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Experience the Cold War like never before with Cold War Conversations — an award-winning podcast recommended by The New York Times. Each week, host Ian Sanders brings you raw, firsthand accounts from the people who lived through one of history’s most tense and transformative eras — soldiers, spies, civilians, and more. These aren’t stories from textbooks. They’re unfiltered voices from the frontlines of history — emotional, gripping, and deeply human. This is Cold War history, told from the ...
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The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

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The Audio Long Read podcast is a selection of the Guardian’s long reads, giving you the opportunity to get on with your day while listening to some of the finest longform journalism the Guardian has to offer, including in-depth writing from around the world on current affairs, climate change, global warming, immigration, crime, business, the arts and much more. The podcast explores a range of subjects and news across business, global politics (including Trump, Israel, Palestine and Gaza), mo ...
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The John Batchelor Show is a hard news-analysis radio program on current events, world history, global politics and natural sciences. Based in New York City for two decades, the show has travelled widely to report, from the Middle East to the South Caucasus to the Arabian Peninsula and East Asia.
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Season One of ‘The Presidents & Prime Ministers brought to life all 55 of Britain's Prime Ministers through interviews with the authors of all 55 essays in Iain Dale’s book The Prime Ministers: Three Hundred Years of History. From the obscure 18th-century figures like the Earl of Shelburne and Henry Pelham to 20th-century titans like Churchill and Thatcher, these podcasts provide a much-needed reminder about their motivations, failures and achievements. Season Two, gives the same treatment t ...
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Kosovo is a small country in Southeastern Europe which was part of the former Yugoslavia. In the late 1990s Kosovo suffered a war between Serbian forces and rebel Albanian fighters who wanted an independent state. Since then the country has been rebuilding itself. This podcast investigates the current political climate in Kosovo in regards to women’s positions in politics and everyday life. The gender quota system in the government and its implementation are explored, as well as other aspect ...
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Soccernostalgia Talk Podcast

shahan petrossian and Paul Whittle

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This is Shahan Petrossian from Los Angeles and Paul Whittle from Shipley in England. We discuss Football (Soccer) History usually with another invited guest.Our topics vary from discussing old issues of World Soccer, interviews and specials on national teams and any related topic about the History of the game.
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In football, or soccer, there are rules for a ball out of play. That’s exactly where we’re taking you in this podcast series. Because every four years during the World Cup, it’s more than a simple story of goals scored and athletic displays. Sometimes, the really interesting part starts after the final whistle. We crossed the world to talk with journalists and passionate fans to bring you some of these stories that all have one thing in common: the World Cup. In the stories you’ll hear, some ...
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Guerrilla History

Guerrilla History

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Guerrilla History is the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global history for the activist left, and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. Your hosts are educators Henry Hakamaki and Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University. Follow us on social media! Our podcast can be found on twitter at https://twitter.com/guerrilla_pod, and can be supported on patreon at https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory. Your ...
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Breaking Britain is a podcast produced by the Europe's Borderlands Research Group at the European and International Studies Department in King's College London. Hosted by Russell Foster and Alex Clarkson, it will explore the pressures unravelling the unity of Britain and reopening the future of the island of Ireland in a European context. In each episode we will discuss the challenges reshaping a disunited kingdom as well as a wary republic with scholars and commentators who can provide expe ...
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Uncensory Podcast

Uncensory Podcast

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Welcome to Uncensory Podcast! Listen to the thoughts of three friends as they begin a sentence they aren't 100% sure how to end. It's a mess but it's a funny mess. Cover art photo provided by Alex Rodríguez Santibáñez on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@alexrds Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/uncensory-podcast/support
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HTO Football

