Wars That Shaped The World

Kimberley, the diamond mining capital of South Africa and the heart of the De Beers diamond empire is surrounded by the Boers. Cecil John Rhodes - politician, businessman, imperialist and believer implicitly in white domination, lobbies Britain help to free ‘his’ town.

Narrated by Paul Waggott

Written by David Thomas

Production and Sound Design by Holy Smokes Audio

Executive Producers Tony Pastor + Neil Fearn

A Goalhanger Podcasts Production

Cast;

Conrad Reid

Thomas Mitchells 

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The conflict had now begun and was expected to result in a swift decisive victory for the British, the world’s most powerful Empire. The butchery of Spion Kop to the resistance of Mafeking however were stops on a journey to a series of humiliating military reverses and devastating sieges. 

Narrated by Paul Waggott

Written by David Thomas

Production and Sound Design by Holy Smokes Audio

Executive Producers Tony Pastor + Neil Fearn

A Goalhanger Podcasts Production

Cast;

Conrad Reid

Thomas Mitchells 

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A death at police hands is the final ingredient added to a toxic brew of British grievances against their Afrikaner rulers. For the Boers the British are little more than foreigners, and both see the tens of thousands of black Africans worthy of no rights whatsoever. 

The debate is simply over which white men will rule.

Narrated by Paul Waggott

Written by David Thomas

Production and Sound Design by Holy Smokes Audio

Executive Producers Tony Pastor + Neil Fearn

A Goalhanger Podcasts Production

Cast;

Conrad Reid

Thomas Mitchells 

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After being stunned by China’s Red Army, Douglas MacArthur wanted payback – MacArthur demanded President Truman allow him to use the US military’s deadliest weapon, the nuclear bomb. MacArthur wanted to drop 50. The president thought it over; and decided against it. It was the end for MacArthur but not the war. A bloody stalemate settled over the Korean peninsula.  

Narrated by Paul Waggott

Written by Robin Scott Elliot

Production and Sound Design by Holy Smokes Audio

Executive Producers Tony Pastor + Neil Fearn

A Goalhanger Podcasts Production

Cast;

William Roberts as General Douglas MacArthur

Lance Fuller as General Stratemayer

Julian Alexander as Bulldog Walker

Tim Licata

Zhang Hongtao

Wang Hui

Boyoung Jo

WK C

Thomas Mitchells

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They came out of the gloom of the Manchurian winter, bugles blowing, and swept all before them – the Chinese had arrived and once again the Korean War took a dramatic turn. The threat of China’s Red Army had been dismissed by General MacArthur, but it proved a catastrophic mistake. The United Nations force was swept out of North Korea, a humbling for MacArthur as his forces endured the worst retreat in US military history.

Narrated by Paul Waggott

Written by Robin Scott Elliot

Production and Sound Design by Holy Smokes Audio

Executive Producers Tony Pastor + Neil Fearn

A Goalhanger Podcasts Production

Cast;

William Roberts as General Douglas MacArthur

Lance Fuller as General Stratemayer

Julian Alexander as Bulldog Walker

Tim Licata

Zhang Hongtao

Wang Hui

Boyoung Jo

WK C

Thomas Mitchells

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Douglas MacArthur had no military equal, at least in his own mind. The veteran and hero of the victory over Japan believed he could do the same in Korea and with an audacious amphibious landing at Inchon turned the war on its head. The Reds were on the run, victory for the US, British and rest of the United Nations forces seemed inevitable. Could anything stop General MacArthur’s final triumph?

