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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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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.
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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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1Why 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
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
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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 left behind as a result of this encounter?
Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga tell the final chapter in the story of Black GIs in the UK.
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 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 British public from hearing about this violence?
Join David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell as they tell the story of the Park Street Riots, the forgotten American mutiny on the streets of Bristol.
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 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 army?
Listen to Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga as they tell the story of Americans firing on Americans in the village of Bamber Bridge.
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 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 tensions in British towns as a result of the ‘friendly invasion’?
David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell tell the story of when the American army brought racial segregation to the UK during World War Two.
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 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 America tried to export this segregation to the UK?
Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga look at the forgotten story behind the ‘friendly invasion’ in WWII.
Social Producers: Emma Jackson, Harry Balden
Assistant Producer: Alfie Rowe
Producer: Alice Horrell
Head of History: Dom Johnson
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
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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 Fry and science creator Michael Stevens (aka Vsauce) twice a week to explore big, small and surprising questions as they deep dive into theories, concepts, objects and thoughts and take us on a journey into the unexpected.
If you love digging into details that usually get skipped over, this is the show that proves reality is stranger than fiction.
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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 politics of today?
David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell look at the final chapter in Harriet’s extraordinary life.
Social Producers: Emma Jackson, Harry Balden
Producer: Alice Horrell
Head of History: Dom Johnson
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
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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 the Harpers’ Ferry raid, one of the causes of the Civil War?
Join Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga as they look at how Harriet Tubman brought so many people to safety.
Social Producers: Emma Jackson, Harry Balden
Producer: Alice Horrell
Head of History: Dom Johnson
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
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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 😀