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
Partition – Part One – Before Midnight
71 min
2
Thatcherism – Part Two – Imperial phase
88 min
3
Thatcherism – Part One – Birth of a Notion
86 min
4
Kemi Badenoch – Identity crisis
68 min
5
The Myth of Cultural Marxism – Anatomy of a con...
55 min
6
Doctor Who – The Regeneration Game
57 min
7
Trump’s inauguration: Can we call it fascism ye...
36 min
8
Elon Musk and the Death of Twitter
55 min
9
The Daily Mail – Part two – Paper Tigers
72 min
10
The Daily Mail – Part one – Barons and Blackshirts
51 min
11
The BBC – Part two – Balancing act
77 min
12
The BBC – Part one – Inform, educate, entertain
72 min
13
Benjamin Netanyahu – Part two – Divide and conquer
74 min
14
Benjamin Netanyahu – Part one – Making enemies
55 min
15
US Post-Election Live Show – Part Two
63 min
16
US Post-Election Live Show – Part One
46 min
17
Artificial Intelligence – Part Two – Skynet’s t...
68 min
18
Conspiracy Theory - Exclusive audiobook excerpt
22 min
19
Artificial Intelligence – Part One – Deus ex ma...
60 min
20
The Suffragettes – Part Two – By any means nece...
70 min
21
The Suffragettes – Part one – Deeds not words
59 min
22
Russell Brand – Confidence man
78 min
23
The British Board of Film Classification – Who ...
38 min
24
Emmanuel Macron – The centrist cannot hold
41 min
25
Gaslighting – No, you’re not imagining it
30 min