A COLD WAR

Our first post-Yalta episode! Churchill and Roosevelt go home and give big speeches about how well Yalta went and how the Big Three really get each other. And then it all fell apart.

HOW TO LISTEN

If you're already a subscriber, you can listen to the full show in the player below or subscribe through iTunes or any podcast player.

If you haven't heard any of the series and want to know if you'll like it before you sign up, you can listen to the first six episodes totally free. You might want to start with Episode 1, unless of course you're an old school George Lucas fan, in which case feel free to start at Episode IV. We don't recommend it though.

O

If you haven't already, join our Facebook page and you'll be in the running to win prizes in our regular "Share The Love" and other competitions.

If you'd like a chance to win a prize, write a funny or insightful review on iTunes.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The last day of Yalta! We're out, baby!

Churchill fell asleep in the middle of an important debate and then woke up ranting about the wrong things.

Iran wants everyone to leave their oil alone but no-one cares.

Stalin wanted access to the Black Sea Straits.

And Frank does the last big deal of his life - getting Joe's agreement in writing to join the fight against Japan.

HOW TO LISTEN

If you're already a subscriber, you can listen to the full show in the player below or subscribe through iTunes or any podcast player.

If you haven't heard any of the series and want to know if you'll like it before you sign up, you can listen to the first six episodes totally free. You might want to start with Episode 1, unless of course you're an old school George Lucas fan, in which case feel free to start at Episode IV. We don't recommend it though.

T

If you haven't already, join our Facebook page and you'll be in the running to win prizes in our regular "Share The Love" and other competitions.

If you'd like a chance to win a prize, write a funny or insightful review on iTunes.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in! To Yalta!

Before the Big Three left Yalta, they signed a document that promised to allow the people of Europe "to create democratic institutions of their own choice". Of course, at the time, the British were waging a war in Greece to prevent the people creating a government of their own choice... but let's not worry about inconvenient details like that.

HOW TO LISTEN

If you're already a subscriber, you can listen to the full show in the player below or subscribe through iTunes or any podcast player.

If you haven't heard any of the series and want to know if you'll like it before you sign up, you can listen to the first six episodes totally free. You might want to start with Episode 1, unless of course you're an old school George Lucas fan, in which case feel free to start at Episode IV. We don't recommend it though.

J

If you haven't already, join our Facebook page and you'll be in the running to win prizes in our regular "Share The Love" and other competitions.

If you'd like a chance to win a prize, write a funny or insightful review on iTunes.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the Yalta conference comes to a close, the question of German reparations is settled on, but it’s obvious that Stalin still doesn’t trust the other two. And the feeling is mutual.

HOW TO LISTEN

If you're already a subscriber, you can listen to the full show in the player below or subscribe through iTunes or any podcast player.

If you haven't heard any of the series and want to know if you'll like it before you sign up, you can listen to the first six episodes totally free. You might want to start with Episode 1, unless of course you're an old school George Lucas fan, in which case feel free to start at Episode IV. We don't recommend it though.

A

If you haven't already, join our Facebook page and you'll be in the running to win prizes in our regular "Share The Love" and other competitions.

If you'd like a chance to win a prize, write a funny or insightful review on iTunes.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stalin goes hard on the issue of German reparations but meets with pushback from Churchill, while Roosevelt can't seem to make up his mind.

HOW TO LISTEN

If you're already a subscriber, you can listen to the full show in the player below or subscribe through iTunes or any podcast player.

If you haven't heard any of the series and want to know if you'll like it before you sign up, you can listen to the first six episodes totally free. You might want to start with Episode 1, unless of course you're an old school George Lucas fan, in which case feel free to start at Episode IV. We don't recommend it though.

S

If you haven't already, join our Facebook page and you'll be in the running to win prizes in our regular "Share The Love" and other competitions.

If you'd like a chance to win a prize, write a funny or insightful review on iTunes.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So after they agreed on Poland, the rest of the February 9 plenary session is spent talking about Germany.

Specifically - what to do with the Nazi big dogs.

Previously secret British War Cabinet papers released on 1 January 2006 have shown that Churchill had been advocating since 1942 for a policy of summary execution for the top Nazis.

But Stalin suggested, you know, maybe they should be put on trial before being shot like animals?

Everyone was shocked.

But Joe still wanted $10 billion in reparations - and to keep France off of the Control Commission.

HOW TO LISTEN

If you're already a subscriber, you can listen to the full show in the player below or subscribe through iTunes or any podcast player.

If you haven't heard any of the series and want to know if you'll like it before you sign up, you can listen to the first six episodes totally free. You might want to start with Episode 1, unless of course you're an old school George Lucas fan, in which case feel free to start at Episode IV. We don't recommend it though.

S

If you haven't already, join our Facebook page and you'll be in the running to win prizes in our regular "Share The Love" and other competitions.

If you'd like a chance to win a prize, write a funny or insightful review on iTunes.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have a very special guest. Professor Serhii Plokhii is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University, where he also serves as the director of the Ukrainian Research Institute. He’s the author of quite a few award-winning books including "The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine", which in 2015 won the world's most important award for non-fiction, the Lionel Gelber Prize - and a book that’s been invaluable to us while we discuss the Yalta conference, "Yalta: The Price of Peace". Serhii was kind enough to join us to talk about the importance of the Yalta conference and his analysis of the key players, the Big Three, FDR, Churchill and Stalin.

W

HOW TO LISTEN

If you're already a subscriber, you can listen to the full show in the player below or subscribe through iTunes or any podcast player.

If you haven't heard any of the series and want to know if you'll like it before you sign up, you can listen to the first six episodes totally free. You might want to start with Episode 1, unless of course you're an old school George Lucas fan, in which case feel free to start at Episode IV. We don't recommend it though.

e

If you haven't already, join our Facebook page and you'll be in the running to win prizes in our regular "Share The Love" and other competitions.

If you'd like a chance to win a prize, write a funny or insightful review on iTunes.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 9 at Yalta! The official, famous photographs are taken, and someone worries that he's going to be sent to the Gulag as a result. And the Polish question is finally settled to everyone's relief. They can almost go home. Oh and there was no raping.

HOW TO LISTEN

If you're already a subscriber, you can listen to the full show in the player below or subscribe through iTunes or any podcast player.

If you haven't heard any of the series and want to know if you'll like it before you sign up, you can listen to the first six episodes totally free. You might want to start with Episode 1, unless of course you're an old school George Lucas fan, in which case feel free to start at Episode IV. We don't recommend it though.

D

If you haven't already, join our Facebook page and you'll be in the running to win prizes in our regular "Share The Love" and other competitions.

If you'd like a chance to win a prize, write a funny or insightful review on iTunes.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Someone else was at the dinner on February 8, Day 4, at Koreiz villa - Lavrentii Beria the head of the dreaded People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs - a known womanizer and rapist.

HOW TO LISTEN

If you're already a subscriber, you can listen to the full show in the player below or subscribe through iTunes or any podcast player.

If you haven't heard any of the series and want to know if you'll like it before you sign up, you can listen to the first six episodes totally free. You might want to start with Episode 1, unless of course you're an old school George Lucas fan, in which case feel free to start at Episode IV. We don't recommend it though.

S

If you haven't already, join our Facebook page and you'll be in the running to win prizes in our regular "Share The Love" and other competitions.

If you'd like a chance to win a prize, write a funny or insightful review on iTunes.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At the end of a long day full of hard bargaining, The Big Three could still relax in one another’s company. In this episode we discuss the most important dinner of the conference.

HOW TO LISTEN

If you're already a subscriber, you can listen to the full show in the player below or subscribe through iTunes or any podcast player.

If you haven't heard any of the series and want to know if you'll like it before you sign up, you can listen to the first six episodes totally free. You might want to start with Episode 1, unless of course you're an old school George Lucas fan, in which case feel free to start at Episode IV. We don't recommend it though.

A

If you haven't already, join our Facebook page and you'll be in the running to win prizes in our regular "Share The Love" and other competitions.

If you'd like a chance to win a prize, write a funny or insightful review on iTunes.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices