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Autumn 1973 Ep 1: Chilean Coup
Turning Point in History: The Chilean coup and the end of anti-war activism. First of five essays on Autuman 1973 broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
11 years, 11 months ago
Suicide Watch
The Cost of History: the surge in suicides among veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4
12 years ago
WHAT IS A NATION? pt. 4 Germany
National History: Germans' constant attempt to answer the question "What is the German Nation?" has been one of the driving forces of history in the …
12 years, 1 month ago
WHAT IS A NATION? pt3 Bosnia-Herzegovina
National History: I have never witnessed the birth of a nation, but I have attended the death of one, Yugoslavia.
12 years, 1 month ago
WHAT IS A NATION? pt. 2 Kurdistan
National History: The story of the Kurds, the largest ethnic group in the world without a "nation-state" of their own.
12 years, 1 month ago
WHAT IS A NATION? pt 1 Northern Ireland
National History: When does a "tribe" become a "nation"? The case of Ulster's protestants or the Scotch-Irish as they are called in America
12 years, 1 month ago
WHAT IS A NATION? pt 5 From the ashes of Empires
National History: Europe - what is "the" nation? What is the "nation-state"?
12 years, 2 months ago
Faith Without God pt 2: Becoming Religions Anyway
Cultural History: Buddha, Confucius and the first Greek taught man was responsible for his own fate not the gods. But then something strange happened…
12 years, 3 months ago
Faith Without God, pt 1
Cultural History: Buddha, Confucius and the first Greek philosophers all lived at precisely the same time. They were the first to say that man, not G…
12 years, 3 months ago