Few historical figures have been discussed and debated as much as Adolf Hitler. There is an abundance of primary source material available about his life: personal correspondence, political directives and military orders, recordings and transcripts of his countless speeches, eyewitness accounts, photographs and film footage. It is not hyperbolic to say he is one of the most studied humans in history. Now, 80 years after his death, Turi King and Alex J Kay have married genetics with history to study a sample of DNA from Adolf Hitler – and, as they reveal, their research has thrown up some extraordinary insights into the Nazi dictator’s private life. These findings are made public in Hitler's DNA: Blueprint of a Dictator, a groundbreaking documentary produced by Blink Films and currently airing globally. This program has unlocked a new source by presenting the results of this first time analysis of a sample of Hitler’s DNA. The DNA was taken from the blood on a small piece of fabric cut from the sofa on which Hitler died after shooting himself in his Berlin bunker on 30 April 1945.

Turi Emma King is a professor and Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath. She was previously Professor of Public Engagement and Genetics at the University of Leicester. In 2012, King led the DNA verification during the exhumation and reburial of Richard III of England

Alex J. Kay is a British historian who specialises in Nazi Germany. He is best known for his publications on the Hunger Plan and the genocide of Soviet Jewry. He is the Reader in modern History at the Chair of War Studies, at the University of Potsdam where he has taught since 2017.

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Music has long been a powerful mirror of cultural trends. During America’s controversial involvement in the Vietnam War, popular music became a key arena for expressing both support and opposition. Pro-war songs often highlighted patriotism, duty, and solidarity with soldiers, reinforcing traditional ideals. Meanwhile, anti-war artists used their music to question government decisions, mourn the human cost, and rally a growing peace movement. Together, these contrasting voices revealed a nation divided, showing how American popular music not only reflected history but actively shaped public conversation during a turbulent era.

To help us dive safely into this melodic menage of cultural history we have brought on Dr Justin A. Brummer . Justin is the founding editor of the Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP) since 2007, based in Austin, TX, a unique cultural-historical archive, cataloguing, analysing, and digitising 6000+ songs that reference the Vietnam War, as well as the acquisition of original vinyl records and other physical sources. He is co-author of the discography Vietnam on Record at the University of Maryland, and has featured in prominent news and history outlets, including the BBC, PBS, NPR, Shindig!, Military.com, the Journal of TX Music History, and History Today.

The archive for the Vietnam War Song Project is hosted on RYM. Songs are posted on the YouTube channel of the same name. Project updates are on Bluesky and Instagram.

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The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was undeniably a controversial global war, despite the formation of a ‘Coalition of the Willing.’ Leading this coalition was certainly the United States, but ardently supporting them was Great Britain. The war itself caused immense destabilization in Iraq and had profound ramifications for middle east stability. Yet, when the 20th anniversary of the war arrived, British media wrote about it in such a way as to eschew all responsibility for their coverage of the war and pin the unpopularity on the government and political/military decision making at the time. To explore how the British media wrote about the Iraq war at the time of the conflicts 20th anniversary is to explore a media legacy that was largely uncritical of its own role in covering the conflict. Catriona Pennell is our guest today and she is going to unpack this complex issue and dive into the media’s role when it comes to modern conflict and help us understand how the media chooses to remember, or not remember, aspects of their own culpability when a nation goes to war.

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