Australia’s political leaders are planning beach holidays, time with family and stacks of books this summer, inundating The Australian Financial Review readers with their culture tips for the break ahead.

As well as locally made streaming hits Colin From Accounts and Bump, MPs will read a mix of memoirs, policy and page-turners. But there is one podcast that clearly obsesses the country’s decision-makers: The Rest is History, hosted by Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland.