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.
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Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin – Part One – Revolution
86 min
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Karl Marx – Part Two – The Father
78 min
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Karl Marx – Part One – The Fighter
84 min
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The Birth of Socialism – A Better World is Poss...
87 min
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The British Chinese – Hidden generations
60 min
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Rivers of Blood – How Enoch Powell poisoned Bri...
81 min
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Shostakovich and Stalin – The Composer and the ...
51 min
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ICE – How Trump built an American Gestapo
50 min
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Martin Luther King Jr. – Part Two – Owning the ...
78 min
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Martin Luther King Jr. – Part One – Eyes on the...
88 min
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Growth – GDP is the Magic Number
84 min
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Mars – The Next Frontier?
80 min
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Appeasement – Part Two – Betrayal
80 min
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Appeasement – Part One – The Bitter Cup
81 min
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Origin Story Live at 21 Soho – Grand Theft America
90 min
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Partition – Part Two – Dividing Lines
71 min
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Partition – Part One – Before Midnight
71 min
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Thatcherism – Part Two – Imperial phase
88 min
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Thatcherism – Part One – Birth of a Notion
86 min
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Kemi Badenoch – Identity crisis
68 min
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The Myth of Cultural Marxism – Anatomy of a con...
55 min
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Doctor Who – The Regeneration Game
57 min
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Trump’s inauguration: Can we call it fascism ye...
36 min
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Elon Musk and the Death of Twitter
55 min
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The Daily Mail – Part two – Paper Tigers
72 min