Our top picks of 2020

Rhiannon Davies

Tuning in to Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland’s new podcast, The Rest is History, during the latest lockdown has offered a great window of escape from the humdrum of hand sanitiser and endless quiet nights in. With Sandbrook’s speciality being modern history and Holland taking charge of all things ancient, the two perspectives mesh together to offer fascinating insights on both the past and the present. The pair grapple with big historical questions, such as what makes a figure ‘great’, while still finding plenty of time to amble down historical rabbit holes, including discussions of whether they would have fancied themselves as roundheads or royalists in another life.

Heading across the Atlantic, meanwhile, Grayson Perry’s (All 4) delves into the issues that continue to split US society. From documenting the