Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
Debt, decline and post Prague Spring Eastern Europe 1969-1989
When the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies drove their tanks into Prague in 1968, crushing the nascent pro democracy movement led by Alexander …
4 years, 5 months ago
The Indian Army in the Middle East - 1940
In the summer of 1940 the British faced supply shortages in the Middle East and were vastly outnumbered by Italian forces in Libya. Archibald Wavell,…
4 years, 5 months ago
Hitler, the Luftwaffe and the 'England Problem' - 1940
In the summer of 1940, German successes in Europe had been based on a very particular model of interaction between air and ground forces. The planned…
4 years, 5 months ago
Grain seizures and famine during the Great Leap Forward
During the forced programme of industrialisation in the late 1950s in China, known as the Great Leap Forward, China's peasants came under intense pre…
4 years, 6 months ago
Harold Wilson and MI6 - 1963-76
Harold Wilson was the most successful Labour prime minister of the 20th Century, but was the subject of plots to remove him from power by the militar…
4 years, 6 months ago
De-Maoification 1976-1989
When Mao Zedong, China's 'great helmsman' died in 1976, the China that emerged after destructive reign began to be de-Maoified economically but also …
4 years, 6 months ago
The End by Ian Kershaw - Germany 1944-45
By 1944 it was clear that there was no future for the Third Reich, but unlike other regimes that have faced overwhelming odds, Germany fought on to t…
4 years, 7 months ago
Protest Music and Social Conflict in America (Part Two) 1967-70
By the late 1960s there were huge opportunities for Richard Nixon to capitalise on the growing discontent across America towards the counter culture.…
4 years, 7 months ago
Deng Xiaoping and Neoliberalism with Chinese Characteristics 1978
Following the disastrous chaos and violence of the cultural revolution, Deng Xiaoping, one of Maoist China's inveterate survivors and a hate figure f…
4 years, 7 months ago
Espionage and the American Communist Party 1945-47
The Republican Party and the right of the American liberal establishment colluded in the immediate post war years to wage war against the American le…
4 years, 7 months ago