Podcast Episodes

The Syrian civil war

Max Pearson introduces first-hand accounts of the 2013 chemical weapons attack in Syria and the opening of a refugee camp for Syrians fleeing the civ…

3 years, 7 months ago

Artists who made history

Max Pearson introduces the memories of people who knew Picasso, Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe; plus, how a collector in the Soviet Union managed t…

3 years, 7 months ago

The Marcos regime in the Philippines

Max Pearson introduces first-hand accounts of the rule of Ferdinand Marcos Senior in the 1970s and 80s; plus, Shanghai during World War Two, and the …

3 years, 7 months ago

The war in Transnistria

With speculation mounting that President Putin might mount an attack on Moldova, Max Pearson hears a first-hand account of the war in the 1990s betwe…

3 years, 7 months ago

Fighting for Uyghur rights in China

Max Pearson gets a first-hand account of how the minority Uyghur community in China staged some of the first protests against the all-powerful Commun…

3 years, 8 months ago

Algeria's War of Independence

Sixty years after Algeria's independence from France, first-hand accounts of a traumatic 'birth of a nation': a female Algerian bomber who was part o…

3 years, 8 months ago

The Falkands War

On the fortieth anniversary of the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands, Max Pearson hears two contrasting accounts of the war with Britain. Pa…

3 years, 9 months ago

Protesting against Putin

Starting in late 2011, tens of thousands of protestors took to the streets to try to stop what they saw as a power grab by Russian leader Vladimir Pu…

3 years, 9 months ago

Ukrainian history special

To mark the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a special edition on episodes from Ukrainian history.

In April 1986 a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nucl…

3 years, 9 months ago

Women who made history

To celebrate International Women's Day, a special edition on five women who've made their mark on history. US feminist Gloria Steinem remembers found…

3 years, 10 months ago