Aspects of History
Hosted by Oliver Webb-Carter · Oliver Webb-Carter
- 378
- Episodes
- 219
- Transcribed
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
About Aspects of History
Welcome to the History Book Club - the club for all lovers of history, presented by writer and historian Oliver Webb-Carter. Oliver interviews authors of the best historical writing, to draw out the stories that you'll be interested in. Every month will also feature the History Film Club, as historian Roger Moorhouse and director Tim Hewitt join to discuss a historical movie. Get in touch if you want a particular area of history to be covered, because at the History Book Club, members are the most important people of all.
- Publisher
- Oliver Webb-Carter
- Category
- arts · history · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 4 Sept 2021
- Latest episode
- 11 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
219 of 378 episodes have a transcript.
11 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
42. Greta Garbo with Scott Reisfield
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41. Cold Sunset with William Boyd
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40. City Inventions with Jonn Elledge
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42. Greta Garbo with Scott Reisfield
Published 11 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And so, you know, she shoots a hardworking person from from the start. But so when did the desire to begin acting because she went to a very prestigious acting academy, didn't she? Yeah. Even before she took her job with Pup, which is the name of the department store, she wrote a letter to a friend, don't worry, I haven't given up my dreams of acting on the stage. That's all I want to do. So from some relatively young age, she was interested in theater. She would tell interviewers that as a child, she would sit in between two theaters that backed each other. So from her vantage point, she could look at the actors, you know, hanging out behind the building for both theaters. […]
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- Scott Reisfield
- William Boyd
- Jonn Elledge
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- Tim
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