
Pete & Gary's Military History
Hosted by Gary Bain and Peter Hart and Gary and Pete and Pete Hart · Peter Hart
4.8from 209 ratings
- 353
- Episodes
- 31
- Transcribed
- 209
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 5M
- YouTube views
About Pete & Gary's Military History
For more than 40 years bestselling author and historian Peter Hart has interviewed thousands of veterans about their experience of war. Join him and his chum Gary Bain as they explore all aspects of military history, from the ancient world to the Second World War. Pete and Gary don't just tell the history, they bring it to life with the words of the men and women who were there! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Peter Hart
- Category
- education · history
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 15 Sept 2020
- Latest episode
- 7 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
31 of 353 episodes have a transcript.

7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
SPECIAL: Laugh or Cry - The Men All Loved Me!

2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
SPECIAL: Laugh or Cry - Fighting in the Trenches

18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep281: The Welsh Warrior - The Aisne 1918
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SPECIAL: Laugh or Cry - The Men All Loved Me!
Published 7 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It was somewhat diminutive of stature, but full of vigour, stout of heart, and of unfairly northerners can't speak properly, and failing cheerfulness and good humour. One miserable night, when it was as black as pitch and raining in torrents, we two were groping along a disused trench up to our knees in water. We were seemingly the sole representatives of our side in an evil world, with Fritz lobbing over minis, that's mininworthers, mortar shells, apparently for the purpose of our destruction. All at once there was a terrific burst of firing in the distance from the British guns, which up to then had been silent. […]
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- YouTube views
- 4,676,571
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 86 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 123 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 84 / 100
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- Quality
- 92
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 96
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Who hosts Pete & Gary's Military History?
Gary Bain and Peter Hart and Gary and Pete and Pete Hart host the show. Published by Peter Hart.
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Does Pete & Gary's Military History take guests?
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