🎧 History's Greatest Speeches
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Simon Sebag Montefiore joined me on the podcast to talk about history's greatest speeches. From Martin Luther King Jr. to John Boyega, from Churchill to Trump, we also discuss British institutions and their link to Empire.
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🎧 History's Most Successful Slave Rev...
The Haitian Revolution caused a seismic shift in global politics. When a mixture of different groups on the French colony of Saint Domingue rose against the colonists, few expected the rebellion to succeed. However, under the leadership of Toussaint L'Ouverture, the Haitians became one of the few...
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🎧 Eco Farming
George Washington Carver is well known to Americans as the Peanut Man. It’s been written of him that ‘peanuts were like paintbrushes: They were tools to express his imagination’.
If that sounds a bit ridiculous, it’s because it is.
George Washington Carver was far more radical and innovativ...
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🎧 Hitler's British Traitors with Tim ...
Dan talks to Tim Tate about the uncomfortable history of the Nazi secret service's operations in the UK.
