Origin Story
What are the real stories behind the most misunderstood and abused ideas in politics? From Conspiracy Theory to Woke to Centrism and beyond, Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey dig into the astonishing secret histories of concepts you thought you knew.
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1
The General Strike – The Revolution That Wasn’t
80 min
2
Introvert / Extrovert – In Two Minds
54 min
3
Stephen Miller – American Fascist
74 min
4
15-Minute Cities – How Urban Design Entered the...
61 min
5
Blue Labour: We Need to Talk About Maurice
85 min
6
Socialism: The Finale – What’s Left?
95 min
7
The Fall of the USSR – End Game
90 min
8
Che Guevara – Guerrilla in the Mist
88 min
9
The New Left – Part Two – Children of the Revol...
68 min
10
The New Left – Part One – Generation Next
60 min
11
Origin Story – Live at the Tabernacle, 13th Nov...
118 min
12
The Labour Party – Part Three – One Battle Afte...
89 min
13
The Labour Party – Part Two – War and Peace
92 min
14
The Labour Party – Part One – A Very British So...
87 min
15
Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin – Part Three – Terror
90 min
16
Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin – Part Two – Power
86 min
17
Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin – Part One – Revolution
86 min
18
Karl Marx – Part Two – The Father
78 min
19
Karl Marx – Part One – The Fighter
84 min
20
The Birth of Socialism – A Better World is Poss...
87 min
21
The British Chinese – Hidden generations
60 min
22
Rivers of Blood – How Enoch Powell poisoned Bri...
81 min
23
Shostakovich and Stalin – The Composer and the ...
51 min
24
ICE – How Trump built an American Gestapo
50 min
25
Martin Luther King Jr. – Part Two – Owning the ...
78 min