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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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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’ subtext influence the investigations into Roy Cohn? What famous line brought down the reputation of this ‘red-scare’ fuelling demagogue?
Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga look at the Army-McCarthy hearings and the spectacularly public downfall of Joseph McCarthy.
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Social Producer: Emma Jackson
Assistant Producers: Alfie Rowe, Alfie Norris
Producer: Alice Horrell
Head of History: Dom Johnson
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
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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 men using homophobic language, why are there rumours about McCarthy and Cohn’s sexuality? What is the relevance of this for the trials?
Email: journeythroughtime@goalhanger.com
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Instagram: @JourneyThroughTimePod
Social Producer: Emma Jackson
Assistant Producers: Alfie Rowe, Alfie Norris
Producer: Alice Horrell
Head of History: Dom Johnson
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
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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 to the Soviet Union? Why were American academics forced into exile?
Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga introduce Joseph McCarthy and the loyalty purges that made him notorious.
Email: journeythroughtime@goalhanger.com
X: @ThroughTimePod
Blue Sky: @ThroughTimePod
Instagram: @JourneyThroughTimePod
Social Producer: Emma Jackson
Assistant Producers: Alfie Rowe, Alfie Norris
Producer: Alice Horrell
Head of History: Dom Johnson
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
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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 American public? How did a young Richard Nixon make his name during these trials?
Join David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell as they look at when the HUAC hearings came to Hollywood.
Email: journeythroughtime@goalhanger.com
X: @ThroughTimePod
Blue Sky: @ThroughTimePod
Instagram: @JourneyThroughTimePod
Social Producer: Emma Jackson
Assistant Producers: Alfie Rowe, Alfie Norris
Producer: Alice Horrell
Head of History: Dom Johnson
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
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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 responsible for setting up the ‘House of Unamerican Activities Committee’?
Join Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga for the first part of their series looking at the McCarthyism purges that gripped America in the 20th century.
Email: journeythroughtime@goalhanger.com
X: @ThroughTimePod
Blue Sky: @ThroughTimePod
Instagram: @JourneyThroughTimePod
Social Producer: Emma Jackson
Assistant Producers: Alfie Rowe, Alfie Norris
Producer: Alice Horrell
Head of History: Dom Johnson
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
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2Did 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 the violence?
Join David Olusgoa and Sarah Churchwell for the last episode in this Chernobyl series, looking at the legacy of the explosion.
Email: journeythroughtime@goalhanger.com
X: @ThroughTimePod
Blue Sky: @ThroughTimePod
Instagram: @JourneyThroughTimePod
Social Producer: Emma Jackson
Assistant Producers: Alfie Rowe, Alfie Norris
Producer: Alice Horrell
Head of History: Dom Johnson
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
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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 the latter lied about the explosion?
Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga look at how the nuclear fallout ate away at the very core of the Soviet Union.
Email: journeythroughtime@goalhanger.com
X: @ThroughTimePod
Blue Sky: @ThroughTimePod
Instagram: @JourneyThroughTimePod
Social Producer: Emma Jackson
Assistant Producers: Alfie Rowe, Alfie Norris
Producer: Alice Horrell
Head of History: Dom Johnson
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
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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 centuries? How did army reservists fight to contain the nuclear fallout in a mission named ‘The Battle of Chernobyl’?
David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell explore the terrifying consequences that the soviets narrowly avoided in the weeks following the explosion.
Email: journeythroughtime@goalhanger.com
X: @ThroughTimePod
Blue Sky: @ThroughTimePod
Instagram: @JourneyThroughTimePod
Social Producer: Emma Jackson
Assistant Producers: Alfie Rowe, Alfie Norris
Producer: Alice Horrell
Head of History: Dom Johnson
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
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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 this secret take 13 years to come out?
Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga look at the immediate aftermath of the Chernobyl meltdown.
Email: journeythroughtime@goalhanger.com
X: @ThroughTimePod
Blue Sky: @ThroughTimePod
Instagram: @JourneyThroughTimePod
Social Producer: Emma Jackson
Assistant Producers: Alfie Rowe, Alfie Norris
Producer: Alice Horrell
Head of History: Dom Johnson
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
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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 events leading up to the meltdown in reactor four on the night of the 26th April 1986.
Email: journeythroughtime@goalhanger.com
X: @ThroughTimePod
Blue Sky: @ThroughTimePod
Instagram: @JourneyThroughTimePod
Social Producer: Emma Jackson
Assistant Producers: Alfie Rowe, Alfie Norris
Producer: Alice Horrell
Head of History: Dom Johnson
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
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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 unravelling of the Soviet Union itself?
Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga trace the political and historical failures which led to the fateful Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Social Producer: Emma Jackson
Assistant Producers: Alfie Rowe, Alfie Norris
Producer: Alice Horrell
Head of History: Dom Johnson
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
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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 opposing fascism?
David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell explore the long legacy of the Spanish Civil War and the shadow it still casts.
Social Producer: Emma Jackson
Assistant Producers: Alfie Rowe, Alfie Norris
Producer: Alice Horrell
Head of History: Dom Johnson
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
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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 testing ground for the Second World War.
Social Producers: Emma Jackson
Assistant Producers: Alfie Rowe, Alfie Norris
Producer: Alice Horrell
Head of History: Dom Johnson
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
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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 Churchwell as they look at the harrowing events that inspired one of the twentieth century's most iconic writers.
Social Producers: Emma Jackson, Harry Balden
Assistant Producers: Alfie Rowe, Alfie Norris
Producer: Alice Horrell
Head of History: Dom Johnson
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
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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 Churchwell as they look at the harrowing events that inspired one of the twentieth century's most iconic writers.
Social Producers: Emma Jackson, Harry Balden
Assistant Producers: Alfie Rowe, Alfie Norris
Producer: Alice Horrell
Head of History: Dom Johnson
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
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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 in Spain?
David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell examine the role of foreign volunteers and journalists in the Spanish Civil War
Social Producers: Emma Jackson, Harry Balden
Assistant Producers: Alfie Rowe, Alfie Norris
Producer: Alice Horrell
Head of History: Dom Johnson
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
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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, George Orwell and Kim Philby to the war?
David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell explore the events that led to Spain’s 1936-1939 Civil War.
Social Producers: Emma Jackson, Harry Balden
Assistant Producers: Alfie Rowe, Alfie Norris
Producer: Alice Horrell
Head of History: Dom Johnson
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
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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 story still resonate in modern debates around poverty, responsibility, and compassion?
Join David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell exploring the enduring legacy of Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’.
Social Producers: Emma Jackson, Harry Balden
Assistant Producers: Alfie Rowe, Alfie Norris
Producer: Alice Horrell
Head of History: Dom Johnson
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
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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 story: Scrooge or the society that made him possible?
Join Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga as they look at the Ghost story that terrified Victorian Britain into helping the poor.
Social Producers: Emma Jackson, Harry Balden
Assistant Producers: Alfie Rowe, Alfie Norris
Producer: Alice Horrell
Head of History: Dom Johnson
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
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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 state of the UK?
Join David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell as they tell the story of how Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ changed Victorian Britain.
Social Producers: Emma Jackson, Harry Balden
Assistant Producers: Alfie Rowe, Alfie Norris
Producer: Alice Horrell
Head of History: Dom Johnson
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The point of taking stage names WAS partly to hide the actors' Jewish news, though; the studios were aware that the general public was anti-Semitic, and so a star couldn't have an obviously Jewish name. Stage names were also a matter of glamor, of course, but Jews and other "ethnic" actors were often whitewashed.
Indeed, the antipodes of the US is in the Indian Ocean, not China. But The China Syndrome isn't really a disaster movie; it's more of a political thriller, about the coverup of safety problems at a nuclear power plant due to cutting corners. The meltdown doesn't happen, although there are a couple of near misses, and the idea that it would burn through the earth is not taken seriously.
It is my impression that the editing of this podcast has improved. Recent episodes seem to be tighter and more focused than the early ones.
Daniel Day Lewis is Irish not British!
can't stand the manic laughing.
Why does she have to giggle at everything?
Y2K is not a good comparison to the symbolic power of 1666, because, while the number is in some sense arbitrary, Y2K was a very specific problem related to computer systems. And programmers did such a good job of fixing the problem that people now look back and wonder what the big deal was about and dismiss it as a tempest in a teapot.
The topics are often interesting, but I can't stand the presentation. I tried but I can't. I'm out but I wish you success.
Fetal Alcohol Disorder is caused by the alcohol consumption by the mother in gestation, not by alcoholic father.
Alcohol use in men can affect sperm quality and may lead to birth defects (AFIK this is still pretty speculative), but in any case, that's not fetal alcohol syndrome. FAS occurs due to the fetus being exposed to alcohol via the placenta during the pregnancy. So it's alcohol consumption by the mother that causes it. Woohull's first husband's alcoholism may have affected their son, but again, that's not FAS.
By the time Woodhull opened her brokerage, the state of New York had a "married women's property act" (passed in 1848) that would have given her control over her own money.
Sounds great, good luck 😀