Whether you’re investigating people in the public eye, exploring family secrets, or digging into the history of the UK itself, the past is littered with things that many would rather forget. In this session, the presenters of three of Radio 4’s most compelling history podcasts discuss how they navigate the most controversial and challenging of revelations that they’ve unearthed – in their reporting, in their storytelling, and in relation to their contributors.

Join Jenny Kleeman, presenter of The Gift – the series that tells the extraordinary stories of the lives turned upside down after taking a home DNA testing kit; Kavita Puri, whose multi award-winning series, 3 Million, tells the untold story of the Bengal Famine which killed 3 million people in India during the Second World War; Joe Dunthorne, whose podcast Half-Life unlocks the secrets of his own family history, investigating the dark past of his Great Grandfather, a German-Jewish chemist; and Mark Horgan, reporter and producer of Cover: Stakeknife, a podcast telling the story of one of the most-contested and darkest episodes of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.