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Is there any such podcast about history as well? That covers what happened so far since the beginning of time or whatever we know of.

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You could stitch together multiple. Mike Duncan's History of Rome is as thorough.

Stitching them together might be an interesting project in itself. As you get closer to the present day, and there's more material, they inevitably get more and more tightly focused. I'm imagining some kind of timeline/world map hybrid thing. Click a location, slide the timeline around, see podcast episodes that cover that time and place.

Tides of History S4 will get you as far as the Bronze Age. It's very up-to-date and very detailed. Best thing about (apart from the immediacy) is that it doesn't focus on one country or region.

It took over two years though - 122 episodes, most between 40 minutes and 1 hour.

S5, 48 episodes in so far, takes us into the iron age.

I really liked some episodes of Fall of Civilizations [0] and History of India by Kit Patrick [1].

[0]: https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com

[1]: https://historyofindiapodcast.libsyn.com

How much time have you got?

Not a podcast, but Durant's "The Story of Civilization" is available as audiobooks on Audible. It's something like 500 hours, but hey, a lot of stuff has happened.

It’s also over fifty years old and history as a science has developed a lot since then.

The books can be considered primary sources by now, as examples of history writing in the 1920s to the 1960s. I wouldn’t bother reading them to learn about the past anymore though.

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