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- 2.3 Ed Cecil-Smith
Part 1 of our interview with Tyler Wentzell, military historian and legal scholar. Wentzell talks about Ed Cecil-Smith, a Canadian volunteer, commanding officer in the International Brigades, and significant member of the Communist Party in Canada. He is also the subject of Wentzell's forthcoming book.
Photo from the Tamiment Library.
54 min - 1.8 Tiny Anderson: "The Police Is Terribly Brutal"
Kaarina Mikalson talks with Kevin Levangie about the life of Ivor "Tiny" Anderson, a Danish-Canadian volunteer who wrote fascinating letters home to his family and lived a short but eventful life.
28 min - 2.5 This Time a Better Podcast
Kevin and Kaarina (re)record their conversation about This Time a Better Earth, Ted Allan's 1939 Spanish Civil War novel.
38 min - 1.6 Anarchism in/and the Spanish Civil War
Kaarina chats with Hugh Goldring of Ad Astra Comix about Anarchism leading up to the Spanish Civil War, during the war, and in Canada and North America today. Hugh also shares his thoughts on anti-fascism today.
43 min - 2.7 Thomas Danek
Kevin and Kaarina discuss the short and tragic life of Canadian volunteer Thomas Danek.
18 min - 1.7 Tomo Cacic: A Difficult PrisonerKevin 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 EthiopiaCanada 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 literature34 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.
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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.