))
xxx
…
continue reading
Learn about our new AS and A-level Business specifications – on the go.
…
continue reading
Podcast by Steve Green
…
continue reading
The key materials for magnetic fields at A Level Physics
…
continue reading
This is GCSE AQA Biology Double Science I am in Year 11.
…
continue reading
Our sociology podcast series is an excellent resource for our market-leading AS and A-level Sociology qualifications.
…
continue reading
A Level Psychology topics from AQA. If you have a request for a topic leave a review with it in or DM on insta @zoeaarnison. Get revising!!
…
continue reading
This is GCSE AQA science which will help students who are doing there GCSE. Enjoy xx Cover art photo provided by Hans Reniers on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@hansreniers
…
continue reading
Podcast designed to make AQA history a breeze....
…
continue reading
Our new podcasts cover co-teaching AS and A-level students, resources to inspire learning, practical activities and preparing for assessment. We’ll release them over the next few weeks so make sure you’re signed up to our email updates so that you can be the first to hear when they’re online.
…
continue reading
GCSE science revision podcast for students studying AQA combined science.Topic by topic, Mrs Corbett tries to teach her husband GCSE science.
…
continue reading
These Really Good Revision podcasts help students prepare for their GCSE exams focusing on the AQA Geography course.
…
continue reading
Your revision guide for GCSE Product Design
…
continue reading
Revision podcasts for GCSE Geography. Designed for the AQA 'A' Syllabus.
…
continue reading
The Explaining History Podcast, created and hosted by Nick Shepley, offers a comprehensive exploration of 20th-century history through weekly episodes. For over a decade, this podcast has been providing students and history enthusiasts with in-depth analyses of key events, processes, and debates that shaped the modern world. The podcast covers a wide range of topics within 20th-century history, including: - Major historical events like World Wars I and II, The rise and fall of communism, fas ...
…
continue reading
This podcast will help you as a reminder of what you’ve been taught in GCSE courses. This is specific to AQA 9-1 Specifications and episodes will be released on Biology, Chemistry, Physics and some History.
…
continue reading
GCSE AQA English literature power and conflict
…
continue reading
This podcast looks at AQA A-Level Psychology and WJEC Level 3 Applied Certificate & Diploma in Criminology. This podcast will feature revision, lessons, syllabus content, admin, additional A* A Grade content and so much more!
…
continue reading
This is a podcast designed specifically to help with AQA GCSE History revision. On twitter @GCSEHistoryPod
…
continue reading
RevisionPod - English revision made easy.Follow us on Twitter @GRevisionpodEvery week, Mr Forster and Mr Gallie bring you a dose of high energy revision to help you achieve the best possible marks in your English GCSE's. Each episode will look at a different question from your set texts and explore how we would analyse the language and contextual factors and how you can then use this knowledge to boost your essay writing. Click on the bio of each episode to download your GCSE RevisionPod han ...
…
continue reading
Short podcasts to help you learn content for AQA GCSE science for Biology, Chemistry and Physics whether you're doing Separate or Combined Science. Don't forget to check out The Science Break on Youtube, @thesciencebreak on Insta and of course the website, thesciencebreak.com.
…
continue reading
Focusing on the Edexcel course for GCSE History (UK exams). These Really Good Revision podcasts are aimed at helping students prepare for their GCSE exams. Specialist topics include Richard and John (series 1), the American West (series 2), Weimar and Nazi Germany (coming soon), Medicine 1250-present (coming soon) and World War I medicine (coming soon). Also check out reallygoodrevision Geography with Mr Goodman for GCSE AQA Geography podcasts.
…
continue reading
The GCSE Business Studies Revision Podcast Series Unlock your potential in GCSE Business Studies with our engaging and accessible podcast series, designed to support learners of all abilities. Covering the entire GCSE Business Studies syllabus, these episodes help you master key concepts, deepen your understanding, and prepare for exam success. Whether you're pre-learning content to get ahead or revising after lessons, our podcasts provide the clarity and focus you need to excel. Each episod ...
…
continue reading
Welcome to https://historyrocks.co.uk. These podcasts are designed for those studying or teaching A level History. They are packed full of advice from experienced examiners! The contents are the opinion of the presenter and are not endorsed by any UK exam board. See website for details.
