Double Helix: Blueprint of Nations

About Double Helix: Blueprint of Nations

Welcome to 'Double Helix: Blueprint of Nations,' the podcast where we analyze and look at the events, people and actions that have shaped the nations of our world . From revolutions to treaties, conflicts to triumphs, we explore the historical blueprints that continue to influence the way nations think and act today.

Publisher

Paul De La Rosa

Category

history · history · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Nov 2023

Latest episode

10 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

100 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Oct 2026

   The 7 Years War: The World Catches Fire (Part 2)

   On a cold Sunday in March 1757, Admiral John Byng knelt on a cushion on the quarterdeck of a ship in Portsmouth harbour, dropped a handkerchief, and was shot by a platoon of Royal Marines while the entire fleet watched. He had thirty-nine years of service. His crime was failing to try hard enough. Voltaire got the line that stuck: in this country it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. That is what Britain looked like in 1757. Losing, frightened, and ...

2. 

   27 Sept 2026

   The 7 Years War: A World Set Ablaze (Part 1)

   Before he was the marble man on the money, George Washington was a twenty-two-year-old Virginia militia officer with more ambition than judgment, standing in a rain-soaked hollow in western Pennsylvania watching something happen that he did not order and could not stop. Ten French soldiers were dead. Their commander had been carrying a diplomatic summons that nobody read. And within two years, the consequences of that morning were being fought out on the Elbe and the Ganges, in the sugar isla...

3. 

   12 Sept 2026

   Australian Folly: The Great Emu War of 1932

   In 1932, Western Australian wheat farmers — many of them WWI veterans — were losing their livelihoods to an invasion of 20,000 emus. Their government's answer: send in the army, with machine guns. What followed is one of the strangest true stories in military history. The soldiers had orders, tactics, and firepower. The emus had numbers, speed, and — according to the men sent to stop them — something that looked uncomfortably like teamwork. Six weeks later, the campaign quietly ended, the bir...

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

379

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

17 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

14 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 74 / 100

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Quality

76

Social presence

90

YouTube

64

Engagement

71

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