The Heaton Podcast

Send us Fan Mail John leads the Heaton Podcast in its first ever live episode - in this episode John and Olly consider what the turning points of the Second World War. But, of real interest in this episode are JJ's reflections on his career at the end.  

Send us Fan Mail A brief bonus episode in which OW Danny Rogers tells us about his encounter with Andy Burnham. 

Send us Fan Mail An 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. 

Send us Fan Mail John and Olly meet to discuss the Premiership of John Major after 1992. 

Send us Fan Mail Listen 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??

Send us Fan Mail Join John and Olly as they chat about the PM's latest set of ministerial resignations. 

Send us Fan Mail John 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

Send us Fan Mail John 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? 

Send us Fan Mail Join 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. 

Send us Fan Mail We are back! John and Olly finally complete their triology on the Duke of Wellington. Listen in for some current politcal disocurse as well. 

Send us Fan Mail Crisis in Westminster. Will Epstein bring down the PM. Listen to what JJ has to say...

Send us Fan Mail John and Olly join together at the start of term in January and try to make sense of Trump. 

Send us Fan Mail In the second part of our Duke of Wellington podcast, John and Olly take you on a tour of the battlefield of Waterloo. 

Send us Fan Mail Join John and Olly as they discuss Wellington's life up to the battle of Waterloo. 

Send us Fan Mail Join JJ and OROB for their catch up on all things Politics, before they introduce their next topic. The Duke of Wellington! 

Send us Fan Mail John and Olly reflect on the last year of the Second World War in Europe. Olly shares a personal anecdote as to hwo the war ended on the Western Front. 

Send us Fan Mail The Heaton Podcast Returns! Listen to John and Olly provide their political analysis on what has happened in UK politics. 

Send us Fan Mail  An encounter with the House of Lords. Produced for Lower Sixth revision purposes.

Send us Fan Mail John and Olly welcome the Nelson Society to the podcast. We hear the life and stories from one of England's great heroes. Horatio Lord Nelson, victor of the Nile and Trafalgar. One of our most enjoyable podacast. 

Send us Fan Mail John and Olly try to explain and understand the growing threat from the hard right. 

Send us Fan Mail John and Olly talk about the Six Day War of 1967 in which Israel overwhelms its Arabs neighbours. Excellent GCSE revision, but intersting to listen to as well! 

Send us Fan Mail Using the song Amazing Grace as a way to examine slavery. The sins of one man, his story of redemption and the good that he carried out at the end of his life. Can one man be redeemed. Can Britain be redeemed for its past sins. 

Send us Fan Mail The Birdman of Auschwitz is a Encounter episode where John gives us a unique window onto the historical catastrophe of the Holocaust. 

Send us Fan Mail Join John and Olly for an engaging chat about the Crimean war of the 1850s and the infamous Charge of the Light Brigade.  Half a league, half a league,  Half a league onward,  All in the valley of Death     Rode the six hundred.  “Forward, the Light Brigade!  Charge for the guns!” he said.  Into the valley of Death     Rode the six hundred.

Send us Fan Mail From November 2024, John and Olly have one of their most brilliant encounters with General Sir Simon Mayall who discusses the Middle East with incredible breadth and depth of knowledge whilst also bringing in a great depth of personal experience.