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History Cafe
Hosted by Jon Rosebank, Penelope Middelboe · EN
True history storytelling at the History Café. Join BBC Historian Jon Rosebank & HBO, BBC & C4 script and series editor Penelope Middelboe as we give history a new take. Drop in to the History Café weekly on Wednesdays to give old stories a refreshing new brew. 90+ ever-green stand-alone episodes and building...
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#94 'Political gangsterdom' - Ep 4 What Wars? What Roses?
Mar 1800:35:17Tap to summarizeBy the time Henry VI finally lost the last bit of England's French Empire in 1453 he could no longer go to war in France to occupy and enrich his nobility. This small, interrelated and bickering group, cooped up in England with an agricultural depression settling in, now resorted to what the historian Michael Postan long ago (in 1939) famously called ‘political gangsterdom.’ (R) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →#93 'A plague on both your houses' - Ep 2 What Wars? What Roses?
Mar 1100:31:21Tap to summarizeWhy was the 15th century in England and Wales so violent? It certainly wasn’t York v Lancaster, white-rose v red-rose rivalry. Monarchs were useless but that’s not unique to the 15th century. So what was it that defined this period? It has everything to do with the plague… (R) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →#92 'Welcome traitor!' - Ep 1 What Wars? What Roses?
Mar 400:28:01Tap to summarizeWhy do we know so little about medieval history? About England and Wales in the fifteenth century? The Wars of the Roses (Lancaster v York) lasted 4 months not the traditional 85 years. Even the roses were (mostly) inventions. And was it even medieval? The execution of the King’s chief minister as a traitor in 1450, by sailors dissatisfied with an ineffective king, was shocking. It revealed that the common people believed the true crown was the community. You can’t get more modern than that. (R) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →#107 This is Armageddon - Ep 7 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum - Neoliberalism uncut
Feb 2500:30:47Tap to summarizeWe present the final, damming evidence that the neoliberal case for freedom from all government regulation was always a dangerous deceit. It was always intended to make us prisoners of the unaccountable rich, as we are today. This is not liberty. It is not even the twilight of sovereignty. This is Armageddon. (R) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →#106 Dark make-believe - Ep 6 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum - Neoliberalism uncut
Feb 1800:29:01Tap to summarizeUnbelievable, sinister. Milton Friedman advises apartheid South Africa that neoliberal free-market economics can solve the problems of the Soweto riots, in the same way it delivered a ‘miracle’ of liberty under the brutal dictatorship of General Pinochet in Chile. (R) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →#105 Smears, imprisonment, assassination - Ep 5 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum - Neoliberalism uncut
Feb 1100:27:39Tap to summarizeNeoliberalism was welcomed, finally, as a way to tackle what seemed to be a breakdown in American society in the late 1960s. Big business and FBI under J Edgar Hoover felt threatened by Keynsian consensus on welfare and the eradication of poverty. They had plenty to gain by provoking the extremism, and clearing the way for Milton Friedman. (R) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →#104 Catch 22 - Ep 4 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
Feb 400:30:45Tap to summarizeThe breakdown of American post-war consensus in the 60s calls for desperate measures on all sides: a government war in Vietnam, inner-city rioting, sex, drugs and rock and roll. Alarmed, US businesses seek salvation from the previously dismissed economic theory of neoliberal free-market capitalism. (R) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →#103 Disinformation didn't start with Donald Trump - Ep 3 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
Jan 2800:34:28Tap to summarizeWe look at the roots of free market Neoliberalism and discover that big business in the US has been championing freedom from regulation since 1895, even claiming in 1923 that the anti-child labour movement in America was secretly being run from Moscow… (R) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →#102 'The cuckoo in the Nobel nest' - Ep 2 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
Jan 2100:31:11Tap to summarizeHow did less welfare, less government regulation of business (aka neoliberalism free market) become a global ‘fashion’ without any evidence of its benefits? Something to do with an imposter ‘Nobel’ prize and a PBS TV series funded by American big business? (R) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →#101 'everything absolutely maxed out' - Ep 1 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
Jan 1400:32:52Tap to summarizeCivil liberty is different from individual liberty. Philosophers have known this since at least the 17th Century. We explore the two fundamental fallacies of neoliberalism to show why neoliberal economics can only bring prosperity to the few, and is incapable of predicting financial crashes. Today in the USA those damaged by neoliberalism have been driven to elect an unhinged criminal... (R) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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