We Didn't Start the Fire: The History Podcast
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We Didn't Start the Fire: The History Podcast
This brand new pop culture history podcast is nothing like anything you've heard before, and it's everything you need to understand the modern world. Katie Puckrik and Tom Fordyce, an American pop culture buff and a British music lover, have taken the smash-hit song by Billy Joel and turned it into...
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What is Artificial Intelligence? | Introducing SystemShift
Do you love We Didn't Start The Fire? Then you'll love this new podcast.
Perfect for question-askers and curious minds, welcome to Syste...
BEATLEMANIA: First-Hand Experiences Presented by Something About The Beatles
My guests are three very special ladies whom have all appeared on the show before, but this time, all three have memoirs out. Debbie Gendler was the f...
ELVIS PRESLEY: His Last Moments Presented by History Shorts
Please enjoy this bonus episode from the History Shorts podcast!
Who has not heard at least one of Elvis Presley’s songs or knows exactly who th...
CHARLES DE GAULLE: Interview with Pierre Azou on The French History Podcast
Please enjoy this bonus episode from The French History Podcast!
Is it better to be a hero or great? What is the difference? What makes someone...
JFK: The Kennedy Assassination
Please enjoy this bonus episode which is the series premier of Countdown to Dallas, a new show from Evergreen Podcasts. In this episode we recap the b...
The Finale: Rock 'n' Roller Cola Wars
The time has finally come... we’ve made it to the end of the song. This episode description is being written on a tearstained laptop as we speak. But...
China's Under Martial Law
It’s the penultimate episode, and Billy’s taken us back to China to talk about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, and the massacre that followed. In...
Hypodermics on the Shore
When you head to the beach, you expect to find some leftover sandcastles and nasty sunburns - not a tide of used syringes. But that’s what was found o...
Bernie Goetz
Ordinary guy turned vigilante icon, Bernie Goetz shook a crime-riddled New York City in 1984, after he shot 4 black teenagers on the subway. It create...
Crack
Ruben Castaneda is a born storyteller and he's got an extraordinary story to tell. Ruben was The Washington Post's crime reporter in the early 90s whe...
AIDS
In the 1980s, the world was gripped by a virus that was killing people in their thousands; savaging communities and creating a climate of fear, blame...
Homeless Vets
Homelessness has always been present in America: you've probably seen it in movies and TV, from jovial Charlie Chaplin comedies, to traumatised Forres...
Foreign Debt
We’ve hit the 80s and Reagan’s low tax and defence spending have contributed to the America’s worst foreign debt in history. It turns out the US has c...
Heavy Metal Suicide
!sretratseriF kcab emocleW... What's that funny sentence? A secret hidden message of course! Because this week we're getting into the weeds of heavy m...
Sally Ride
RIDE SALLY RIDE! We can’t believe it’s true, but Sally Ride is the birth name of the woman who’d later to become the First American woman to orbit spa...
Wheel of Fortune
It's the game that's spun its way into the hearts of millions: today we're taking a wild ride through the history of the ICONIC game show, Wheel of Fo...
Russians in Afghanistan
In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan to support the rise of communism in the country, beginning a series of constant conflict that Afghanista...
Ayatollahs in Iran
In 1979, Iran’s pro-Western Shah was overthrown by Ayatollah Khomeini, ushering in the Iranian Revolution and Iran’s shift to an Islamic Republic. But...
Terror on the Airline
Listeners, strap yourselves in. The late 20th century was an era of glamorous air travel, where you could saunter right through to the plane and buy y...
Palestine
Why Billy chose to encapsulate this behemoth of a topic in a single lyric, we'll never know. But this week, we're talking Palestine and all it experie...
Reagan
Ronnie was one of America's most beloved and controversial presidents. From his early days as a B-movie actor and union president, to his pivotal role...
Begin
Menachem Begin was the sixth Prime Minister of Israel, and a signal of the state’s growing disillusionment. Since its founding, it had been run by soc...
Punk Rock
Fluffies and spikies, get ready to ROCK! It's the music scene that shook (and scared) the 70s, and could've ended Billy's career... this week we're ta...
Introducing... Jam Tomorrow
Our friends at Podmasters have a new podcast you’re going to love: Jam Tomorrow.
How did Britain’s dreams of a new postwar world go unful...
Watergate with Kurt Andersen
By the 1970s, Richard Nixon's paranoia has reached new heights. He's become consumed with wiretapping, secret recording devices and surveillances, and...
Woodstock
Watch out for that brown acid - it’s WOODSTOCK time baby!! We’ve always wished we were alive for Woodstock (and not the ’94 one that Katie worked at…)...
Moonshot
It's episode 100, LET'S GO TO THE MOON! The 1969 Apollo 11 landing was iconic, but what happened to the earlier missions? What kind of impact did it h...
Richard Nixon Back Again
Tricky Dicky’s back! He quite the comeback kid…It’s 1969, a slew of assassinations have recently hit the country, anti-war protests are taking over co...
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh is a man of many mysteries and many names (including the Kissing President…). But to most, he’s the man who midwifed a nation and kicked o...
Introducing... The Secret History of the Estonia
Here’s another podcast we think you’ll enjoy. It’s a tale of secrets, smugglers, spies, and how 852 people died on a ferry. From the team behind The S...
Birth Control
The free love of the 1960s was a crucial step in the world becoming more sex positive, but would any of it have happened without the invention of The...
JFK Blown Away (what else do I have to say?!)
The assassination of John F Kennedy was one of the most significant events of the 20th Century. The young president who was supposed to change America...
British Politician Sex
In the 1960s, a sordid sex scandal rocked the British press. What appeared to be a shallow affair between Conservative MP John Profumo and teenage cal...
Malcolm X
Malcolm X is a civil rights revolutionary. He’s not playing the establishment’s game. He’s not keeping the peace and hoping if he’s a good enough Blac...
Pope Paul
Pope Paul VI was in charge of the Catholic Church in a tumultuous time. Communists are locking up Catholic priests, the Vietnam War is raging on, and...
Liston beats Patterson
Liston vs Patterson is a boxing match to remember. It's an easy win for Liston and his 14 inch fists and he's extraordinary to watch. So why are the c...
John Glenn with Dr Kevin Fong
In 1962, the US is scrambling to catch up with the USSR in the Space Race and it's finally time for an American to orbit the Earth. John Glenn is the...
Ole Miss
In 1962, a riot broke out in the University of Mississippi after African American student, James Meredith is enrolled. It essentially becomes the last...
British Beatlemania with Mark Lewisohn (Part II)
We told you we'd be back for more baby! We couldn't condense all of the Fab Four's urine filled success to one episode, so welcome to Part 2 of our bu...
British Beatlemania with Mark Lewisohn (Part I)
YEAH YEAH YEAH, we’ve been waiting 88 episode for this and it’s finally here!! In the 60s, The Beatles’ rise to fame would change the landscape of pop...