Dan Snow's History Hit · 2026-07-27 · 44 min · 7,606 words

The Blitz Beyond London

Listen to the original audio · Transcribed with NVIDIA Parakeet · Timestamps stay in sync with the live audio

Have you been enjoying my podcast and now want even more history? Sign up to history and watch the world's best history documentaries on subjects like how William Conquered England. What it was like to live in the Georgian era. And you can even hear the voice of Richard III. We got hundreds of hours of original documentaries, plus new releases every week. And there's always something more to discover. Sign up to join us in historic locations around the world and explore the past. Just visit history it dot com slash subscribe.

May the thirty first. Nineteen forty two high among the peaceful rolling hills of Kent. The quiet Midnight air begins to vibrate with a low, synchronized thrum.

The heavy, unrhythmic heartbeat of a Predatory Aerial Armada. Finally, out of the darkness emerges a swarm of Heinkel HE111 bombers. Glass nosed cockpits gleaming in the moonlight. Distinctive spade-shaped wings slicing through the clouds as they rumble over the sleeping countryside.

That is the first couple of minutes. The rest is 1 credit.

We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript (44 minutes, 7,606 words), segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.

10 free credits is 10 episodes like this one a month. Episodes nobody has transcribed yet cost their length in hours, because we have to actually transcribe them.