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Inbox: Why Dictators Love the World Cup | Feat. Karim Zidan
Why does every dictator, sooner or later, want to host the World Cup?
What did a military junta that never wanted the tournament discover once the goa…
4 hours ago
Modern Travel | The Other Grand Tour | 2
Episode 167
What happened when the people written out of the Grand Tour wrote their own account of it?
What did an eighteenth-century Bengali diplomat see in Lond…
2 days, 4 hours ago
Inbox: The Secret Global History of Bruges
What's a garnet mined in Sri Lanka two and a half thousand years ago doing in a silver hairpin dug up near Bruges? Why are the Duke of Burgundy and t…
1 week ago
Modern Travel | The Original Gap Year | 1
Episode 166
What actually turned a teenage aristocrat into a "finished" gentleman in the 1700s? Why did one incredibly long, incredibly expensive holiday end up …
1 week, 2 days ago
Legacy Inbox: The Gold Britain Still Won't Return
What does it take to get a room of ex-military festival-goers in rural Wiltshire to agree Britain should return its stolen gold? And why does an obso…
2 weeks ago
World Cup | Migration and the New Asia | 7
Episode 165
What does it mean when the sons of empire become the heroes of the nation that once ruled them? Four years later, what happens when one of those same…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
World Cup | Big Business | 6
Episode 164
How does a country where football is a minority sport end up hosting — and cashing in on — the biggest World Cup in history? What happens when FIFA s…
3 weeks ago
World Cup | The End of the Cold War | 5
Episode 163
How does a country only three decades free of colonial rule end up humiliating the reigning world champions in the opening match? What happens when t…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Gary Lineker | Nation, Identity and the Beautiful Game | 2
Episode 162
What does it mean to cheer for the country that once colonised yours? Forty years on from the Hand of God, does one match still define how a nation s…
4 weeks ago
Gary Lineker | The Polictics Of The World Cup | 1
Episode 161
hould football and politics ever really be kept apart? What happens when the host nation is at war with one of the teams competing in its own tournam…
4 weeks, 2 days ago