats to Tim Bouverie, historian and author of the Sunday Times bestseller, Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill And the Road to War.
Audio recordings of some of our talks from previous festivals, released throughout the years.
Guest Podcast: Alexander Manners chats to Annelise Gray
Alexander Manners, Year 7 student at Sandroyd School chats to Annelise Gray, author of the best-selling Circus Maximus series.
Guest Podcast: Alexander Manners chats to Tom Holland
Alexander Manners, Year 7 student at Sandroyd School chats to Tom Holland, historian, author and broadcaster – co-hosts, with Dominic Sandbrook the no.1 listened-to history podcast The Rest is History.
Guest Podcast: Alexander Manners chats to James Holland
Alexander Manners, Year 7 student at Sandroyd School chats to James Holland.
🎧 Anne Frank: Her Life And Light
Audio from Chalke Valley History Festival 2017.
German-born Dutch-Jewish teenager, Anne Frank who went into hiding during the Holocaust, is probably the best known diarist of the modern world. In this audio from CVHF 2017, Peter Caddick-Adams talks about her life and legacy.
🎧 THE SECRET SPITFIRES
Audio from Chalke Valley History Festival 2018.
Salisbury and the surrounding area has a proud wartime heritage for thousands of Spitfires were built here in sheds, garages, bus depots and even a hotel. Norman Parker, one of the last surviving Spitfire engineers, talks about the top-secret wartime construction of the RAF’s most celebrated fighter plane with Ethem Cetintas, director of the acclaimed film, The Secret Spitfires.
🎧 TYPHOONS AND THE EFFECT OF AIR POWER
Audio from Chalke Valley History Festival 2019.
Paul Beaver discusses with John Buckley and Paul Stoddart, the importance of that unsung hero of WWII, the rocket firing Hawker Typhoon.
WINKLE AND THE JETS
Audio from Chalke Valley History Festival 2018.
Always fearless, sometimes impetuous, Captain Eric Brown, better known as Winkle, was an early jet and rocket fighter pioneer. Unusual in being a naval pilot, his experience in immediate post-war Germany and at the Royal Aircraft Establishment has passed into legend. His biographer Paul Beaver separates reality from the myth and legend, shining a new light on Winkle’s exploits.
🎧 Lenin’s Train
Audio recorded at Chalke Valley History Festival 2017.
Pushkin Prize-winning author, and eminent historian of Russia, Professor Catherine Merridale takes us on Lenin’s fateful train journey from exile in Zurich to his eventual ecstatic reception by the revolutionary crowds in Petrograd. During the course of a train ride, she gives a gripping account of how Lenin hijacked the liberal Russian revolution and changed the history of the world.
🎧 Young Churchill
Recording from Chalke Valley History Festival 2019.
When we think of Winston Churchill we think of the gruff wartime leader with the bulldog features, cigar and hat. It’s hard to imagine he was ever young. But in this talk for all ages, best-selling author and comedian, Charlie Higson will vividly bring the young Winston to life, from when he joined the army aged 20 until he first entered parliament five years later, having fought on three continents and begun his writing career as a war correspondent.
