Richard Overy, Professor of History, University of Exeter, is a world-renowned historian and an expert on the history of the Second World War, air warfare and the Hitler and Stalin dictatorships. He has won five prizes for his published work, including in 2005 the Wolfson prize for History. He is the author or Carlton's landmark Second World War Experience four part series in association with the Imperial War Museum and is a regular contributor to the Independent, Sunday Telegraph and Guardian.

The First Battle of Britain 1917-18; Air Defence in the 1930s; Fighter Command, 1940; The Luftwaffe, 1940; Dowding versus Goering; Hitler turns to Britain, July 1940; The Battle begins, July-August 1940; The Hurricane and the Spitfire; The Radar Chain; Adlertag, 13 August 1940; The Attack on the RAF August 1940; Lympne, 13 August 1940; Biggin Hill, 30 August 1940; Americans in Fighter Command; The Other Battle: German attacks from Norway; Churchill and the 'Few'; The Pilots; The Commanders: Park, Sperrle, Stumpff, Kesselring; Invasion alert, September 1940; The Bombing of London, 7 September 1940; Battle of Britain Day, 15 September 1940; Reporting the Battle; Defeat of Daylight Bombing; Big Wings September - October 1940; Sealion postponed, September 1940; The Night Blitz, 1940-1941; The Losses; Remembering the Battle.