Battle station: the celebrity podcast that explains modern warfare

Carey Mulligan on Syria, playwright James Graham on the Troubles ... the Imperial War Museums' new podcast brings celebrities and experts together to understand recent armed struggles

Comedian and author Deborah Frances-White is sitting at a table, in the shadow of a Spitfire which soars above her head. She is being interrogated on everything she knows about one of the most violent conflicts in recent decades. What comes to mind when she thinks of the Yugoslav wars? I think of words like Miloevi, Serbo-Croatia, Bosnia ... I think there's a star on the flag?" she flounders. I remember there was a Time magazine cover with a man at the end of the war."

Frances-White is in the hot seat because she is a guest on Conflict of Interest, a new podcast from the Imperial War Museums (IWM) - the Spitfire above her head is hung from the ceiling of its London museum's atrium, and her interrogator is Carl Warner, the IWM's head of narrative and curatorial.