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I can highly recommend History of Byzantium podcast by Robin Pierson.

"The History of Byzantium” is a podcast dedicated to the story of the Roman Empire from the collapse of the West in 476 to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Byzantine history is fascinating, world changing and largely forgotten. Listen and discover who they were."

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Thanks for the recommendation. I've been listening to Dan Carlin and his history podcasts and am almost done with all of them. I needed something to add to the queue.

You may want to consider checking out Mike Duncan's podcasts the History of Rome and Revolutions as well. History of Rome especially since it was the ending of that podcast at the fall of the west that encouraged the creation of the History of Byzantium podcast.

Duncan in particular gets much better at doing his podcast after a few dozen episodes. I'm pretty attuned to audio issues and almost dropped the podcast about halfway in, but eventually he figured a few things out and it got a lot nicer to listen to.

I've been listening to https://12byzantinerulers.com/ and it's very good, though the audio quality is a bit low.

I concur, and if you want the full story you'll want to start with Michael Duncan's The History of Rome Podcast:

http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/

Pierson describes in the first episode how he was inspired to pickup where Duncan left off at the fall of the western empire.

Forgot the link: https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/

Oh my goodness, he's at episode 150+ and he is only at 1000 AD! I thought Dan Carlin was thorough / long-winded, but this guy make Carlin look like a short summary!

A more common criticism of Carlin is that he is not thorough. That isn't a shot at him, usually (though a couple of the historians I know aren't big on his sources), but a lot of that is the format he's decided to go with--when you are limited to mere hours, you're going to necessarily be shallow about things.

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