…
continue reading
The extent to which western soft power and legal and moral authority has been shredded by Gaza is lost upon British, American and European populations for the most part, but across the global south a new movement appears to be coalescing around South Africa and Columbia. In Europe, Ireland and Spain have joined with them and sixteen other global so…
…
continue reading
Warfare had to be re-propagandised in the 20th Century, particularly in the western world, as a moral crusade. Mass democracy determined that leaders needed to present war as a manichean struggle between freedom and tyranny. The end of the Tsarist regime and the intervention of a liberal American president in the First World War was an ideal opport…
…
continue reading
1
Maoist struggle sessions and the Cultural Revolution
23:51
23:51
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
23:51
This episode draws from the excellent book Red Memory by Tania Brannigan, an oral history of the Cultural Revolution. Here we examine the role of thought, how Mao sought to stimulate public thought during the Hundred Flowers Campaign of the late 1950s to seek out enemies and how struggle sessions were a form of thought torture, making ones own self…
…
continue reading
1
Folk music, modernity and revolutionary thought - The life of Violeta Parra
36:49
36:49
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
36:49
***PLEASE LISTEN TO THE END*** In this special episode of the podcast we here a personal update from our guest today Ericka Verba on the ongoing establishment of Trumpist fascism in LA, his use of ICE and the climate of fear. Join us as we welcome Ericka Verba, Director and Professor of Latin American Studies at California State University, Los Ang…
…
continue reading
Join us on The Explaining History Podcast as we welcome Dame Vikki Heywood, former Executive Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Court Theatre, to discuss her dazzling debut novel Miss Veal and Miss Ham. Set against the sleepy veneer of a 1951 Buckinghamshire village post office, this intimate tale reveals the hidden passions an…
…
continue reading
1
Edwardian Britain's most famous fraudster
36:33
36:33
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
36:33
Join us on The Explaining History Podcast as we sit down with historian and author Mark Bridgeman to unravel the extraordinary life—and daring deceptions—of Violet Charlesworth, Britain’s first notorious female fraudster. In his landmark new book, Nothing for Something, Bridgeman spent three years mining court records, witness statements, private a…
…
continue reading
At the end of the 20th Century, the Cold War which had defined the struggle between various different iterations of capitalism in the western world and the USSR in the east was replaced by a slow oligarchic coup. An equivalent class has come to power in both countries and has similar imperatives, to occupy the state and cannibalise society. This po…
…
continue reading
1
Trump's ICE brownshirts, an historical analysis
23:23
23:23
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
23:23
Nazism sought to bypass legal norms where it couldn't just sweep them aside. The German Weimar constitution took time to dismantle and new institutions, practices and laws needed to be created in order to subvert it. A similar process is underway in America at the moment and Trump's recent allocation of over $200 billion to ICE is a huge step towar…
…
continue reading
In this episode of Explaining History, we dive into the fascinating world of David Bowie’s 1960s—a decade of shifting cultural currents, personal reinvention, and the search for identity that would shape one of the most iconic artists of the 20th century. Drawing on Neil Stephenson’s insightful book David Bowie, we explore how the social upheavals …
…
continue reading
This episode explores part of the story of St John Philby, father to Kim and eventually advisor to King Ibn Saud. Philby was one of the few administrators that the British government and its colonial government in India could find who understood Arabia and Mesopotamia. In 1915 as British fortunes against the Ottoman Empire took a turn for the worst…
…
continue reading
1
Literary tastes, readers and book clubs in the inter war period
32:16
32:16
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
32:16
In the first decades of the 20th Century, a growth in literacy and the availability of paperback and hardback books created a culture of mass participation on literary reading that was unprecedented. Nicola Wilson's new book Recommended, a history of the Book Society, tells the story of Hugh Walpole, JB Priestley and Cecil Day Lewis amongst others …
…
continue reading
The project to permanently shrink the British state and to inflict mass hardship on the most vulnerable which was commenced after 2010 has cost untold numbers of lives. The last calculations put the dead at around 338,000 people but it is likely now to be far higher and Britain has exchanged one austerity government for another. Now the Labour Part…
…
continue reading
1
France: Collaboration and Occupation 1940-45
26:08
26:08
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
26:08
