On Armistice Sunday, Dan talks to Dan Todman about remembrance, and the ways in which we think about the events of the First World War.
The question of wars and how we remember them has always fascinated me. With WW1 we always seem to talk about the enormous, tragic loss of life - captured so beautifully by the likes of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. But WW2 seems to be more about stoicism, Spitfires and speeches. Lucy Noake...
Padraic Scanlan joined me on the podcast to talk about how Britain rose to global power on the backs of enslaved workers. Modern Britain has inherited the legacies and contradictions of a liberal empire built on slavery. Modern capitalism and liberalism emphasise 'freedom' - for individuals and f...
John Darwin joined me on the podcast to discuss how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world order.
