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Experience the Cold War like never before with Cold War Conversations — an award-winning podcast recommended by The New York Times. Each week, host Ian Sanders brings you raw, firsthand accounts from the people who lived through one of history’s most tense and transformative eras — soldiers, spies, civilians, and more. These aren’t stories from textbooks. They’re unfiltered voices from the frontlines of history — emotional, gripping, and deeply human. This is Cold War history, told from the ...
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Legacy

Wondery

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From Wondery and Goalhanger Podcasts, Afua Hirsch and Peter Frankopan tell the wild stories of some of the most extraordinary men and women ever to have lived – and ask whether they have the rep they deserve. Should Nina Simone’s role in the civil rights movement be more celebrated than it is? When you find out what Picasso got up to in his studio, can you still admire his art? Was Napoleon a hero or a tyrant - or both? (And, while we’re at it, was he even short?) Legacy is the show that loo ...
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Empire

Goalhanger

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The rise and fall of empires, rulers, and the events that shaped world history. William Dalrymple and Anita Anand explore the intricate stories of revolutions, imperial wars, and the people who built and lost empires. From the British Empire to the Ottomans to Ancient India, history is shaped by power struggles and territorial conquests. How does it continue to affect the world today? Empire Club: Become a member of the Empire Club to receive early access to miniseries, ad-free listening, ea ...
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History That Doesn't Suck

Prof. Greg Jackson

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HTDS is a bi-weekly podcast, delivering a legit, seriously researched, hard-hitting survey of American history through entertaining stories. To keep up with History That Doesn’t Suck news, check us out htdspodcast.com or follow on Facebook and Instagram: @Historythatdoesntsuck; on Twitter/X: @HTDSpod. Become a premium member to support our work, receive ad-free episodes and bonus episodes.
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A biweekly history podcast covering the last great war. Join Ray Harris Jr as he explores World War Two in intimate detail. The History of WWII Podcast is produced and narrated by Ray Harris Jr. Ray has a degree in history from James Madison University. I’ve been obsessed with the events and people from WWII since I first learned of them. I’ve been waiting years for someone to do a podcast on WWII and couldn’t wait any longer.
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Witness History

BBC World Service

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Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by the past. We take you to the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there. For nine minutes every day, we take you back in time and all over the world, to examine wars, coups, scientific discoveries, cultural moments and much more. Recent episodes explore everything from the death of Adolf Hitler, the first spacewalk and the making of the movie Jaws, to celebrity tor ...
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The Bugle

The Bugle

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It's the trans-global satiricast that leaves no hot potato unbuttered. Andy Zaltzman breaks down the news with comedians from across the world including Alice Fraser, Hari Kondabolu, Chris Addison, John Oliver, Nish Kumar, Tiff Stevenson and Helen Zaltzman. Go to TheBuglePodcast.com to become a premium subscriber and get exclusive shows. Follow us on YouTube. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Real Dictators is the award-winning podcast that explores the hidden lives of history's tyrants. Hosted by Paul McGann, with contributions from eyewitnesses and expert historians. New episodes available a week early for Noiser+ subscribers. You'll also get ad-free listening, early access and exclusive content on shows across the Noiser podcast network. Click the subscription banner at the top of the feed to get started or head to noiser.com/subscriptions For advertising enquiries, email info ...
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Origin Story

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What are the real stories behind the most misunderstood and abused ideas in politics? From Conspiracy Theory to Woke to Centrism and beyond, Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey dig into the astonishing secret histories of concepts you thought you knew. Want to support us in making future seasons? There are now two ways you can help out: • Patreon – Get early episodes, live Zooms, merchandise and more from just £5 per month. • Apple Podcasts – Want everything in one place with one easy payment? Subsc ...
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Explaining History

Nick Shepley

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The Explaining History Podcast, created and hosted by Nick Shepley, offers a comprehensive exploration of 20th-century history through weekly episodes. For over a decade, this podcast has been providing students and history enthusiasts with in-depth analyses of key events, processes, and debates that shaped the modern world. The podcast covers a wide range of topics within 20th-century history, including: - Major historical events like World Wars I and II, The rise and fall of communism, fas ...
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Big Ideas

