Dec 21, 2016 | Free, Latest, Podcast, Recent |
Part four (!!!) of our “quick” biography on Fidel Castro, using the New York Times’ obituary, breaking it down, line by line, to uncover the propaganda. And we’re making these Castro episodes free to guests.This is absolutely the last part, we...
Dec 16, 2016 | Free, Latest, Podcast, Recent |
Part three (!!!) of our “quick” biography on Fidel Castro, using the New York Times’ obituary, breaking it down, line by line, to uncover the propaganda. And we’re making these Castro episodes free to guests. And yes – there is a part...
Dec 9, 2016 | Free, Latest, Podcast, Recent |
Part two of our “quick” biography on Fidel Castro, using the New York Times’ obituary, breaking it down, line by line, to uncover the propaganda. And we’re making these Castro episodes free to guests.
Dec 1, 2016 | Featured, Free, Latest, Podcast, Recent |
With the recent death of Fidel Castro, we decided to take a quick detour from our linear narrative to jump ahead in time and talk about one of the major figures, not only of the Cold War, but of the 20th century. A hero to many, reviled by just as many, his death...
Nov 25, 2016 | Latest, Premium, Recent |
Like he had before Tehran, FDR refused the idea of an Anglo-American bloc when he and Churchill met briefly in Malta before the conference.He’s trying hard to avoid putting Stalin on the defensive.Because he knows that in the game of wartime diplomacy, the...
Nov 18, 2016 | Latest, Premium, Recent |
We FINALLY start talking about day one of the Yalta conference, explaining the key cast of characters – and a lemon tree.
Nov 11, 2016 | Free, Latest, Premium, Recent |
Today we have another special guest – Pulitzer Prize-winning author, the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Professor of History in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences – Prof Fredrik...
Nov 4, 2016 | Latest, Podcast, Premium |
This is the third and final of our episodes about the Cambridge Five! This week – Donald Maclean. After being recruited at Cambridge, he started working for the Foreign Office assigned to the division that looked after the League of Nations. Over the next...
Oct 21, 2016 | Latest, Premium |
This is the second of our episodes about the Cambridge Five! This week – Guy Burgess. Where the others were highly self-controlled and shunned public scrutiny, he was wildly flamboyant, openly homosexual and often embroiled in scandal because of his...
Oct 14, 2016 | Free, Podcast, Premium |
This is the first of two episodes about the Cambridge Five! This week – Kim Philby, arguably the most effective spy in the history of spying. The man running British operations against the Russians in the early years of the Cold War was actually working for the...
