History of Persia

Literally unlistenable since the addition of all the ads. Which is too bad because it's a great podcast. I used to listen to it at night and fall asleep to it. Now the ads pop up mid-sentence without warning, which is intolerable even during waking hours. Please fix this, this is a great podcast, but I literally want to throw my phone across the room between that and the 20 or so minutes of ads at the beginning of each episode as well. What the heck Trevor??

I love the show, the research and writing is great. It’s great to hear about the Persian kings and lineage that is not just a side note of Greek history. I will however need therapy for the way the ads about therapy cut in. That said, as long as my phone is handy it’s easy to skip them as they are part of the show and not a secondary advertisement.

Having listened to Mike Duncan’s History of Rome and Robin Pierson’s History of Byzantium podcasts and loved both, I found myself wondering whether there was a podcast similarly covering Persian history. To my great delight, I immediately found Trevor Culley’s History of Persia and dove right in only to discover that this podcast is just as well researched and just as polished. Unlike most podcasts, which take a while to find their feet, HoP is clear, well-researched and polished from the very beginning! I’m only 13 episodes in, and so far loving it, so I’m very excited to dive into the nearly 100-episode back-catalogue. My one complaint is the way that the ads are spliced into the show. I get having ads, but it is a bit annoying when they cut in in the middle of a sentence. It can really disrupt the flow of the episode, and unless my hands are free to jump back and forth I find myself losing the point when this happens. That said, I’m otherwise a huge fan, and would History of Persia!

This a great podcast for ancient history buffs. If you’ve always wondered what went on in Persia while all those Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian historians were telling “Western” history, this is the podcast for you. It’s like Mike Duncan’s History of Rome, but for Persia.

Normally this would be a 5 star review, but the ads have made it nearly unlistenable, between the horrible changes in volume and the sudden cut in the middle of a sentence. I understand that ads are necessary for the podcast to grow, but there has to be a better way than to flood the entire podcast with ads, at this point it seems like I’m listening to primarily ads with a brief history podcast in between. As it stands I find it hard to continue listening, which is truly a shame because it is a captivating podcast and host.

Good narrative, but the ads are really annoying, especially almost 3 min block in the middle. I stopped listening because of them.