New Historical fiction Podcasts

Pop Culture Period Piece

66 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago
Julie and Laura, Orlando-based pop-culture & history aficionados, talk through the best and worst pop culture period pieces. If you love movies and television shows with fancy dresses, rules of pro...

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24 episodes - Latest episode: about 3 years ago
The turbulent life of ancient Rome uniquely written from a woman's perspective. Pomponia Graecina uncovers and exposes conspiracy, intrigue, injustice and murder while aiming to give a voice to th...

What If World History?

15 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★ - 19 ratings
The events that shape our world, and our future, take many turns. What If World History? explores an alternative timeline to the events that molded our lives. Take a trip with us.

Fictionalia

14 episodes - Latest episode: over 3 years ago
A group of astronauts wake from one thousand years of stasis aboard a generation ship in orbit around an alien world. A small band of militia fighters do battle with the United States military. Thr...

Christian Historical Fiction Talk

179 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Reviews, author interviews, and discussion about the best in Christian historical fiction.

Rereading the Stone

90 episodes - Latest episode: 22 days ago
Rereading the Stone is a weekly discussion of historical Chinese literature, philosophy, and poetry, currently focusing on the Qing dynastic Classic novel Dream of the Red Chamber (Hong lou meng 紅樓...

Voyage of the August

9 episodes - Latest episode: over 3 years ago
A tale of queer love and mutiny on the high seas! The Voyage of the August chronicles the final voyage of a merchant ship bound for England in 1717, whose crew takes their fate into their own hands...

Vampires of the Paper Flower Consortium

35 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago
Come for the evening, stay for eternity! Paper Flower Consortium is a podcast from the largest vampire coven in Seattle. Their stories are told by Loretta Fabron Onfoy, coven historian and librari...

Salvation and Stuff

31 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago
Salvation and Stuff is a weekly podcast hosted by Micah Coate. It's aim is to engage, encourage, and enlighten all people towards a deeper faith in Jesus.

Red Shadows by Robert Ervin Howard

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Red Shadows is the first of a series of stories featuring Howard’s puritan avenger, Solomon Kane. Kane tracks his prey over land and sea, enters the jungles of Africa, and even faces dark Gods and ...

King Henry IV by William Shakespeare

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 4 ratings
King Henry IV, Part 1 is the second of Shakespeare’s eight Wars of the Roses history plays, with events following those of King Richard II. As the play opens, King Henry IV (formerly Henry Bolingb...

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 8 ratings
Though it's titled The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, the man himself appears only in five scenes in the entire play! However, such is his impact on the events that surrounded him that he still remains ...

Where Angels Fear to Tread by Edward M. Forster

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 2 ratings
On a journey to Tuscany with her young friend and traveling companion Caroline Abbott, widowed Lilia Herriton falls in love with both Italy and a handsome Italian much younger than herself, and dec...

Fast in the Ice by Robert Michael Ballantyne

11 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 1 rating
At the age of 16 Ballantyne went to Canada and was six years in the service of the Hudson’s Bay Company. His rule in writing, being in every case, was to write as far as possible from personal know...

Diary of a U-boat Commander by Sir Stephen King-Hall

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
The infamous U boats deployed by Germany in the two World Wars have spawned several works of fiction and non-fiction. These deadly vessels were not just efficient and lethal killing machines, but t...

Shoes and Stockings: A Collection of Short Stories by Louisa May Alcott

18 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Here are tales of love and war, modesty and frivolity, laughter and tears. Louisa May Alcott wrote many, many short stories. This collection shares but 7 of them.

Oh for Art’s Sake Podcast

24 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Seeing all the greatest art through the lenses of the crazy world these artists were living in and how that might be picked up on in the art ... or just creating a picture of how they were on a mor...

Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

90 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
First serialized from January to August, 1845, Twenty Years After is the second book in The D’Artagnan Romances, and follows the gallant adventures of the musketeers, as they are once again summone...

Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

27 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer, was first published in 1842, and is one of the most prominent works of 19th-century Russian literature. Gogol himself saw it as an “epic poem in prose”,...

God's Country—And the Woman by James Oliver Curwood

27 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
James Curwood wrote many adventures of the far north. By 1909 he had saved enough money to travel to the Canadian northwest, a trip that provided the inspiration for his wilderness adventure storie...

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

28 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace chronicles the lives of five Russian aristocratic families during Napoleon's invasion of Russia. Many considered this book to be the best Russian work of literature of a...

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

31 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 15 ratings
Kidnapped is the story of a 16-year old young man who is searching for his true birthright and is determined to make a fortune after the death of his parents. This timeless tale by Robert Louis St...

The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott

32 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 2 ratings
The Talisman is a gripping tale set near the end of the Third Crusade. King Richard the Lionheart is grievously ill, and all around him the leaders from allied countries plot and scheme to gain per...

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

34 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago

Men of Iron by Howard Pyle

35 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Men of Iron by Howard Pyle is historical fiction that transports us back to the 1400’s, a time of knighthood and chivalry. Myles Falworth is eight years old when news comes they must flee their hom...

Rainbow Valley by Lucy Maud Montgomery

35 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
If you've read and loved Anne of Green Gables, you'd definitely like to add Rainbow Valley by Lucy Maud Montgomery to your collection. Published in 1919, it is the seventh book in the series and f...

Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini

36 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad!” The wonderful opening lines of this 1921 novel set the tone for the rest of this delightful story of an adventurer and roma...

Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

40 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Inspired by a true life story, Lady Audley's Secret is the story of a woman's overwhelming ambition and passion for social success. When the first book came out in 1862, Victorian readers were shoc...

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

44 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 9 ratings
Medieval England in the 12th century. The evil Prince John rules England in place of his brother, the noble Richard the Lionheart, who is being held in an Austrian prison by Duke Leopold of Austria...

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

45 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
Uncle Tom’s Cabin is one of the most controversial novels of the last century, with it’s sentimental portrayal of the anti-slavery movement in the USA. Written in 1852, the novel instantly rose to ...