HTO Football

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HTO - the podcast and platform for football debate and insight, chatting football in the media, on film and in the arts. We speak to a range of guests about all things football. From classic match day memories in the Premier League to Soccer around the globe, football finances and the state of the modern, global, game. We take a look at how football is debated in print, snapped on film and caught on camera. In the coming weeks we welcome incredible guests from across the globe - from coaches ...
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The French activist, novelist and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) is more popular than ever. In this podcast, we ask how her political commitments have shaped her writing as well as her public interventions: existentialism, Marxism, anti-colonialism and, finally feminism. This podcast, starting from Beauvoir’s social and political engagement, asks to what extent De Beauvoir provides important tools for diagnosing the present and offering a prognosis for the future. Her life and wo ...
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During the decade-long conflicts, the major powers dithered as Serb militias carried out their brutal campaigns of ethnic cleansing. Guardian reporters became more passionate and more outspoken in their condemnation, attracting praise and criticism By Ian Mayes. Read by Owen McDonnell. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/long…
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#Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus comment on the breakup of Yugoslavia in contrast to the breakup of Ukraine. Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @michalis_vlahos 1941 UKRAINEBy John Batchelor
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Preview: Author James Romm, "Plato and the Tyrant," explains why Plato traveled to all powerful and rich Syracuse to sit at the grotesquely indulgent Syracusean tables with the tyrant Dionysius the Elder. More later. 1869 PLATO SYMPOSIUMBy John Batchelor
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Preview: Colleague Peter Berkowitz of Hoover Institution comments on the requirement for the Trump administration to follow rules for Title VI enforcement on Harvard and other universities. More later. 1910.By John Batchelor
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Preview: Colleague Cleo Paskal reports from Micronesia in the Pacific that the PRC is building an airfield (former Imperial Japanese field) that represents a strategic position in the event of war 2027. More later. YAP 1899By John Batchelor
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#Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus comment on the peculiarities and plain hallucinatory ('Myth of Er") Plato. Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @michalis_vlahosBy John Batchelor
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#Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus debate the significance of the 1964 apocalyptic thriller, "Fail Safe," and why Kyiv may not understand the irony. Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @michalis_vlahos 1956 PEACEMAKER B-36By John Batchelor
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PLANTED A LONG-BEAKED WILLOW TREE TODAY, JOYFUL : 4/4: The Man Who Planted Trees: A Story of Lost Groves, the Science of Trees, and a Plan to Save the Planet, by Jim Robbins. https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Planted-Trees-Science/dp/0812981294/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Twenty years ago, David Milarch, a northern Michigan nurseryman…
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PLANTED A LONG-BEAKED WILLOW TREE TODAY, JOYFUL : 3/4: The Man Who Planted Trees: A Story of Lost Groves, the Science of Trees, and a Plan to Save the Planet, by Jim Robbins. https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Planted-Trees-Science/dp/0812981294/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Twenty years ago, David Milarch, a northern Michigan nurseryman…
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PLANTED A LONG-BEAKED WILLOW TREE TODAY, JOYFUL : 2/4: The Man Who Planted Trees: A Story of Lost Groves, the Science of Trees, and a Plan to Save the Planet, by Jim Robbins. https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Planted-Trees-Science/dp/0812981294/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Twenty years ago, David Milarch, a northern Michigan nurseryman…
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UKRAINE ESCALATES, RUSSIA COUNTER ESCALATES, NO KNOWN BOUNDARIES: 8/8: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Folly-History-Missile-Crisis/dp/0393540812/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning d…
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PLANTED A LONG-BEAKED WILLOW TREE TODAY, JOYFUL : 1/4: The Man Who Planted Trees: A Story of Lost Groves, the Science of Trees, and a Plan to Save the Planet, by Jim Robbins. https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Planted-Trees-Science/dp/0812981294/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Twenty years ago, David Milarch, a northern Michigan nurseryman…
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UKRAINE ESCALATES, RUSSIA COUNTER ESCALATES, NO KNOWN BOUNDARIES: 7/8: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Folly-History-Missile-Crisis/dp/0393540812/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning d…
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UKRAINE ESCALATES, RUSSIA COUNTER ESCALATES, NO KNOWN BOUNDARIES: 6/8: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Folly-History-Missile-Crisis/dp/0393540812/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning d…
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UKRAINE ESCALATES, RUSSIA COUNTER ESCALATES, NO KNOWN BOUNDARIES: 5/8: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Folly-History-Missile-Crisis/dp/0393540812/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning d…
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UKRAINE ESCALATES, RUSSIA COUNTER ESCALATES, NO KNOWN BOUNDARIES: 4/8: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Folly-History-Missile-Crisis/dp/0393540812/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning d…
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UKRAINE ESCALATES, RUSSIA COUNTER ESCALATES, NO KNOWN BOUNDARIES: 3/8: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Folly-History-Missile-Crisis/dp/0393540812/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning d…
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UKRAINE ESCALATES, RUSSIA COUNTER ESCALATES, NO KNOWN BOUNDARIES: 2/8: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Folly-History-Missile-Crisis/dp/0393540812/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning d…
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UKRAINE ESCALATES, RUSSIA COUNTER ESCALATES, NO KNOWN BOUNDARIES: 1/8: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Folly-History-Missile-Crisis/dp/0393540812/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning d…
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