Hello, folks, Dan Snow here. I am throwing a party to celebrate 10 years of Dan Snow's history hit.

I'd love for you to be there. Join me for a very special live recording of the podcast in London, in England on the 12th of September to celebrate the 10 years.

You can find out more about it and get tickets with the link in the show notes. Look forward to seeing you there.

Hello, everybody. Welcome to Dan Snow's history hit. I've got a story for you today,

a story about one of the most powerful battleships ever built and its destruction by the

Royal Navy in 1941.

The Bismarck was the single greatest threat to the Royal Navy and the Atlantic Convoy and,

therefore the supply for Britain's war effort in the world.

She had eight 15-inch guns.

Her armoured protection gave her the myth of unsinkability, if that is a word.

And in May 1941, the worst possible news reached the Admiralty in London. The Bismarck had

slipped to anchors. She was loose in the North Atlantic. This is the story of the Bismarck and its extraordinary culmination.

Angus Constam is a historian. He's just written Hunt the Bismarck, the pursuit of Germany's

most famous battleship. And now he's joining me on the podcast to give me a blow-by-blow account

of this miniature campaign. Absolutely extraordinary. one of the great stories. Check it out

here. You can also go to History Hit TV. If you go to History Hit TV, if you use the code

pod 6, POD6, you get History Hit TV, which is like Netflix for History. It's like a video

on demand channel just for history fans with hundreds of history documentaries. And you get all that

for free for six weeks. And check it out. You don't like it. You can always pull out. You're sorted.

So check it out for free. Watch my recent trip to Birmingham where I interviewed Carl Chin about

the real peekie blinds. I walked the streets. I went to the pubs. I sat in the police cells

where the peeky blinders

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