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This is my pick too.
Also, if you're into the history of Rome, give "The History of Rome" by Mike Duncan a listen. It's old, so the first few episodes are of a questionable audio quality. But he gets a new microphone pretty early on, and it gets easier to listen to. He talks about the entire history of Rome, starting with Romulus and Remus and going pasthrough the republic, then the empire and up to the 5th century. The episodes are nice and short, and mistakes are always rectified if need be one or two episodes later.
And once you've finished History of Rome, move right on to Mike Duncan's next podcast, Revolutions.
It's a similar format as HoR, except each 'season' follows a different historical revolution with the overall series roughly tracking large-scale wester political history from the 18th century to the early 20th century. He's covered the English Civil War, American Revolution, French Revolution, Haitian Revolution, Spanish-American Independence, July Revolution, 1848 Revolutions, Mexican Revolution, and Russian Revolution.
He then officially ended the podcast, but a couple of years later he restarted it with a fictional Martian Revolution set in the 24th century. Again, same format as above, but entirely fictional and heavily informed by his study of various world revolution. This is currently ongoing with 6ish episodes left.
He's also said that once the Martian Revolution is done he plans on starting back up with the historical revolutions, picking right back up after the Russian Revolution.