The Importance of History and A Unique Entrepreneurial Journey from Podcast to TV Network with Dan Snow, founder of HistoryHit TV (MDE399)

Minter Dialogue with Dan Snow MBE

Dan Snow is a historian, author, reputed oarsman, adventurer, Television presenter and entrepreneur, having founded and now successfully sold HistoryHit.

In this conversation, we discuss the journey that took Dan from the creation of the HistoryHit podcast to the HistoryHit TV network. We look at his experience and lessons learned along Dan’s entrepreneurial journey. We explore how history telling has changed, how’s it different on a TV versus a podcast, what content is working, how viewership has changed during the pandemic, and the importance and role of history in society.

Please send me your questions — as an audio file if you’d like — to [email protected] Otherwise, below, you’ll find the show notes and, of course, you are invited to comment. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to rate it here.

To connect with Dan Snow MBE:

• You can find Dan Snow on Twitter: @thehistoryguy

Site(s) mentioned:

• The Moth & the Mountain – via Penguin
• Michael Huskey and China

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Music credit: The jingle at the beginning of the show is courtesy of my friend, Pierre Journel, author of the Guitar Channel. And, the new sign-off music is “A Convinced Man,” a song I co-wrote and recorded with Stephanie Singer back in the late 1980s (please excuse the quality of the sound!).

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