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Feed your mind. Be provoked. One big idea at a time. Your brain will love you for it. Grab your front row seat to the best live forums and festivals with Natasha Mitchell.
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Al Kein 5713

Rabbi Yaakov Wagner

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Mamar the Rebbe said on Purim 5713, during the infamous “doctor’s plot”; while saying the mamar it was later revealed that Stalin died relieving the grave danger facing the millions of Russian Jews.
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Solidarity & More

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Workers’ Liberty fights for socialist revolution, for the labour movement to militantly assert working class interests. Follow us! Find out more, and get involved at https://workersliberty.org • fb.me/workersliberty • twitter.com/workersliberty
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Join your host Bobito and co-hosts Keagan the Vegan, Mimz and Stalin as they discuss their journey from reckless youths into adulthood and the trials and tribulations of being a man in this day and age. Never a dull moment nor a topic shied away from. We hope you enjoy the show and thank you in advance for your support.
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Transurfing World

Dennis S Espín

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Reality transurfing is a concept on how to shift your reality and tune your life into your most desired dreams and goals. Written and preached by the Russian Quantum physicist Vadim Zeeland, the concept of transurfing is changing millions of lives around the world. In this podcast, we break down transurfing techniques and all the important concepts you should know to change your life forever. Host: Dennis Stalin Espín IG: dennistalinec *New episode every Thursday
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Interview show featuring non-fiction authors, historians, biographers and military writers — in-depth conversations with former Bloomberg and WSJ journalist Pimm Fox. Subjects include Vladimir Putin and the threats from Russia, the U.S. and the Immigration Act of 1924 and America's role in the world.
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This is a podcast about telling the stories of people you know of, like Stephen King, Ai Weiwei, and Al Capone, and it's also about the world around these people. Join us for an in depth, person to person look at how Genghis Khan and Joseph Stalin are connected through the people they knew, or listen to our episodes about individuals we have previously covered!
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Why the Flick?

Why the Flick?

