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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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#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.
Transcribe →#32 The curious case of inventing Scottishness
Jan 700:35:30Tap to summarizeIn 1983 Professor Hugh Trevor Roper claimed that Scottishness had been invented. We enjoyably demolish Trevor Roper’s theory and reveal that the commercialisation of romantic Scottishness in the nineteenth century had far deeper and darker roots than the manufacture of tartan and romantic fiction. (R) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →#06 London fires were visible from France - Ep 6 Who really won the Battle of Britain?
Dec 3100:23:56Tap to summarizeWho won the Battle of Britain? For good strategic reasons Churchill claimed victory. But the Germans, who saw the eight months of the Blitz as part of the same campaign, achieved much of what they intended. (R) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →#117 The Rich man and Melania - Ep 5 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church
Nov 1200:36:18Tap to summarizeBy AD400 all it took to be bishop was to be stratospherically wealthy. There was no demand that bishops even knew their bible until AD787. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →#116 Chariot races in church - Ep 4 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church
Nov 500:40:29Tap to summarizeChariot races in church. How did we get there? 3rd Century climate change. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →#115 The Missing Women - Ep 3 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church
Oct 2900:38:52Tap to summarizeWhat happened to the women? Until the late second century committed, educated women and men who perhaps space in their own homes led informal house churches. But once church leadership became a paid, public role, they were taken by the men. This was not theology. It was the way of the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →#114 The Missing Link - Ep 2 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church
Oct 2200:31:34Tap to summarizeWhat real connection is there between the earliest, informal meetings of the first apostles and their friends, and the mighty, glitzy, authoritarian institution that mushroomed in the 4th Century, and especially after AD320? And is still here today. Is it possible that there is in reality, no direct connection at all? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →#113 Whatever happened to Saint Peter? - Ep 1 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church
Oct 1500:33:14Tap to summarizeThe Church says that Simon Peter was chosen by Jesus as the foundation of the Church. It says that Saint Peter was the first bishop of Rome and that there is a chain of direct continuity from Peter to the present pope Leo. It’s these direct links that gives the Church the right to tell its followers what to do and what to think. But is there any historical evidence? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →#16 The Men behind the Myth - Ep 7 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?
Oct 800:21:20Tap to summarizeWithin days of 28 October 1962 two journalists publish the official but untruthful White House account, as instructed and edited by the President. They also call-out a political enemy for daring to consider a humiliating missile swap with the Soviets. But we show how the Kennedys had already suggested this very missile swap to Khrushchev via private backchannels, on condition he kept it secret. Which he did. (R) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →#15 'The Fourteenth Day' - Ep 6 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?
Oct 100:30:14Tap to summarize28 October 1962: by holding his nerve Kennedy defuses the crisis in just 13 days. He says it’s over although he’s unable to verify whether Khrushchev ever withdraws his missiles or not. The last missiles do indeed leave Cuba on day 48 of the crisis but for very different reasons. (R) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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