Narrated by Paul Waggott

Written by Robin Scott Elliot

Production and Sound Design by Holy Smokes Audio

Executive Producers Tony Pastor + Neil Fearn

A Goalhanger Podcasts Production

Cast;

William Roberts as General Douglas MacArthur

Lance Fuller as General Stratemayer

Julian Alexander as Bulldog Walker

Tim Licata

Zhang Hongtao

Wang Hui

Boyoung Jo

WK C

Thomas Mitchells

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At 4am on June 25th, 1950, the Land of the Morning Calm was shattered by the sound of artillery firing across the 38th parallel dividing Korea into north and south. Soon the growl of tank engines, Soviet-made T-34s, confirmed what was coming. Invasion. North Korea’s surprise attack on their ill-prepared southern neighbours began the first major conflict of the Cold War, a war of sweeping advance and hurried retreat whose consequence is still felt today.

Narrated by Paul Waggott

Written by Robin Scott Elliot

Production and Sound Design by Holy Smokes Audio

Executive Producers Tony Pastor + Neil Fearn

A Goalhanger Podcasts Production

Cast;

William Roberts as General Douglas MacArthur

Lance Fuller as General Stratemayer

Julian Alexander as Bulldog Walker

Tim Licata

Zhang Hongtao

Wang Hui

Boyoung Jo

WK C

Thomas Mitchells

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‘It looked like what you’d always imagine hell would.’ General Norman Schwarzkopf masterminded the US-led coalition’s crushing victory. Afterwards Stormin Norman flew along the Highway of Death, the road out of Kuwait, looking down on what his troops had done. Schwarzkopf’s men freed Kuwait and shattered the Iraqi army, its charred remains littering the highway – but did the outcome make further conflict inevitable?

Narrated by Paul Waggott

Written by Robin Scott Elliot

Production and Sound Design by Holy Smokes Audio

Executive Producers Tony Pastor + Neil Fearn

A Goalhanger Podcasts Production

Cast;

Amal El-hawrani

Nezar Alderazi

Terry Silverthorne

Kasper Michaels

Cherise Silvestri

Amina-Rose Jameel

Yusef Jameel

Ali Al-Saffu

Tim Skinner

Thomas Mitchells

Abdelrahman Alhato

Qutaiba F. Abdelhaq

Tony E. Walker

Dorien Jaye

Ahmad Al Al Ketbi

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In the early hours of Sunday, 24 February, 1991, the still of the desert night was disturbed by the sound of helicopters, packed with paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division, rising into the dark. The land war to free Kuwait from the Iraqi invaders had begun. It was to last a matter of days, but for the men who fought it Operation Desert Storm would stay with them for the rest of theirs.

Narrated by Paul Waggott

Written by Robin Scott Elliot

Production and Sound Design by Holy Smokes Audio

Executive Producers Tony Pastor + Neil Fearn

A Goalhanger Podcasts Production

Cast;

Amal El-hawrani

Nezar Alderazi

Terry Silverthorne

Kasper Michaels

Cherise Silvestri

Amina-Rose Jameel

Yusef Jameel

Ali Al-Saffu

Tim Skinner

Thomas Mitchells

Abdelrahman Alhato

Qutaiba F. Abdelhaq

Tony E. Walker

Dorien Jaye

Ahmad Al Al Ketbi

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Welcome to the first 24-hour news war. Saddam called it the ‘mother of all battles’. American jets, he proclaimed, would be blasted from Iraqi skies. The world was glued to rolling news channels as a very different conflict unfolded. Missiles and smart bombs rained down on Baghdad. In response Saddam launched Scud missiles at Israel, trying to explode the conflict into a Middle East-wide war. The world watched, and held its breath. 

Narrated by Paul Waggott

Written by Robin Scott Elliot

Production and Sound Design by Holy Smokes Audio

Executive Producers Tony Pastor + Neil Fearn

A Goalhanger Podcasts Production

Cast;

Amal El-hawrani

Nezar Alderazi

Terry Silverthorne

Kasper Michaels

Cherise Silvestri

Amina-Rose Jameel

Yusef Jameel

Ali Al-Saffu

Tim Skinner

Thomas Mitchells

Abdelrahman Alhato

Qutaiba F. Abdelhaq

Tony E. Walker

Dorien Jaye

Ahmad Al Al Ketbi

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