Podcast Episodes

E66: Building workers’ strike w/ Ricky Tomlinson, part 2

Season 1 Episode 66

Part 2 of our double-podcast episode to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1972 building workers' strike. In this episode, we speak to two participants in the strike - Tony O'Brien and the actor…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

E65: Building workers’ strike w/ Ricky Tomlinson, part 1

Episode 65

Part 1 of our double-podcast episode to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1972 building workers' strike. In this episode, we speak to two participants in the strike - Tony O'Brien and the actor…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

E64: Mildred Fish-Harnack, part 2

Season 1 Episode 64

Concluding part of our double podcast episode about Mildred Fish-Harnack, the US-born woman at the centre of the underground resistance to Nazism in Berlin during World War II. In conversation with R…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

E63: Mildred Fish-Harnack, part 1

Season 1 Episode 63

First in a double podcast episode about Mildred Fish-Harnack, the US-born woman at the centre of the underground resistance to Nazism in Berlin during World War II. In conversation with Rebecca Donne…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

WCL E4: Michael Rosen's socialist fairy tales, part 2

Season 2 Episode 4

Part 2 of our double-episode in which we talk to acclaimed author, poet and Professor of Children’s Literature, Michael Rosen, about his anthology, Workers’ Tales: Socialist Fairy Tales, Fables, and …

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

WCL E3: Michael Rosen's socialist fairy tales, part 1

Season 2 Episode 3

A Working Class Literature podcast double-episode in which we talk to acclaimed author, poet and Professor of Children's Literature, Michael Rosen, about his anthology, Workers' Tales: Socialist Fair…

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

E62: League of Revolutionary Black Workers, part 2

Season 2

Second of a double podcast episode about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit in the late 60s/early 70s, in conversation with Herb Boyd, author of Black Detroit and former member of t…

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

E61: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers, part 1

Season 1 Episode 61

Double podcast episode about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit in the late 60s/early 70s, in conversation with Herb Boyd, author of Black Detroit and former member of the group, an…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

E60: The Bread Intifada, part 2

Season 2

Concluding part of our double podcast episode on the 1977 Bread Intifada in Egypt. We speak with journalist and revolutionary socialist, Hossam el-Hamalawy, about the uprising and its significance to…

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

E59: The Bread Intifada, part 1

Part 1 of our double episode on the 1977 Bread Intifada in Egypt, in which hundreds of thousands of working-class Egyptians rose up against the government’s termination of food subsidies. We speak to…

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago