I've been listening to the podcast for about 8 episodes now, the quality is amazing, with some video, maps, paintings, pictures to accompany the podcast. It seems very well researched and It fits with what I've learnt from "The Inheritance of Rome" by Chris Wickham. My only concern is that it seems to put a huge emphasis on christianity as the center of the origins of europe, and at some times I feel as he vilifies Islam, calling it's expansion in southern europe an "infestation". It sounded to me as if he resented the expansion of Islam in north Africa, Syria and Turkey at the cost of the Roman empire and christianity. Am I reading too much into this?
I am of course not at expert on this matter, just an engineer trying to learn some history. I enjoy the podcast a lot and I am learning so much with each episode, I just don't want to learn a biased form of european history and would like to hear out some opinion from historians on this.
When I listened to Europe from its Origins, I detected something of what you describe. But, I think, not enough to call the podcast's overall quality into question. We all have our biases.
I think that it compares favorably to this Yale course which covers a slightly narrower time period. Europe from its Origins is more interesting and engaging, covers more ground, and draws more connections than a professor with an endowed chair at a highly respected university.
It's possible to find some faults in any historical work. But in my opinion Europe from its Origins is one of the best history podcasts out there.