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Forgotten stories from history and how they shaped the way we live today.
Hear about the ordinary people from history and the extraordinary impact they’ve had on the present. Hosted by historians David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell, Journey Through Time will show how everyday actions have the most remarkable unintended consequences that ripple through time.
From the first woman to run for President to the unknown story of how the world came to the brink of nuclear war in 1983, this podcast is for everyone, not just history lovers.
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79. McCarthyism: Paving The Way For Trump (Ep 6)
How did the McCarthy-era blacklist impact Hollywood for many decades to come? What happened when McCarthy’s right-hand-man Roy Cohn met a cocky young real estate developer called Donald Trump? Are we still living under McCarthyism? How can
78. McCarthyism: The Fall of Joseph McCarthy (Ep 5)
What happened when Joseph McCarthy turned his communist-catching energy on the army? What film, directed by Elia Kazan and starring Marlon Brando, is viewed as an allegory for the McCarthy hearings? In what ways did the ‘Lavender scare’ sub
77. McCarthyism: The Crucible, High Noon, and Hollywood’s Revenge (Ep 4)
How did the most celebrated writers and directors in America take aim at McCarthyism in works such as High Noon and The Crucible? Why did Roy Cohn, the man who went on to be Donald Trump’s mentor, get involved in the trials? Despite both me
76. McCarthyism: Spies, Lies, And Smears (Ep 3)
Who is Joseph McCarthy, the young senator who gives his name to these trials? Had Communist agents really infiltrated the US Government? Who were the Rosenbergs, America's most notorious communist couple, executed for giving state secrets t
75. McCarthyism: Hollywood on Trial (Ep 2)
What happened when the House of Un-American Activities Committee started to prosecute some of the biggest names in Hollywood? Who were the infamous ‘Hollywood Ten’? Why did the trial of Alger Hiss, a State Department official, terrify the A
74. McCarthyism: How The Red Scare Gripped America (Ep 1)
What was the second Red Scare where government employees, creatives, and intellectuals were prosecuted for holding ‘un-American’ views? What are the 19th century origins of Trump’s catch phrase, ‘America First’? Who was Martin Dies, the man
73. Chernobyl: An Explosion That Brought Down A Superpower (Ep 6)
Did Chernobyl cause the collapse of the Soviet Union? How did the disaster fuel the fight for independence? What happened when war came to the Exclusion Zone after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022? How are the victims still being impacted by
72. Chernobyl: Soviet Secrets Are Still Coming Out (Ep 5)
Who were the bio-robots, the 3,000 young reservists drafted in to fight the radiation? Why was an absurdly inadequate, yet enormous, structure built at pace to contain the fallout? Could trust be restored between the US and the USSR after t
71. Chernobyl: Three Men Who Saved Europe (Ep 4)
What were the two "nightmare scenarios” that would have led to enormous damage in the weeks following the explosion? What happened when three heroic men waded into radioactive water to stop much of Europe becoming uninhabitable for centurie
70. Chernobyl: The Battle Against Nuclear Fallout (Ep 3)
Who were the doomed firefighters, first on the scene after the Chernobyl explosion? What forced the Soviets to come clean about the disaster? How did the USSR sacrifice Belarussian farmers to stop nuclear rain falling on Moscow? Why did thi
69. Chernobyl: The Countdown To Catastrophe (Ep 2)
Why was reactor four two years overdue a critical safety test? What happened in the seconds and minutes leading up to the explosion? Who was the first victim of the Chernobyl disaster? David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell recall the fateful e
68. Chernobyl: The Worst Nuclear Disaster In History (Ep 1)
How did a routine safety test turn into the worst nuclear disaster in history? How did Soviet secrecy, impossible targets, and corner-cutting set the stage for Chernobyl? Why did the disaster begin long before 1986, and end with the unravel
67. The Spanish Civil War: The Death of Democracy (Ep 6)
How did the Spanish Civil War inspire resistance movements throughout the 20th century? Why does Spain contain thousands of hidden mass graves? What is the legacy of the conflict in modern Spain? Why were American volunteers persecuted for
66. The Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Picasso and The Nazis (Ep 5)
How did Pablo Picasso capture the horror of aerial bombing? Why did Hitler use a small Spanish town to test the Blitzkrieg? What was Stalin’s role in the Spanish Civil War? David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell explore how Spain became a testi
