'All history podcasts have to be measured against The Rest is History. To listen to anyone else attempt to tell historical stories in audio form is to realise just how good Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland are' James Marriott, The Times 'Holland and Sandbrook have reached a peak of listenability at which you'd happily hear them chortle through a history of paperclips or phonebooks' Jasper Rees, Telegraph 'A global sensation . . . Dives into the past with raucous good cheer' Wall Street Journal

Tom Holland is the author of a range of books on ancient and early medieval history. He has translated Herodotus and Suetonius, presented TV documentaries on subjects ranging from dinosaurs to the Islamic State, and been described by The Times as a leading English cricketer. Dominic Sandbrook was educated at Oxford, St Andrews and Cambridge, and is best known for his histories of Britain since the 1950s, most recently Who Dares Wins. He has presented many documentaries on BBC Two and Radio 4, and is a columnist for The Times and book critic for the Sunday Times.