- 641
- Episodes
- 85
- Transcribed
- 65
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
About History As It Happens
Discover how the past shapes the present with the best historians in the world. Everything happening today comes from something, somewhere. History As It Happens features interviews with today's top scholars and thinkers, interwoven with audio from history's archive. Subscribe for ad-free episodes, early access, and bonus content. https://historyasithappens.supercast.com/
- Publisher
- Martin Di Caro
- Category
- history · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 12 Jan 2021
- Latest episode
- 14 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
85 of 641 episodes have a transcript.
14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
What the Saudis Knew About 9/11 (Bonus)
13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Daniel Ortega and the Sandinistas
9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Who's Running Iran? (Bonus)
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What the Saudis Knew About 9/11 (Bonus)
Published 14 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Conflicting reports out of Afghanistan. Some saying that Soviet forces now are in complete control of all major towns and highways. Others saying that heavy fighting continues in key areas of the country. Saudi Arabia and the CIA, through Pakistan, funded the anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan in the 1980s. That is the cauldron where Islamic radicals from across the globe, including Osama bin Laden, arrive to fight the Red Army, where the journalist Ahmed Rashid says, in camps near Peshawar and in Afghanistan, these radicals met each other for the first time and studied, trained, and fought together. […]
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- Peter Bergen
- Jeffrey Gould
- Trita Parsi
- William Hitchcock
- Nathan Brown
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.3 / 5
- 65 ratings
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- 98
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 90
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