When France was defeated in 1940, across its empire it underwent a period of civil war as Vichy and Free French forces faced one another. Until at least 1943 there were widespread sympathies across France for the Vichy regime and antipathy towards the British and the Americans. This podcast episode explores the complexities of identity, loyalty and…
…
continue reading
1
America, oil shocks and the crisis of the 1970s
28:12
28:12
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
28:12
In this episode, we dive into the turbulent decade of the 1970s, exploring how the oil shocks and economic crises of the era shattered the postwar order in America. Drawing from historian Gary Gerstle’s influential work The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Era, we examine how stagflation, energy insecurity, and geopolitical tensions fueled public di…
…
continue reading
Liverpool's modern history is one of struggle, adversity and community and today we hear from David Swift, author of Scouse Republic: An alternative history of Liverpool. In the 1980s the city was in deep economic decline from its Victorian heyday as one of the world's busiest ports. Liverpool's radical identity was forged by the ideological battle…
…
continue reading
1
Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys - exploring the music and the melancholy of pop music's endless summer
32:50
32:50
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
32:50
This month Brian Wilson, one of the most gifted song writers and composers of the 20th Century passed away. In order to explore his work and the social and cultural context behind it, along with the meaning of the surfer sound of the early 1960s Toby Manning joins the podcast to talk about Pet Sounds, Smile, Surf's Up and more. *****STOP PRESS*****…
…
continue reading
Continued from yesterday's episode, we read again from Adam Hochschild's brilliant book Spain in Our Hearts, about the overwhelming odds faced by the International Brigades in Spain as they crossed the Ebro River in the Republic's last attempt to hold off the fascist generals and attract the support of the British and the French. The agreement at M…
…
continue reading
In 1938, the fascist generals who had launched their insurrection two years earlier had divided the country but had not been able to seize Madrid. The Republican government was running out of fuel, arms and options, and decided on one last roll of the dice. Juan Negrin and his government agreed to send their army, including the International Brigad…
…
continue reading
Here’s a polished episode description based on Michael Hudson's blog post: 🎙️ Episode Description: In this compelling episode, we dive into Michael Hudson’s incisive analysis of the escalating U.S.–Iran confrontation. Drawing from Hudson’s recent essay on Naked Capitalism, we uncover how America's strategic confrontation with Iran is deeply tied to…
…
continue reading
*****STOP PRESS***** I only ever talk about history on this podcast but I also have another life, yes, that of aspirant fantasy author and if that's your thing you can get a copy of my debut novel The Blood of Tharta, right here: What did the 2008 world financial crisis teach America's elite classes about the future of American capitalism? The coll…
…
continue reading
The economic realities of a failing war in the east accelerated the timetable for genocide at the highest levels of the Third Reich, but in July 1942 Heinrich Himmler also intended Auschwitz Birkenau to be a site for extracting slave labour from prisoners. He intended this because of the impeding economic and production crises that would engulf the…
…
continue reading
1
The demise of Britain's post war foreign policy
30:24
30:24
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
30:24
In the aftermath of the Second World War, as Britain's Empire faded away, British Prime Ministers had few choices than to take their lead from America. Following the disaster of the Suez invasion, Britain abandoned any pretence that it might have an independent foreign policy and operated as an arm of American power in the world until the present d…
…
continue reading
On October 6, 1978, Patricia Roisinblit — a young Jewish medical student and leftist activist — was abducted by Argentina’s military junta while eight months pregnant. She was never seen again. But her mother, Rosa, refused to let her story end there. In this deeply moving episode, we speak with journalist and author Haley Cohen Gilliland about her…
…
continue reading
1
African Americans and the Oscars, from Gone with the Wind to Black Lives Matter
34:20
34:20
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
34:20
In this episode, we hear from with award-winning author, journalist and broadcaster Ben Arogundade about his latest book, Hollywood Blackout. Drawing on a century of film history, Hollywood Blackout explores how the Academy Awards have both resisted and reflected changing social forces — from the Nazi invasion of Europe to the Civil Rights Movement…
…
continue reading
Arab regimes across the Middle East have had a long history of comparative disinterest towards the Palestinian cause and apathy towards their emancipation. Israel has found willing collaborators in Egypt, Syria and the Gulf states, all of whom are happy to collaborate in the unfolding war with Iran. *****STOP PRESS***** I only ever talk about histo…
