If you want a down-the-middle, solid accounting of a topic begging for bias, martyrmade has like 20 hours of content on the establishment of Israel and the Arab opposition. Forgive his first 20 or so dramatic minutes. It's excellent.
One of the best overviews I've heard of Ancient Greece from the Persian to Peloponnesian Wars was also one of the first I heard and I was hooked. It was a lecturer from Yale, recorded by The Teaching Company.
Also from TTC, Great Ideas of Philosophy gives solid bones upon which our Western intellectual tradition hangs.
If you dig Rome, Spotify has the free History of Rome, which is kinda meandering but you get what you pay for. Spotify's The Great Philosophers by Bryan Magee is a wonderful series of interviews. Wish there were more. Gibbon's Decline and Fall is freely available on audio, usually in some painful toffee nosed public school accent, which is a hoot.