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Listen In

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  • 1.7 Tomo Cacic: A Difficult Prisoner

    Kevin Levangie tells us about a Canadian volunteer named Tomo Čačić, and his complicated journey to the Spanish Civil War and beyond. We talk about deportation, forced mobility, anti-communism, and nation-building.

     

    42 min
  • 2.4 A Real Live Military Historian

    In Part 2 of our interview with Tyler Wentzell, we talk about a whole lot of things: his research on Toronto's Standard Theatre, the Foreign Enlistment Act, canada and the Spanish Civil War from the persepctive of a military historian, and anti-fascism. 

    43 min
  • 2.1 It Ain't Ethiopia

    Canada and the Spanish Civil War co-director Emily Robins Sharpe talks about Jewish North American and African American participation in the Spanish Civil War, and the war's impact on Jewish North American and African American literature
     

    34 min
  • 2.9 Jean Watts

    Kaarina and Kevin talk about Jean "Jim" Watts, who worked as a journalist, broadcaster, driver, and censor in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.

     

    37 min
  • 1.3 Norman Bethune

    Kevin Levangie joins host Kaarina Mikalson to talk about Doctor Norman Bethune, a Canadian doctor who ran a blood transfusion service in Spain. Kevin tells us about Bethune's background, his radical politics, his art, and his work in Spain and China.

    58 min
  • 1.5 Update

    Just a quick announcement that Listen In is taking a break. We will be back in June with more episodes.

     

    3 min
  • 1.9 A Day in the Life of a Mac Pap

    Kevin Levangie traces the typical (if such a generalization is possible) journey and experience of a Canadian volunteer in the Spanish Civil War. He discusses the Canadian's resistance to discipline, how scarcity of resources affected volunteers, and the battles they engaged in.

    24 min
  • 2.6 Military Experience of the Canadian Volunteers
    Though the International Brigades provided very little military training, many volunteers brought their own experience. Kevin Levangie digs into the military backgrounds of Canadian volunteers, telling which wars they fought on, which sides they ended up on, and how their politics came up against their militarism.
    33 min
  • 1.1 Introduction

    In this episode, Kaarina Mikalson introduces the podcast, the project behind it, and provides a brief historical overview of the Spanish Civil War. Stay tuned for the next episode, about the International Brigades and the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion.

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    11 min

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A podcast about the people, movements and events that made the Spanish Civil War a part of Canada's cultural and political history.