History Extra: Unlock the past

I am a history nerd and love reading the articles to relax before bed. The app however is buggy. It crashes often and takes a while to load. Would give 5 stars for an update on the app and bugs to be resolved. Otherwise there’s a ton of well written and thoughtful content on tons of things I thought I knew but had barely scratched the surface on.

BBC History Extra podcast is by far my favorite podcast. I would love to subscribe and listen to it. ad-free on the app, but I can’t seem to find a simple chronological list of all podcasts in the app. Everything is pre-categorized, there are giant pictures, so you have to scroll and scroll. This is particularly challenging in the car, where I do most of my podcast listening. I don’t mind that they have all that fancy-schmancy user interface, but somewhere, there needs to be just that simple chronological list for bingers like me who just want to listen to one right after the other, in the order that they were broadcast. As it stands, I will continue to listen on Spotify (and pay Spotify) and put up with the ads, because the interface is better. BBC History Extra does AMAZING history, but their skill level is kind of mediocre when it comes to podcast GUI in an iPhone.

Love the articles and topics and podcasts!

Very confusing and not easy to navigate to where you left off. My app just plays the same episode over again and does not automatically start the next episode. A timer to switch off automatically would be good.

I call it bite size history giving overviews in nice easy chunks. I love it. Not scholarly too deep but explains it all. Brilliant. The promotion price makes it pennies for vast knowledge fun

Been a subscriber to both history/ revealed digital editions for a couple of years now and they are very informative and educational for all ages, for me the app is great, having audio read along would be a welcome addition like in the bbc history and revealed apps. Can the website be made completely adfree for subscribers? . I’ve never tried the print editions before but I’m thinking about taking them out at some stage:)

I like the app, but I bought a print subscription, so should get free access to this - this element of the app/website is shambolic as it never recognises my subscription number which has been given to me by numerous staff members. I’ve had to start a trial and another phone call is needed to try and sort it out.

I’ve tried and tried to get access on line to the history revealed, history extra (which was advertised as being free worth £34.99), and access to all the podcasts. I’ve paid the subscription and spoken to the people in the phone. Still I get asked to subscribe or take a free month trial. I’ve no idea where to turn now to get this access.

Love that I can listen on the go without any adverts - always find them so annoying

Like others who have commented here, I have a print subscription, can access the web page but not the app. I’ve contacted support several times but only got one response which suggested I reload the app and change the password. This has been done but still no access. Frustrating.