65. The Spanish Civil War: Orwell V Stalin (Ep 4)
What were Barcelona’s ‘May Days’? How did Orwell manage to escape Stalinist agents? Why did communists and anarchists begin to fight each other? How did the Spanish Civil War inspire Animal Farm and 1984? Join David Olusoga and Sarah Church
64. The Spanish Civil War: A Nazi Training Ground (Ep 3)
What were Barcelona’s ‘May Days’? How did Orwell manage to escape Stalinist agents? Why did communists and anarchists begin to fight each other? How did the Spanish Civil War inspire Animal Farm and 1984? Join David Olusoga and Sarah Church
63. The Spanish Civil War: Fighting Fascism With Hemingway And Orwell (Ep 2)
Why did 35,000 foreign volunteers join the International Brigades? How did the conflict lead to the first racially integrated military unit in US history? What was women’s role in the conflict? How was modern conflict journalism pioneered i
62. The Spanish Civil War: A Nation In Flames (Ep 1)
What caused Spain to collapse into civil war in 1936? How did Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin become involved in the conflict? Why did western democracies do nothing to aid Spain’s government? What connected Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gelhorn,
61. A Christmas Carol: From Alastair Sim To The Muppets (Ep 3)
In what significant ways did the bestselling book ‘A Christmas Carol’ change Victorian behaviour around Christmas? From Christmas movies to the office Christmas party, what traditions do we have Charles Dickens to thank for? Why does this s
60. A Christmas Carol: The Radical Message Hidden In A Holiday Classic (Ep 2)
How did the three Ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future manage to save Scrooge, Tiny Time, and the Christmas spirit? What deadly social problem was Dickens looking to solve with A Christmas Carol? Who is actually on trial in the sto
59. A Christmas Carol: The Book That Brought Back Christmas (Ep 1)
Why had the Victorians stopped celebrating Christmas? How did the wretchedness of a London school for poor children inspire Charles Dickens’ famous Christmas tale? What does the story’s main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, tell us about the st
58. Black GIs: Brown Babies and Broken Hearts (Ep 5)
What does the hysteria around white women sleeping with Black GIs tell us about race and class in wartime Britain? Why were Black GIs banned from marrying their British sweethearts? What was the sad fate of many of the mixed raced babies le
57. Black GIs: American Mutiny On British Streets (Ep 4)
What happened when Black GIs went on strike over their violent treatment at the hands of the white Military Police? Why did the American Army start fighting itself in the heart of a British city? How did the Ministry of Information stop the
56. Black GIs: The Battle of Bamber Bridge (Ep 3)
How did an altercation over the wrong uniform lead into a full scale gun battle with Americans shooting their fellow soldiers on the streets of Bamber Bridge? What caused the Black GIs to mutiny? How did this violence forever change the US
55. Black GIs: We Ain’t No Slaves, This Is England (Ep 2)
How did the American army try to enforce segregation by stealth on British towns? Why did the British public perceive the white American GIs as ‘over paid, over fed, over sexed and over here’? How did Churchill respond to the growing tensio
54. Black GIs: When Jim Crow Came To Britain (Ep 1)
What happened when 1.5 million American GIs, including 130,000 African Americans, were stationed in the UK during WWII? How did the Jim Crow segregation laws work in the American army? What was surprising about how the Brits reacted when Am
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Forget what you think you know about reality. The Rest Is Science is a mind-bending new show from Goalhanger that tears down familiar ideas… time, randomness, beauty, it will reveal just how bizarre the world truly is. Join Professor Hannah
53. Harriet Tubman: The Woman Who Led An Army (Ep 4)
How did Harriet Tubman free over 750 enslaved people in the Combahee River Raid? Despite her valiant efforts in the Civil War, why did Harriet have to fight the government to have enough money to live on? What does her legacy say about the
52. Harriet Tubman: How Most Wanted Woman Never Got Caught (Ep 3)
What surprising tactics did Harriet use to avoid detection on her many missions to rescue enslaved people in the south? Who was John Brown, the fierce abolitionist willing to use violence to further his cause? Why was Harriet involved in th
51. Harriet Tubman: The Underground Railroad From Slavery To Freedom (Ep 2)
Why did Harriet Tubman risk her freedom and become the only formerly enslaved person to return to the slaveholding south? How did the secret Underground Railroad guide people north to freedom? Why did the entire country suddenly become slav
