HISTORY This Week
Hosted by Sally · The HISTORY® Channel | Back Pocket Studios
4.6from 5,400 ratings
- 319
- Episodes
- 100
- Transcribed
- 5,400
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 5B
- YouTube views
About HISTORY This Week
Visit htwpod.com for ad-free listening and bonus content! This week, something big happened. You might have never heard of it, but this moment changed the course of history. A HISTORY Channel original podcast, HISTORY This Week gives you insight into the people—both famous and unknown—whose decisions reshaped the world we live in today. Through interviews with experts and eyewitnesses, each episode will give you a new perspective on how history is written. Stay up-to-date at historythisweekpodcast.com and to get in touch, email us at historythisweek@history.com.HISTORY This Week is a production of Back Pocket Studios in partnership with the History Channel.
- Publisher
- The HISTORY® Channel | Back Pocket Studios
- Category
- history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 Jan 2020
- Latest episode
- 21 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
100 of 319 episodes have a transcript.
21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Man Who Taught America to Fear Fat
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Uprising: Why the Peasants Loved Their King (w/ Paul Greengrass and Dan Jones)
14 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Saladin at the Gates of Jerusalem
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The Man Who Taught America to Fear Fat
Published 21 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] White. He's like this comforting parental voice saying, you should exercise. Get out there on a bike. Don't smoke. And he also talks about what people should eat. In one article printed in The New York Times in October 1955, White points to the work of a nutrition scientist named Ansel Keys. Keyes was becoming known for something called the diet-heart hypothesis. It gives nutritional advice that you've definitely heard and probably tried to follow. Ansel Keyes may well have shaped the way Americans and the globe ate and eat more than any other biomedical scientist of the 20th century, both intentionally and unintentionally. […]
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- Steven Nissen
- Sarah Tracy
- Nina Teicholz
- Paul Greengrass
- Dan Jones
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 4,913,388,013
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 4,214 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 1,186 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 95 / 100
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- Quality
- 95
- Social presence
- 97
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 94
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Who hosts HISTORY This Week?
Sally host the show. Published by The HISTORY® Channel | Back Pocket Studios.
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