Almost History

Almost History

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Almost History episodes

  • AH 1.02 Draining the swamp -Garibaldi's plan to diver Rome's river
    In 1875, Rome came close to losing its river.
    In that year, the liberator of Italy, General Giuseppe Garibaldi, visited and announced plans to clean up the Eternal City.

    His main target was the River Tiber. Garibaldi would solve problems from pollution to flooding by diverting the river and completely removing it from the city.

    Where did this idea come from? And why wasn’t it carried out?

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    The theme music is Newsroom by Riot.

    14 min
  • AH 1.01 Achtung! Achtung! Dystopian adventures with Nazi TV
    What if …

    ... Nazi Germany had been able to roll out the television equivalent of its inescapable radio network?

    Everywhere you turn, you see the unmistakable face of Adolf Hitler. His voice echoes in your head, broadcast from a thousand loudspeakers. His wild, gesticulating speech is reaching its foam speckled crescendo.

    Nazi television is everywhere. Looming over city squares, above the concourse of the railway station, on the factory floor and in every home.

    It is George Orwell’s 1984 made real, and it was a dream of visionaries working in Joseph Goebbels’s Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.

    In the end, only the small matter of a world war got in the way of the roll-out of a nationwide and unavoidable Nazi television network.

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    Music credits

    The theme music is Newsroom by Riot.

    The other music featured in this episode was:

    I Am Running with Temporary Success from a Monstrous Vacuum in Pursuit by Chris Zabriskie (licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) http://chriszabriskie.com/licensing)

    Night Owl by Broke For Free (licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) http://brokeforfree.com/)

    16 min

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Almost History. Always incredible. What if ... ? Almost History tells the amazing true stories behind the aborted missions, cancelled plans, utopian dreams, failed revolutions and hubristic designs…