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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Society & Culture
News Commentary
History
26
Introvert / Extrovert – In Two Minds
54 min
27
Stephen Miller – American Fascist
74 min
28
15-Minute Cities – How Urban Design Entered the...
61 min
29
Blue Labour: We Need to Talk About Maurice
85 min
30
Socialism: The Finale – What’s Left?
95 min
31
The Fall of the USSR – End Game
90 min
32
Che Guevara – Guerrilla in the Mist
88 min
33
The New Left – Part Two – Children of the Revol...
68 min
34
The New Left – Part One – Generation Next
60 min
35
Origin Story – Live at the Tabernacle, 13th Nov...
118 min
36
The Labour Party – Part Three – One Battle Afte...
89 min
37
The Labour Party – Part Two – War and Peace
92 min
38
The Labour Party – Part One – A Very British So...
87 min
39
Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin – Part Three – Terror
90 min
40
Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin – Part Two – Power
86 min
41
Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin – Part One – Revolution
86 min
42
Karl Marx – Part Two – The Father
78 min
43
Karl Marx – Part One – The Fighter
84 min
44
The Birth of Socialism – A Better World is Poss...
87 min
45
The British Chinese – Hidden generations
60 min
46
Rivers of Blood – How Enoch Powell poisoned Bri...
81 min
47
Shostakovich and Stalin – The Composer and the ...
51 min
48
ICE – How Trump built an American Gestapo
50 min
49
Martin Luther King Jr. – Part Two – Owning the ...
78 min
50
Martin Luther King Jr. – Part One – Eyes on the...
88 min