…
continue reading
The neoconservatives were at the apex of their power and influence two decades ago but the project they longed for the most, war against Iran is now underway. This time, despite the changing rhetoric from Washington, the USA has so far committed no visible combat forces to the fight. Here we explore a developing situation and the role of neoconserv…
…
continue reading
1
Israel's attack on Iran - a historical context
28:38
28:38
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
28:38
In this urgent episode, we break down last night’s dramatic Israeli raid on Iran—Operation Rising Lion—which targeted Iran’s nuclear facilities and killed top Iranian military leaders in the largest attack since the Iran–Iraq War. We unpack what happened on the ground, the immediate fallout—including Iran’s launch of over 100 drones in retaliation—…
…
continue reading
What leads a nation into a civil war? In this podcast we examine the crises of power and contestation of authority that create wars within, not between nations. *****STOP PRESS***** I only ever talk about history on this podcast but I also have another life, yes, that of aspirant fantasy author and if that's your thing you can get a copy of my debu…
…
continue reading
Oral histories can be very revealing in understanding the beliefs and feelings that people had in particular historical moments. In Svetlana Alexeivich's amazing book Second Hand Time, hundreds of former Soviet citizens reflect on their hopes, fears and their anger at the fall of the nation and the society that they knew. This episode is particular…
…
continue reading
1
Colonial wealth transfers: A New Analysis
24:08
24:08
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
24:08
Question:What would have happened to Europe in the past two and a half centuries if it hadn't plundered the global south? What would have happened if Europeans had paid for the labour of Africans instead of stealing it? What would have happened if they had purchased cotton, tea, spices and other commodities at a price that reflected the labour used…
…
continue reading
1
Neoliberalism and the European Economic Community
25:28
25:28
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
25:28
The post war neoliberals were divided over the European Economic Community, some viewing it as a protected enclave of the world economy that would hold back the global economic integration they hoped for. Others saw it as the beginnings of a borderless economic zone that would spread around the world, eventually subsuming all questions of politics …
…
continue reading
1
Trump, Musk and the end of American Empire
29:51
29:51
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
29:51
All American presidents since 1945 have been managers of the USA's global economic empire, Trump notionally fulfils the same role but has little or no understanding of the complexities, challenges and limitations that his predecessors have had to navigate. As with all narcissists, he sees America's crises through the prism of his own personal exper…
…
continue reading
1
The Black American Experience in World War Two
25:24
25:24
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
25:24
During the Second World War the immense needs for labour and military manpower transformed American society and gave Black Americans an historic opportunity to advance themselves. This podcast explores the barriers they faced and the racial discrimination of segregated armies and workplaces, and the ironies of a military power based on racial discr…
…
continue reading
In the 1850s a medical revolution was beginning with the discovery of anaesthesia and a political and social revolution was still in its infancy in the guise of the embryonic suffrage movement that would emerge in earnest over a half a century later. In their latest novel together under the pen name Ambrose Parry, Christopher Brookmyre and Marisa H…
…
continue reading
1
Conflicted Loyalties: Minority voices in wartime Britain and America
24:12
24:12
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
24:12
What did Irish Americans make of Roosevelt's wartime pact with Churchill? What did Polish Americans make of his alliance with Stalin? In this podcast we explore the many complex, conflicted and often divided loyalties as a vast multi ethnic and global anti fascist coalition fought to defeat Nazism, Italian fascism and Japanese Imperialism. *****STO…
…
continue reading
Wokeness and anti wokeness are inventions of the political right on both sides of the Atlantic. They are confected ideas that are pushed by elite think tank, media and political groups and have been used in different ways since the era of the counter culture in the late 1960s. Their prime advocates claim that 'woke' is some manner of threat to eith…
…
continue reading
1
From F. Scott Fitzgerald to pulp detective novels - 1925 America's greatest literary year
33:33
33:33
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
33:33
A century ago, America was the literary and intellectual powerhouse of the world. Black writers defined the black experience in the Harlem Renaissance, F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the glamour and hypocrisy of the jazz age in The Great Gatsby and thousands of detective, western and sci fi pulp novels were published, creating the foundations of mode…
