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  • #68 Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! - Ep 1 Bloody Mary Tudor?

    #68 Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! - Ep 1 Bloody Mary Tudor?
    2025/01/08
    Bloody Queen Mary? 313 people died for their beliefs 1555-58. We owe it to the victims to get the story right. In 2020 historian Alexander Samson said about the reign of Mary Tudor ‘it feels as if we are at the start.’ So dismiss everything you thought you knew and be prepared to be amazed. Ever since Mary died childless, at the age of just 42 in 1558, the history of her reign was written almost exclusively by English Protestant historians, mainly using Foxe’s ‘Book of Martyrs’ written by an Elizabethan Protestant. We look at why Foxe exclusively blames Mary and why he’s wrong. (R)

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    40 分
  • #32 The curious case of inventing Scottishness

    #32 The curious case of inventing Scottishness
    2024/12/31
    In 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)

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    36 分
  • #79 Santa Claus and the Knickerbockers

    #79 Santa Claus and the Knickerbockers
    2024/12/25
    A whole lot of nonsense has been written about the invention of the modern Christmas. It was thought up by Washington Irving or Charles Dickens or Prince Albert. We just can’t resist attaching a famous name to things, especially if the name belongs to a writer or a royal. We deserve better than this. (R)

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    29 分
  • #107 This is Armageddon - Ep 7 Lunatics take over the Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

    #107 This is Armageddon - Ep 7 Lunatics take over the Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
    2024/12/18
    We 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.

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    31 分
  • #106 Dark make-believe - Ep 6 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

    #106 Dark make-believe - Ep 6 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
    2024/12/11
    Unbelievable, 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.

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    29 分
  • #105 Smears, imprisonment, assassination - Ep 5 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

    #105 Smears, imprisonment, assassination - Ep 5 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
    2024/12/04
    Neoliberalism 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.

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    28 分
  • #104 Catch 22 - Ep 4 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

    #104 Catch 22 - Ep 4 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
    2024/11/27
    The 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.

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    31 分
  • #103 Disinformation didn't start with Donald Trump - Ep 3 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

    #103 Disinformation didn't start with Donald Trump - Ep 3 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
    2024/11/19
    We 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…

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    34 分