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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From Podmasters, the makers of Oh God, What Now?, American Friction and The Bunker.
1
15-Minute Cities – How Urban Design Entered the...
61 min
2
Blue Labour: We Need to Talk About Maurice
85 min
3
Socialism: The Finale – What’s Left?
95 min
4
The Fall of the USSR – End Game
90 min
5
Che Guevara – Guerrilla in the Mist
88 min
6
The New Left – Part Two – Children of the Revol...
68 min
7
The New Left – Part One – Generation Next
60 min
8
Origin Story – Live at the Tabernacle, 13th Nov...
118 min
9
The Labour Party – Part Three – One Battle Afte...
89 min
10
The Labour Party – Part Two – War and Peace
92 min
11
The Labour Party – Part One – A Very British So...
87 min
12
Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin – Part Three – Terror
90 min
13
Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin – Part Two – Power
86 min
14
Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin – Part One – Revolution
86 min
15
Karl Marx – Part Two – The Father
78 min
16
Karl Marx – Part One – The Fighter
84 min
17
The Birth of Socialism – A Better World is Poss...
87 min
18
The British Chinese – Hidden generations
60 min
19
Rivers of Blood – How Enoch Powell poisoned Bri...
81 min
20
Shostakovich and Stalin – The Composer and the ...
51 min
21
ICE – How Trump built an American Gestapo
50 min
22
Martin Luther King Jr. – Part Two – Owning the ...
78 min
23
Martin Luther King Jr. – Part One – Eyes on the...
88 min
24
Growth – GDP is the Magic Number
84 min
25
Mars – The Next Frontier?
80 min