…
continue reading
1
Britain, France and the creation of Iraq 1919-21
25:52
25:52
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
25:52
When the mandate system was created at the Paris Peace Conference, it became a powerful tool for the British and French to carve up the Middle East and Africa following the defeat and collapse of the German and Ottoman Empires. France took control of Syria and created the state of Lebanon and the British gained Palestine, Transjordan and Iraq. This…
…
continue reading
In the late 1960s the British secret state, bankers, right wing newspaper and TV proprietors and other elite figures sought to remove Prime Minister Harold Wilson from power. They were indifferent to the fact that he had won two general elections in a row and thought that a government that included unelected business figures would save the nation f…
…
continue reading
From the late 1970s onwards China and the USSR were on two very different historical paths and three US presidents, Carter, Reagan and Bush sought to harness the potential of the world's most populous country as it rapidly became wealthier. China, often cited as having embraced capitalism after Mao, abandoned inward looking autarchy and opened its …
…
continue reading
Mao's ideas presented a clear challenge to western imperialism throughout the 20th Century and became a rallying cry to national liberation movements and anti imperialist groups wiithin western countries from the Baader Meinhof Gang to the Yippees. *****STOP PRESS***** I only ever talk about history on this podcast but I also have another life, yes…
…
continue reading
In the past two decades successive scandals have revealed that Britain has some of the worst media institutions in the developed world. The ability of ordinary people to interpret the news, use accurate information to hold politicians to account or to gain a coherent sense of the world has arguably never been weaker. In his new book Breaking: Break…
…
continue reading
Britain, France, Canada and other western governments have today issued a statement decrying the blockade of Gaza after nearly two years of offering unconditional support to Israel.This follows weeks of increasingly critical headlines in newspapers and magazines that are traditionally staunch supporters of the Zionist state. What does this suggest?…
…
continue reading
Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao are often overlooked but pivotal figures in recent Chinese history whose role in steering China through its extraordinary economic transformation in the 1990s and 2000s is overshadowed by Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. This is the first in a series of podcasts about these two figures and how they created the China now ruled…
…
continue reading
The character of Jim in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain was written as a condemnation of the Jim Crow regimes that were springing up across the South as the Reconstruction Era slowly came to an end. Twain's Jim was the first Black character in popular American literature that can be thought of as being written in depth and without …
…
continue reading
1
Melting Point: Russian Jews and the journey to Texas
30:41
30:41
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
30:41
In the decade before the First World War over ten thousand Russian Jews travelled across the Atlantic but instead of alighting in New York, where a large Jewish diaspora community was established, they came to Galveston, Texas. Galveston was not the final destination for most of the new arrivals, many travelled across the USA and settled in its rur…
…
continue reading
Margaret Thatcher sought to revive Britain's fortunes during the 1980s, she was a social conservative and a free market fundamentalist; a contradictory set of ideological positions. The liberation of market forces devastated the social structures that Thatcher claimed to uphold, principally the family, which underwent dramatic transformations throu…
…
continue reading
In a hundred years time will China offshore its manufacturing to poorer countries? Not if it has any sense. Today Trump's great retreat from the tariff war began in earnest as some cold economic realities have begun to bite, but what is the historical long view here? This episode explores how offshoring and America's weakening dollar supremacy, com…
…
continue reading
By the start of the blitz Britain didn't have enough anti aircraft guns, despite half a decade anticipating mass bombing as a means of war. Germany was ill prepared for the bombing of British cities as well, with its slow, light bomber lacking the speed or the payload to be able to devastate Britain in the way allied airforces would later destroy G…
…
continue reading
Some last-minute tips to help you guys with the final stretch of your revision. In this episode, we look at the main skills that turn grade four essays into grade six essays, and grade six essays into grade eight or nine. Best of luck! Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe Subcsribe to GCSE Englis…
…
continue reading
