British History Podcast 9+

This podcast is superb. Jamie has undertaken the massive task of casting the WHOLE of British History. He does this on a weekly basis in a relaxed, witty and irreverent style. I stumbled on this by accident and within 3 episodes I was hooked. I dare you to try the same. Go ahead; take my challenge! I'm currently playing catch up and have reached the end of the C7th CE. That's about 3 years of weekly casts! 3 years folks! I still have over a hundred casts to go to catch up. Jamie offers all of this for free. He also has a cheap monthly members fee. This gains you even more in depth and specialist programmes. Brilliant. Utterly brilliant. Get on board, don't miss this train!

First of all, let me say that I LOVE the BHP - Jamie is an excellent narrator and you can tell that he has researched each and every episode, and spent a lot of time doing so. Also Producer Zee is a rockstar and I love when she turns up and they bounce ideas off each other.

I've been listening to the free podcast for a couple of years, and when I got up to date, I decided to become a member and paid for a year's membership. I decided to do this as I had enjoyed the clips and odd episodes that Jamie released every now and again.

Now while these episodes are still excellent, the app is not. I normally listen to my podcasts on the go, and so tend to download them at home and listen on the train. With the member's feed, it only streams and I just don't have the data for that. Then it will crash after I've listened to an episode, and I have to do and reopen the whole app. If it crashes in the middle of a show, or I have to pause halfway through, it doesn't store where I'm up to, so I have to guess. And finally it doesn't have a way to know which shows I've listened to, so I can miss some, and repeat others.

All in all, while I love the show, I hate the app, and this is what my rating is for. It makes listening to the member's feed a real faff.

I found this podcast when looking for some info on Alfred. I was initially irritated that a British history podcast was being narrated by an American, though that was short lived as I listened to all the podcasts about Alfred then went back to the start and listened to everything. This is a great podcast and I am sorry I had such bad thoughts about Jamie first time out. I am a religious listener now. Not literally, more agnostic/atheist in a literal sense, but religiously listen...you get it, right?