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From Creating History - the team behind Creating Churchill - comes a gripping new season of high-stakes diplomacy, backroom negotiations, and world-altering decisions.This is Summitry.Twelve episodes exploring pivotal meetings that shaped history.When Hitler met Chamberlain. When Kennedy clashed with Khrushchev. When Bush and Blair stood shoulder to shoulder. When Trump had a shouting match with Zelenskyy.History isn’t just written - it’s negotiated.Hosted by Russell Barnes and historian David Reynolds, Summitry takes you inside the rooms where power, pressure and politics collide. Each episode unpacks a defining diplomatic summit, revealing the human drama, strategic manoeuvring and lasting impacts of these encounters. Featuring expert analysis and rich historical context, this series pulls back the curtain on the meetings that changed the course of history.In an era of fractured alliances and shifting global power, understanding the past has never been more urgent. Because whe
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Signup to Generate a PitchFrom Creating History - the team behind Creating Churchill - comes a gripping new season of high-stakes diplomacy, backroom negotiations, and world-altering decisions. This is Summitry. Twelve episodes exploring pivotal meetings that shaped history. When Hitler met Chamberlain. When Kennedy clashed with Khrushchev. When Bush and Blair stood shoulder to shoulder. When Trump had a shouting match with Zelenskyy.
Creating History is hosted by ClearStory. The show has published 24 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Allied by War: STALIN ÜBER ALLIES" (27 October 2026, 39 minutes), "Allied by War: STALIN'S FIGHTBACK" (20 October 2026, 45 minutes), and "Allied by War: THE DICTATOR WHO MISREAD HITLER" (13 October 2026, 43 minutes).
Creating History publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 39 minutes across 24 episodes.
Booking probability for Creating History is 20%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Creating History requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Creating History's contact route on record: verified email.
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ClearStory hosts Creating History, a history podcast with 24 episodes published.
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Episode #4
By 1943, the Red Army has learned hard lessons. Soviet factories are producing weapons in vast numbers, Allied supplies help keep the army mobile, and Stalin is giving his commanders more freedom. Hitler’s armies are...
Episode #3
Hitler’s invasion brings the Soviet Union close to collapse. Stalin’s response mixes dogged defiance with appalling cruelty, but survival demands something else, something unfamiliar: listening to his generals. From the...
On 22nd June 1941, Hitler invades the Soviet Union. Stalin has dismissed repeated warnings. How did a man who saw enemies everywhere so disastrously misjudge the threat from Nazi Germany? In the first of three episodes...
Episode #1
How did leaders with such different ambitions hold their alliance together long enough to win the Second World War? In this opening episode of Allied by War, David Reynolds and Russell Barnes introduce the private...
Episode #12
<p >It's more than 100 days into Donald Trump’s second term as America’s 47th president and the world is holding its breath...</p> <p >In this conclusion to Creating History’s series on international summitry, we...
Episode #11
<p >International diplomacy has been upended since 2017. In the first of a double Creating History episode, we dissect Donald Trump’s unorthodox first-term foreign policy through the lens of historical analysis. How did...
Episode #10
<p >In this episode, we dissect one of the most consequential - and controversial - political partnerships of the 21st century: the alliance between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.S. President George W. Bush in...
Episode #9
<p >When history hinges on a handshake... Concluding our double episode on Reagan and Gorbachev’s high-stakes diplomatic dance, Creating History explores a series of summits in the late 1980s that defied the odds and...
Episode #8
<p>In the first of a double episode charting the end of the Cold War, we go behind the scenes of the dramatic 1985 Geneva Summit, where Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev - ideological archenemies - met and glimpsed...
Episode #7
<p >Thirteen days. Three leaders. One impossible goal.</p> <p >In 1978, Jimmy Carter corralled Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin at Camp David, demanding an end to 30 years of Middle East war. Tempers...
Episode #6
<p >In this episode of Creating History, we unravel the paradox of Richard Nixon’s 1972 summits in Beijing and Moscow, where his political cunning and outsider ambition inspired America’s most daring Cold War diplomacy...
Episode #5
<p >Step into the pressure cooker of Cold War diplomacy as we dissect the explosive 1961 Vienna Summit - a face-off between John F. Kennedy, America’s untested young president, and Nikita Khrushchev, the coarse and...
Episode #4
<p >In this episode: we dissect the Tehran and Yalta summits between the so-called 'Big Three' of Allied leaders in World War Two, American President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and...
Episode #3
<p>In this second episode dissecting the tense negotiations of September 1938, when Neville Chamberlain raced against time to prevent a war with Hitler's Germany over Czechoslovakia, historian David Reynolds and...
Episode #2
<p >Step into the high-stakes world of 1938, where peace in Europe hung on a series of summits between Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain, culminating in the notorious Munich Agreement of 30th September.</p> <p...
Episode #1
<p>In episode 1 of Summitry, producer Russell Barnes and historian David Reynolds explore the backstory of high-stakes diplomacy on the world stage, from the Field of the Cloth of Gold (1520)—where Henry VIII and...
Episode #11
<p >In the final episode of the series, published on the 150th anniversary of Winston Churchill's birth, David and Russell bring together the main themes of the podcast, discussing Churchill's positive and negative...
Episode #10
<p >In this episode, we come to the person who knew Winston Churchill better than any other, and for the longest time - his wife of 56 years, Clementine. Their marriage was a stormy but very successful double act...
Episode #9
<p >In this episode, we explore Winston Churchill's relationship with his political opponent Clement Attlee: Labour leader, wartime coalition colleague and eventually Churchill's successor as Prime Minister in 1945...
Episode #8
<p >In this episode: Winston Churchill’s spiky relationship with the Indian nationalist, Mohandas Gandhi - a relationship that shows up some of Churchill's blind spots and arguably puts him on the 'wrong side' of...
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