Voices Through History brings the past back to speak for itself. Cleopatra, Rasputin, Shakespeare, William Wallace, Amelia Earhart, and more, in dramatised interviews hosted by award-winning voice-over artist Anlie Hattingh.
Not stories told about them. Stories told by them.
Each episode is built on real historical research and voiced with era-authentic dialect, because getting it right matters more than getting it fast.
Anlie presses, challenges, and digs past the myth to find the person underneath.
Not just a podcast. The interview history never got to give.
The world’s most famous woman pilot first became famous for a flight she didn’t fly.
In this episode of Voices Through History, Anlie interviews Amelia Earhart, the Kansas girl who climbed trees, kept a scrapbook of women doing what the papers said women shouldn’t, and bought her own bright yellow airplane within six months of her first lesson. Amelia talks through the 1928 Atlantic crossing that made her a celebrity as a passenger, the letter she wrote before agreeing to marry, and the 1932 solo flight that finally made the record hers.
She also takes on the questions that have followed her for nearly a century: what happened over the Pacific in 1937, and what she would rather the world remembered instead.
Everyone knows how her story ends. This time, she tells the first half.
7 Oct 2026
William Wallace
⚠️ This episode includes descriptions of medieval execution and violence.
He had no title, no crown and no army of his own. He ended up ruling Scotland.
In this episode of Voices Through History, Anlie Hatting interviews William Wallace: the unknown knight who refused to kneel to Edward I, rose with Andrew Moray at Stirling Bridge, and became Guardian of Scotland. Wallace talks through the uprising, the victory won on a narrow bridge, and the defeat at Falkirk that cost him everything he had built.
He also answers the questions history still argues over. Did Marion Braidfute exist? Who betrayed him? And what did he say to the court that condemned him for treason, when he was never Edward's subject?
He survived England's whole army. He did not survive one fellow Scot with a price in mind.
24 Sept 2026
William Shakespeare
He never sought a throne, never led an army, never held a title of power. Four hundred years later, no voice in the English language has travelled further.
In this episode of Voices Through History, Anlie Hatting interviews William Shakespeare — glove-maker's son, married at eighteen, father of three by twenty-one, and then, for seven mysterious years, missing entirely from the historical record. What he did in that silence, he refuses to fully explain.
He built his own theatre by literally stealing it — dismantling it beam by beam under cover of night and rebuilding it across the river as the Globe. He invented words the English language didn't yet have, including "lonely." He buried a son named Hamnet, and years later wrote a play called Hamlet — and even he won't say whether the two are connected.
He asked for no monument beyond his words. Four hundred years on, we are still saying his name — and living inside the language he gave us, every single day, whether we know it or not.
22 Sept 2026
Rasputin
A peasant with no title, no wealth, and no education ended up whispering advice into the ears of Russia's royal family.
In this episode of Voices Through History, Anlie Hatting interviews Grigori Rasputin - the man history remembers as the Mad Monk, the Black Monk, the Holy Devil. To his followers, a miracle worker sent by God. To his enemies, a fraud, a manipulator, and a threat to the Russian Empire itself.
He claimed he could save a dying heir to the throne when Russia's greatest doctors couldn't. He became the Empress's closest confidant, and the most hated man in the country - sometimes in the very same breath.
Was he a healer? A predator? A prophet who saw his own death coming? Rasputin answers for all of it — the rumours, the palace, and the empire that collapsed within months of his murder.
The Holy Devil.
16 Sept 2026
Leonardo da Vinci
The greatest mind of the Renaissance never sat in a classroom.
In this episode of Voices Through History, Anlie Hatting interviews Leonardo da Vinci — painter, anatomist, inventor, engineer, and the epitome of a Renaissance man. Illegitimate and self-taught, denied both formal schooling and his father's profession, Leonardo turned freedom into obsession — filling notebooks with mirror-written observations on flight, water, anatomy, and light.
To paint the human body truly, he needed to understand what lay beneath it — so he obtained bodies for dissection through means that were not always legal.
He designed weapons for warlords, painted a fresco that should have crumbled centuries ago, and carried one small portrait with him for the rest of his life — long after it was ever supposed to leave his hands.
Anatomy of a genius.
3 Sept 2026
Blackbeard
The most feared pirate in history — and he barely needed to fight.
In this episode of Voices Through History, Anlie interviews Edward Teach — the man the world knew as Blackbeard. Smoking fuses tucked into his beard. Wild eyes. A name built to travel faster than his ship ever could. Most crews surrendered the moment they saw his flag, long before a blade was ever drawn.
He built the most terrifying reputation on the high seas — not with violence, but with fear itself.
So what was the real weapon? Anlie presses him on the myth, the man, and how it all came to an end.
2 Sept 2026
Joan of Arc
She was seventeen when she walked into a French court and told a king that God had sent her to save his kingdom. She was nineteen when they burned her for it — officially, not for heresy or witchcraft, but for the crime of wearing men's clothing.
In this episode, Anlie Hatting sits across from Joan herself, giving Joan room to explain a life most people only know as a statue or a saint's day.
Was it faith, or desperation? Voices from God, or a girl who needed one to believe in?
What emerges isn't the marble martyr from the history books. It's a teenage girl — frightened, certain, and utterly unshakeable, all at once — trying to explain the impossible thing she did, to someone who's finally willing to listen properly.
History has never decided if she was mad, or chosen. This is her chance to decide for you.
1 Sept 2026
Season 1 Trailer
🎙️ The past is about to speak for itself.
Eight legends. Kings, queens, rebels, and outcasts — pressed and challenged until the myth falls away and the person underneath finally gets to talk.
Voices Through History — the Season 1 trailer is live now.
Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Jamit.
27 Aug 2026
Cleopatra
Cleopatra: The Last of the Pharaohs
She was one of the most powerful women of the ancient world. A queen, a strategist, a mother, a lover — and the final ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt.
But history has often reduced Cleopatra to a story of seduction, romance and tragedy.
In this episode of Voices Through History, Cleopatra gets to tell her own story.
From her struggle to hold on to Egypt, to her alliances with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, and her final confrontation with Octavian, we step beyond the legend to meet the woman behind the myth.
And in the end, when Augustus wanted to parade her through Rome as a trophy, Cleopatra made one final choice....
Listen to Voices Through History: Cleopatra – The Last of the Pharaohs, on Jamit, or wherever you listen to your podcasts.
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