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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Origin Story – Live at the Tabernacle, 13th Nov...
118 min
2
The Labour Party – Part Three – One Battle Afte...
89 min
3
The Labour Party – Part Two – War and Peace
92 min
4
The Labour Party – Part One – A Very British So...
87 min
5
Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin – Part Three – Terror
90 min
6
Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin – Part Two – Power
86 min
7
Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin – Part One – Revolution
86 min
8
Karl Marx – Part Two – The Father
78 min
9
Karl Marx – Part One – The Fighter
84 min
10
The Birth of Socialism – A Better World is Poss...
87 min
11
The British Chinese – Hidden generations
60 min
12
Rivers of Blood – How Enoch Powell poisoned Bri...
81 min
13
Shostakovich and Stalin – The Composer and the ...
51 min
14
ICE – How Trump built an American Gestapo
50 min
15
Martin Luther King Jr. – Part Two – Owning the ...
78 min
16
Martin Luther King Jr. – Part One – Eyes on the...
88 min
17
Growth – GDP is the Magic Number
84 min
18
Mars – The Next Frontier?
80 min
19
Appeasement – Part Two – Betrayal
80 min
20
Appeasement – Part One – The Bitter Cup
81 min
21
Origin Story Live at 21 Soho – Grand Theft America
90 min
22
Partition – Part Two – Dividing Lines
71 min
23
Partition – Part One – Before Midnight
71 min
24
Thatcherism – Part Two – Imperial phase
88 min
25
Thatcherism – Part One – Birth of a Notion
86 min