Dan talks to video artist John Akomfrah about his new work, Mimesis, produced in association with 14-18Now, the arts organisation dedicated to the commemoration of the First World War. It explores the experience of Africans in World War I, and John tells about all the surprising things he learned while making the piece.
Dan chats to Mike Pavelec on the often-overlooked use of naval air power at Gallipoli during World War One in this minisode of the podcast.
Dan and Mike Pavelec talk about Air Power: it's short history and how it will shake the future up.
Rapper and intellectual Akala talks to Dan about the way historical narratives are created, maintained and then broken down. He discusses slavery and abolitionism, the need for Britain to do more to acknowledge its imperial history, and how his own experiences growing up were shaped by these narr...
