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World Cup | The World of Dictators | 4
Episode 160
What happens when a World Cup final is played a few hundred metres from a torture centre? How does a newly independent nation humiliate the champions…
1 month ago
World Cup | The World Cup and the New World Order | 3
Episode 159
What turns a football team into a country's most powerful weapon? How does a game invented to entertain end up laundering the reputations of dictator…
1 month, 1 week ago
World Cup | Post Colonial World | 2
Episode 158
What happens when the nations that invented football start losing their grip on it? How does a team representing a country that doesn't officially ex…
1 month, 1 week ago
World Cup | Origins In Empire | 1
Episode 157
How did a game scribbled into rules by Victorian schoolboys end up watched by four billion people? Why do the countries that were colonised take such…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
1776 | America 250: What the Culture Says | 2
Episode 156
What does a country sing about when it can't agree on its own founding? Why has Hollywood, which will film literally anything, never made a great mov…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
1776 | The Legacy For Our Culture | 1
Episode 155
Why did African Americans spend a century celebrating the Fifth of July instead of the Fourth? Why did a sitting US president personally try to end a…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
1776 | The Women Washington Could Never Catch | 2
Episode 154
Who really built American freedom — and why does the answer make so many people so uncomfortable? What happens when an enslaved woman takes the Decla…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
1776 | The Founding Mothers | 1
Episode 153
The Declaration of Independence said all men are created equal. But what did that mean to the women who heard those words and knew they were being li…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Declaration of Independence | The Brand | 2
Episode 152
Who wrote "all men are created equal" — and then went home to more than 180 enslaved people? What does a document actually mean when it excludes wome…
2 months ago
Declaration of Independence | Follow The Money | 1
Episode 151
What if the Boston Tea Party had less to do with liberty and more to do with a smuggler protecting his profit margins? What if hurricanes tearing thr…
2 months ago