History Cafe

By: Jon Rosebank Penelope Middelboe
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  • True history storytelling at the History Café. Join BBC Historian Jon Rosebank & HBO, BBC & C4 script and series editor Penelope Middelboe as we give history a new take. Drop in to the History Café weekly on Wednesdays to give old stories a refreshing new brew. 90+ ever-green stand-alone episodes and building...

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  • #79 Santa Claus and the Knickerbockers

    #79 Santa Claus and the Knickerbockers
    Dec 25 2024
    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 mins
  • #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
    Dec 18 2024
    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 mins
  • #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
    Dec 11 2024
    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 mins

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