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The Hipstorians

 Derek Mulligan

Two perhaps not so hip middle-aged amateur historians sharing their acquired knowledge and passion for all things past in their search to discover something new

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Update frequency
every 5 days
Average duration
49 minutes
Episodes
59
Years Active
2022 - 2023
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On drugs and music

On drugs and music

And now, for something a little bit different as we talk to Harry Shapiro, author and journalist who has been working in the UK drugs charity sector and as a music biographer. His books include, Recr…
00:53:15  |   Thu 12 Jan 2023
The battle for Syria

The battle for Syria

Christopher Phillips tells us the background story about how the United States and other nations have played a part in Syria’s ongoing civil war. Although the war-torn country's brutal, long-lasting …

00:50:29  |   Thu 05 Jan 2023
The CIA spy turned stay-at-home-mom

The CIA spy turned stay-at-home-mom

Former CIA agent Christina Hillsburgh lets us in on the secret world of spycraft and the techniques and skills she learned to teach parents how to raise resourceful, self-sufficient children that she…
00:32:24  |   Thu 29 Dec 2022
Area 51, aliens and nuclear war

Area 51, aliens and nuclear war

American investigative journalist, Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times best-selling author, Annie Jacobsen, will keep you up at night wondering about the secrets she has unearthed in works lik…

00:55:52  |   Thu 22 Dec 2022
Travelling through Muslim Europe

Travelling through Muslim Europe

In his enlightening new book Minarets in the Mountains, Tharik Hussain brings to life the rarely told story of Muslim Europe, and the 600-year-old Ottoman Muslim heritage and culture of the Balkans

H…

00:45:47  |   Thu 15 Dec 2022
First to fight Hitler!

First to fight Hitler!

Poland was the first country to face the full onslaught of the murderous force of the Nazis at the start of World War Two. By the end of the war, one in five of its people had perished. Roger Mooreho…
00:40:50  |   Thu 08 Dec 2022
A true historical detective story set in the 16th Century

A true historical detective story set in the 16th Century

Edward Wilson-Lee's 'A History of Water' is a true historical detective story set in sixteenth-century Portugal. We follow two men - one a collector, historian and expert on water-music who ends up d…

00:38:51  |   Thu 01 Dec 2022
The monk who lit up the Dark Ages

The monk who lit up the Dark Ages

Author Seb Falk brings us on a fascinating journey back to the so-called Dark Ages to meet our guide, an enlightened 14th-century English monk, who was also a pathbreaking astronomer, in his book The…
00:39:15  |   Thu 24 Nov 2022
The Irish SAS legend

The Irish SAS legend

Soldier, rugby star, lawyer, amateur boxer and founding member of the Special Air Service (SAS), Lieutenant Colonel Robert Blair 'Paddy' Mayne became one of the British Army's most highly decorated s…
00:51:26  |   Thu 17 Nov 2022
Coming of age in Northern Ireland's year of Chaos

Coming of age in Northern Ireland's year of Chaos

As a cub reporter Malachi O Doherty cut his teeth covering one of the worst years of the so-called Troubles. He was just 21-years-of-age, as the conflict escalated in 1972, but would go on to become …
00:47:38  |   Tue 15 Nov 2022
Growing up during Belfast Days as a teenage girl

Growing up during Belfast Days as a teenage girl

Journalist and author Eimear O Callaghan was just 16-years-of-age when she kept a diary over the course of one year - 1972 - while growing up in Belfast. In this heart-rending and emotional interview…
00:39:24  |   Tue 15 Nov 2022
Alexander the Great sex god

Alexander the Great sex god

In this episode Tristan Hughes, producer and presenter at History Hit, host of The Ancients history podcast, and author of Alexander’s Successors at War: The Perdiccas Years 323 - 320 brings us back …
00:54:36  |   Thu 10 Nov 2022
Saving the world from cybercrime

Saving the world from cybercrime

Pulitzer Prize-winner Dan Golden joins us from Boston, Massachusetts to tell us all about the real-life technological thriller he has written with Renee Dudley about a band of eccentric misfits who a…
00:42:40  |   Thu 03 Nov 2022
Taking down the Islamic State

Taking down the Islamic State

In ‘The Spymaster of Baghdad’ Pulitzer Prize-finalist Margaret Coker tells the gripping story of the spymaster and two of his agents, the Sudani brothers - one undercover in ISIS for 16 long months, …

00:43:13  |   Thu 27 Oct 2022
To battle! From the Normans to the Taliban

To battle! From the Normans to the Taliban

From the Normans to the Taliban, Graeme Callister and Rachael Whitbread take us on a wide-ranging tour back through history of some of the world's most iconic battlefields they researched for their f…

00:57:22  |   Thu 20 Oct 2022
Former US Navy SEAL tells the real story behind the Osama Bin Laden raid

Former US Navy SEAL tells the real story behind the Osama Bin Laden raid

Since Chuck will be returning to The Hipstorians we thought it might be right to reintroduce him, here he is former US Navy SEAL Chuck Pfarrer. He takes us on a whirlwind ride from the taking down of…

00:52:11  |   Thu 13 Oct 2022
The real-life Indiana Jones who discovered a new species of modern human in an ancient cave

The real-life Indiana Jones who discovered a new species of modern human in an ancient cave

Professor at the University of Vienna, Tom is into dating (of the ancient variety), archaeological sites, bones, and Neanderthals. Author of 'The World Before Us' he tells the Hipstorians about his f…

00:35:36  |   Wed 05 Oct 2022
The young diplomat who once met Robert Mugabe, the

The young diplomat who once met Robert Mugabe, the "brilliant and angry" dictator

Arthur Snell joined the Foreign Office straight out of university and at 23-years-of-age, endured a 'baptism of fire' when he was sent to Zimbabwe as his first posting.



During a turbulent time in that…

00:42:29  |   Fri 30 Sep 2022
From South Armagh's 'Bandit Country' to the Battle for Fallujah

From South Armagh's 'Bandit Country' to the Battle for Fallujah

In this, our first-ever broadcast for The Hipstorians, we talk to the fearless, award-winning reporter Toby Harnden about his adventures over a 25-year career in journalism.


Thrown into the deep end w…

00:51:23  |   Fri 30 Sep 2022
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