The Heaton Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Take a break from your family festivites and join John for his most excellent interview with Professor Juliet John. She is world renowned expert on Charles Dickens, from the University of London. 

Send us Fan Mail Join John and Olly for a chat at school before Christmas, including their recommended reading, before Noah and Owen interview the former Master of the Domincan Order of Britain. He has a hopeful message for us all! 

Send us Fan Mail The Heaton Podcast is joined by Old Warwickian Oli Dugmore. Oli is now editor of the Politics Joe website, where he hosts his own podcast as well as presenting a radio show on LBC. 

Send us Fan Mail John and Olly discuss the Yorkist rule of Edward IV, Edward V and then Richard III. They are also joined by Simon to dicuss Wales's role in the dynatic conflict. 

Send us Fan Mail John and Olly are on location. Join them as they journey around Warwick Castle and talk more about the Wars of the Roses. The chaos of Towton, the reign of Edward IV and the climax of Tewkesbury. 

Send us Fan Mail John and Olly delve into the Wars of the Roses on this episode. Tracing the origins of the conflict they talk about the early stages of the war through the prism of the experience of one of the main protagonists - Richard Duke of York. 

Send us Fan Mail As another war enrupts in the Middle East, John and Olly chart the origins of the current problems in Gaza. 

Send us Fan Mail Listen to this fascinating interview with Gareth Russell as he takes us into life in the Tudor court, focusing on Henry VIII's fifth wife, Catherine Howard. 

Send us Fan Mail Warwick School students, Noah and Kane, interview a group of Ukrainian teachers. The most powerful and moving podcast yet. 

Send us Fan Mail Join the team as they look back at the world in 1973. Both in Britain, America and the economic shocks of the time. 

Send us Fan Mail Discover Eighteenth Century Ireland as Patrick Stiven takes us on a journey to explain what Ireland was like in the 1800s and what this means for Ireland now. 

Send us Fan Mail Barry  Goldwater was the Republican nominee who lost the 1964 presidential election. Despite being heavily beaten, his influence reshaped the Republican Party, paving the way for Ronald Reagan, and maybe even Donald Trump. 

Send us Fan Mail John is joining by Mr. Bennett and the two of them interview Sam Fowles about the state of British Democracy. Are our freedoms under threat? 

Send us Fan Mail A fascinating disucssion about the state of Britain and it's future.  “Engaging people’s hopes and fears about integration and immigration, identity and race. Working for a confident  and welcoming Britain, inclusive and fair to all”.    

Send us Fan Mail Listen to John and Olly talk about the life and presidency of Jimmy Carter. US president 1977-1981 he is the oldest living ex-president. The first 15 minutes also features some discussion of Politics. 

Send us Fan Mail John and Simon chat to Ed Button OW on his journey from Warwick School pupil to a member of the world famous King’s Singers.

Send us Fan Mail The Heaton Podcast does rugby! Listen to Simon and Olly talk about the sport of rugby, and more particularly the  History of the Six Nations tournament. 

Send us Fan Mail Listen to this podcast in which Dr. Holly Reeve charts her career after leaving Kings High School 

Send us Fan Mail Simon and John are joined by Phil Neale to discuss Lawrence of Arabia. 

Send us Fan Mail Join John and Olly in this politics centred episode where they contemplate the state of Globalisation. What is it and where is it going? 

Send us Fan Mail Join John and Simon as they talk to Prefessor Clare Jackoson about her wonderful book Devil-Land. How the state of England was viewed by outsiders in the years 1588-1688. 

Send us Fan Mail John and Olly catch up after Chirstmas, featuring a conversation in Ukraine. They are then joined by Sixth Former Vinny who tells about Russia infleunce on Poland in the Eighteenth Century. 

Send us Fan Mail John and Simon are joined by Ameet Gill to discuss his career in general, but focusing on the time he worked for David Cameron as his speech writer. 

Send us Fan Mail Simon has been travelling to Singapore. He comes back to lead us in a discussion on the Fall of Singapore in 1942. 

Send us Fan Mail John, Olly and Simon consider what went wrong for Liz Truss in her remarkably short time as Prime Minister.