To understand a person you have to know what was happening in the world when they were twenty.
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In 1925, Frantz Fanon regrets joining the fight against facism. Music by Timbah.
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10 Jan 2025
Margaret Thatcher tastes defeat
In 1945, Margaret Thatcher watches her hero go down in flames.
Music by Timbah
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30 Aug 2024
James Baldwin buries his father
In 1943, James Baldwin buries is father and meets his hero.
Music by Timbah
Bibliography:
Native Son by Richard Wright
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
Talking at the Gates a Life of James Baldwin by James Campbell
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29 May 2024
Lyndon Johnson and the janitor
Did Lyndon Johnson really care about civil rights or was he motivated by party unity and cold political calculation?
Music by Timbah
Bibliography: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro
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30 Apr 2024
Hannah Arendt and the little magician
In 1926 Hannah Arendt says goodbye to the most exciting philosopher in Germany.
Music by Timbah.
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31 Mar 2024
Ayn Rand and the supercommunist
In 1925 Ayn Rand plots her escape from Leningrad while Stalin and Trotsky plot against each other.
Music by Timbah
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29 Jan 2024
Vladimir Nabokov and the revolution
In 1919, the 20-year-old Vladimir Nabokov has fled from revolutionary Petrograd and decamped to the Crimea where he writes poetry, catalogues butterflies, plays chess and waits for Lenin's Red Army to arrive.
Bibliography:
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Collected Poems by Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years by Brian Boyd
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31 Dec 2023
George Orwell the cop
In 1923, there is no such thing as George Orwell, but a policeman called Eric Blair is collecting stories.
Music:
Paws by Timbah
Bibliography:
Shooting an Elephant by Geroge Orwell
Burmese Days by Geroge Orwell
1984 by Geroge Orwell
Orwell: The New Life by DJ Taylor
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26 Nov 2023
Sigmund Freud and the long depression
In 1874 the Austrian economy was on its keens and a young Sigmund Freud met Franz Brentano, "an ideal human being".
Written and read by Nicholas Barrett
Music: Paws by Timbah
Bibliography:
The Austrians by Gordon Brook-Sheperd
Becoming Freud by Adam Phillips
Freud by Stefan Zweig
Freud An Intellectual Biography by Joel Whitebook
Sigmund Freud by Matt Ffytche
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Thank you to Barnaby Slater
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10 Nov 2023
Friedrich Nietzsche disappoints his mother
In 1864 Nietzsche went to Bonn, where he tried and failed to study theology.
Written and read by Nicholas Barrett
Music: Friends From the Afterlife by Heston Mimms.
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