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A movie podcast that asks the hard-hitting question, "Why the flick?" Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts and follow @whytheflick on Instagram, TikTok, and Letterboxd.
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Liberty Dies With Thunderous Applause is a history podcast obsessed with history's greatest dictators. The hosts have created a knockout competition to determine the single greatest dictator of all time. Each episode features a match-up of two dictators where the hosts discuss the life and times of each leader. The loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament and each winner remains in the contest to be named history's greatest dictator.
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https://thecommunists.org/2025/07/01/news/history/stalins-library-geoffrey-roberts-resume-book-review-pt3/Stalin’s library shows that his geopolitical outlook was global. As a Bolshevik internationalist he paid attention to revolutionary struggles all over the world. Contrary to the myths peddled by Khrushchev and Trotsky and repeated endlessly by …
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“Comrade Stalin, now that he is general secretary, has concentrated immense power in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of exercising this power with sufficient caution.” This is the story of Joseph Stalin’s path to becoming the dictator of the USSR. Ioseb (Joseph) Jughashvili, or little “Soso,” is a good student. A choi…
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Shukriya Khanum Akhundzade’s life is a story of love, loss, and unbreakable strength. As the wife of poet Ahmad Javad, she faced exile and imprisonment during the 1937 Stalinist repressions, refusing to renounce her husband even under immense pressure. She survived eight years in a labor camp using remarkable courage and ingenuity. After her releas…
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Welcome back to Origin Story. This bonus episode is something a bit different: a story about the power of music and the music of power. Tortured genius? Stalinist stooge? Undercover dissident? Perhaps no musician better represents the competing demands of art and politics than Dmitri Shostakovich, who died 50 years ago this week. He has been called…
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Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich was one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. But in 1936, Joseph Stalin attended a performance of Shostakovich's opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. The Soviet leader was unimpressed and left early. Days later, the state newspaper Pravda published a scathing review titled 'Muddle instead of music', castiga…
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Hello Buglers, we are back with a spectacular new Bugle next week. Until then let’s celebrate this most premier of autumnal months… with a look back at September from years gone by. And don't forget to get your tickets for our live show at the Leicester Square Theatre in October. Or your ticket to watch the live stream. Buy them here: https://www.t…
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In this episode of Explaining History, we explore how the 1970s became a turning point for Black Britain. Drawing on Eddie Chambers’ Roots and Culture, we examine how a new generation of Black British people embraced the politics of Pan-Africanism and Rastafari, forging cultural and political identities rooted in pride, resistance, and global solid…
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https://thecommunists.org/2025/05/01/news/is-britain-going-bust/Multinationals channel the overwhelming part of their profits through tax havens and countries with low taxation rates. The combined wealth of Britain’s 55 richest (known and listed) individuals increased by £35 million per day in 2024, thanks to their ability to extract wealth from th…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPQHz3OQnFcJoti Brar:Today I spoke with Garland Nixon about the crisis in the capitalist economies of the west and how their indebtedness and decline is making their war drive ever more urgent and desperate.We talked about how the war on Russia has backfired economically, politically, militarily and socially, and not…
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https://thecommunists.org/2025/08/01/news/nato-fails-ukraine-imperialist-problems-worsening/The west’s propaganda war is also coming unstuck as looming defeat creates dissension in the aggressors’ ranks. The imminent fall of Konstantinovka is likely to spark a chain reaction, leading inexorably to the complete liberation of Donetsk from Nato’s fasc…
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Barry Jones and Kerry O'Brien - Two titans of Australian political and social commentary share insights into how to think well, how to act well and how to make sense of politics, history, the fragility of civilisation, science and love. Presented at the Byron Writers Festival Speakers Barry JonesFormer science minister, Labor member of the Victoria…
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In September 1985, the wreck of the Titanic was discovered around 400 nautical miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, during a joint American-French expedition. It had remained undisturbed, 13,000 feet underwater in the North Atlantic Ocean, since it sank during its maiden voyage in 1912. The team spotted a boiler using a remotely controlled …
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Today on Your History Your Story, we’re joined by Samuel Marquis, acclaimed author of numerous American history and suspense books, including “Blackbeard: The Birth of America”. Samuel is here to talk about his latest work, “Captain Kidd: A True Story of Treasure and Betrayal”. While many people remember William Kidd as one of history’s most notori…
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Dave Plummer is a programmer, former Microsoft software engineer (Windows 95, NT, XP), creator of Task Manager, author of two books on autism, and host of the Dave’s Garage YouTube channel, where he shares stories from his career, insights on software development, and deep dives into technology. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: htt…
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Irina Nistor worked as a translator of TV programs in Romania under the Communist regime, and is known for secretly voicing over thousands of banned movie titles on VHS tapes smuggled in from the West in the four years between 1985 and the revolution. She was reckeoned to be the 2nd most famous voice in Romania after the Communist leader Nicolae Ce…
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https://thecommunists.org/2025/08/19/news/stalin-durham-miners-gala-dmc-afraid/Why is a picture of Stalin banned by ‘labour movement custodians’ while genocide-supporting Labour leaders are feted? The organising committee of the Durham miners’ gala have fallen a long way since the days when their predecessors were reporting back from the Stalin-era…
