The Trapped Historical past podcast returns this month, because it continues to deliver again to life the tales of forgotten individuals who have modified society for the higher.
Historical past podcast Trapped Historical past is again this July with co-hosts historian Oswin Baker and broadcast journalist Carla O’Shaughnessy discussing extra of historical past’s forgotten changemakers.
With new episodes launched twice a month and lasting round forty minutes, the podcast’s mission is to reboot the mainstream sense of historical past and convey to world consideration the unsung heroes not lined at school. The podcast has beforehand featured singers, scientists, troopers, artists and record-breakers from world wide.
Each episode, Oswin and Carla are joined by a particular visitor with a singular perspective or perception into the featured changemaker. A number of the company who’ve beforehand joined the present previously 4 seasons embody BBC presenter Mishal Husain, UK politician Jeremy Corbyn and award successful creator Sathnam Sanghera. The podcast offers historical past for the curious, with inspiring and sometimes heart-breaking tales of people that broke the mould with their bravery and defiance. Friends additionally nominate their very own options for historic folks they consider deserve recognition, who’re both promoted by the podcast on social media or produced as a separate mini episode.
The brand new season’s first episode kicks off with BBC presenter and creator Nihal Arthanayake discussing how Helen Bamber bore witness to some actually terrifying conversations after World Warfare II. Visitor Jet from 90s tv sport present The Gladiators covers Lisa Lyon, the girl who pioneered the world of feminine physique constructing. Plus, an enchanting interview with a changemaking hero nonetheless alive at present – 96 12 months previous tv director Madame Xuan Phuong on her experiences of the American Warfare in Vietnam.
The complete line up of episodes and launch dates are as follows:
- 01/07/2025 The Tough Dialog: Helen Bamber’s Mission to Bear Witness (with creator and BBC presenter Nihal Arthanayake)
- 15/07/2025 Connie Converse: The Misplaced Singer-Songwriter (with jazz singer Sarah-Jane Morris)
- 29/07/2025 ‘The Nice Males of Historical past’: Replaying the Identical Outdated Shtick (with The Atlantic’s Helen Lewis)
- 05/08/2025 Love within the Depths of Hell: Margarete, Milena and Ravensbruck (with creator Gwen Strauss)
- 19/08/2025 Lisa Lyon: The Physique is a Assertion (with Jet from The Gladiators)
- 02/09/2025 Madame Phuong: Recasting the American Warfare in Vietnam (with Madame Phuong herself)
- 16/09/2025 Halls of Fame: From the Pantheon to Trump’s Backyard of Heroes (with London artist Habib Hajallie)
Trapped Historical past was initially Oswin’s concept, having studied historical past at college and dealing for over 30 years as a social researcher. All through his profession, he has targeted on researching and understanding the lives of ignored and marginalised folks. Oswin first began Trapped Historical past as an Instagram account in 2020 to cowl the forgotten folks he was engaged on after which adopted with the podcast two years later, alongside along with his co-host broadcast journalist and producer Carla. A comfortable staff of three, Oswin, Carla and their engineer MK Lee file every episode collectively on the studio of an area youth centre.
The identify of the podcast speaks to its mission to interrupt folks freed from historical past, impressed by a quote from author and activist James Baldwin: “Individuals are trapped in historical past and historical past is trapped in them.”
Oswin Baker, Trapped Historical past’s founder, explains:
“If I by no means hear one other historical past present about Winston Churchill it gained’t be quickly sufficient! Don’t get me flawed – he’s extremely vital however I realised that I used to be merely bored listening to the identical previous historical past about the identical previous folks. They usually are typically the identical previous useless, white male folks. So we set about attempting to vary issues. That’s what Trapped Historical past is for – to share hidden tales of unsung heroes. And to provide our sense of historical past a little bit of a jump-start, as a result of at present we want these inspiring tales of atypical folks greater than ever earlier than.”
A historical past podcast to observe, Trapped Historical past has grown to success with round 45,000 Instagram followers and 6,000 e-mail subscribers, putting it as one of many high 20% of podcasts worldwide in line with Buzzsprout. Final 12 months, Trapped Historical past was a finalist on the Impartial Podcast Awards.
Trapped Historical past might be discovered on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, in addition to:
www.trappedhistory.com
www.instagram.com/trappedhistory
www.fb.com/trappedhistory