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In 1972, after leaving The Beatles, John Lennon and Yoko Ono performed in the United States at the One to One benefit concerts at Madison Square Garden, New York. They were helping to raise money for children with disabilities from Willowbrook State School, after a television exposé by journalist Geraldo Rivera showed the conditions and failings. I…
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They cook, make babies, and look impossibly perfect while doing it.Tradwives are using social media to redefine femininity and womanhood… or are they just setting it waaaayyy back? The Tradwives Club was recorded at the All About Women festival at Sydney Opera House. Speakers Megan Agnew — Senior Features Writer (New York), The Times of London Rosi…
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In 1948, filming began on a post-war thriller that would become one of the greatest British movies of all time. Directed by Sir Carol Reed, the film captured the atmosphere of a divided, ruined Vienna. But much of its lasting power lies with Orson Welles, whose magnetic, menacing turn as Harry Lime stole the show - despite his limited screen time a…
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In this episode, Will and Tom Swift discuss the history of America’s space exploration, with a focus on the Apollo program and its death at the hands of race communism. They discuss the minset behind the Space Age and Atomic Age, the spiritual reasons for its death, the practical consequences of that, and how we can bring it back. Find Tom on Subst…
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Why did France & Britain secretly collude with Israel against Egypt? What did America think was going on in Suez? Why did the Soviets think the US was behind an uprising in Hungary? William and Anita are joined once again by Alex Von Tunzelmann, author of Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, & The Crisis That Shook The World, to discuss the second chapte…
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Tony and Jeremy sit down with Alex Z (Southern Catholic Worker) to talk about John Brown and Co, their raid on Harper's Ferry, the aftermath, and the legacy of John Brown on politics and the Civil War. You can sign up at Patreon where you get access to early release episodes, study guides, the aforementioned bonus episodes, TheoryBeats, and MORE! Y…
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Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News Links: Texas Democrats went home New congressional map has passed On Nov 4th there will be a special election in CA to redistrict CA and add 5 dem seats to counter Texas Trump civil fraud penalty ove…
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Esther Freud’s first semi-autobiographical novel Hideous Kinky became a film starring Kate Winslet and told the wild story of two little girls living in Morocco with their bohemian mother. More than 30 years on, those girls are back and growing up fast in her sequel, My Sister and Other Lovers. Esther joins Big Ideas host Natasha Mitchell at the By…
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In May 1991, a female police officer shot and wounded a young immigrant from El Salvador in the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood in Washington DC in the United States. It sparked several days of disturbances in the largely Hispanic area, as the population vented its frustrations at years of feeling sidelined by city officials. Shops were burnt down, ca…
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https://thecommunists.org/2025/08/01/news/corbyn-project-2-what-could-go-wrong/As the imperialists ramp up their drive into WW3, the Corbynistas are back demanding we all fiddle while Rome burns.So far, working-class response to the proposed new party has been decidedly lacklustre, but a core of revisionist and Trotskyite activists are determined t…
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What Plato Can Teach Us About the Crises of the 21st Century — with Professor Angie Hobbs In this special episode of Explaining History, I’m joined by Professor Angie Hobbs to discuss her new book Why Plato Matters Now. Together we explore Plato’s life and thought, and the urgent relevance of his ideas in today’s world. From the dangers of oligarch…
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The hosts unravel the lives and legacies of Ferdinand Marcos of The Philippines and Suharto of Indonesia. The hosts discuss Marcos’ election, his declaration of martial law, embezzlement of billions of dollars, and of course, the extravagance of his wife Imelda Marcos. They also discuss Suharto’s military seizure of power, the widespread massacres …
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What happens when the harsh realities of our daily lives — death, war, illness, hardship — invade that most private of realms — our sleep? Four poets and writers explore how things show up in dreams that otherwise can't be expressed, and how they've used the subconscious to inspire their creative work. This conversation was recorded at the Addi Roa…
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In 2000, as the internet expanded, websites faced a growing challenge to stop spam bots from flooding their systems. To separate humans from machines, researchers at the United States’ Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, created the Completely Automated Public Turing test. From its early development to its evolution into reCAPTC…
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How did Britain and France almost start World War 3 in 1956? Who was Anthony Eden and why did he hate Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser? Why was the Suez Canal so vital to European oil supplies in the 1950s? Anita and William are joined by the brilliant Alex Von Tunzelmann, author of Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, & The Crisis That Shook The World…
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In this episode of Explaining History, we explore the fraught world of war reporting in Vietnam during the decade before full-scale U.S. involvement. Drawing on Philip Knightley’s classic study The First Casualty, we examine how embedded American correspondents were constrained by censorship, official manipulation, and the Pentagon’s control over i…
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With Donald Trump mediating conflicts in Europe and the Middle East, what has become of the United States' strategy in the Asia Pacific region? The event Asia Disrupted: Trump's First Six Months was recorded at La Trobe Asia on 1 August 2025. Speakers Daniel Flitton — Managing Editor, The Interpreter The Lowy Institute Dr Lupita Wijaya — Research f…
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