We Are History

By Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell

The less-than-serious history podcast with stand up comedian Angela Barnes (The News Quiz, Mock The Week and Live at The Apollo) and writer John O'Farrell (An Utterly Impartial History of Br... more

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How many episodes does We Are History have?

The podcast currently has 113 episodes available.

We Are History episodes:

December 12, 2022 Christmas Number Ones
Never mind world wars or revolutions, it's time to do the really important history - how did Christmas singles become a thing in the UK, and when was the golden age of of the festive hit. Warning; includes John doing dad singing.
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1h 17min
December 05, 2022 Mussolini - the rubbish war leader
It is compulsory or a man of John's age to do one episode on the Second World War. But fascists being useless is always worth revisiting - and the farcical and disastrous leadership of Benito Mussolini between 1940-45 is that rare thing in modern history - a bit of World War 2 that hasn't been done to death.
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45min
November 28, 2022 The Domestication of Dogs
How a few hungry wolves hanging around outside the caves led to Paris Hilton's embarrassed chihuahua wearing a tiara and sitting in a chintzy handbag.
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1h 2min
November 21, 2022 The Birth of the BBC
With the BBC celebrating it's centenary, we explore how the corporation came into existence, out of a chaotic broadcasting free-for-all. (This podcast was originally submitted as a programme idea to the Home Service in 1927, but we gave up waiting for a response)
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1h 3min
November 14, 2022 The Stasi Poetry Circle - the East Germans secret police advancing socialism through verse

Angela has read yet another book about East Germany (this one by Philip Oltermann) and explains how it was believed that loyalty to the Communist regime could be secured, not just by suppressing dissent and spying on your neighbours, but also with encouraging pro-government poetry . (Includes a hastily-penned socialist limerick written by John.)

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1h 13min
November 07, 2022 The Fascist Who Switched Sides and Spied on the British Far Right
The incredible story of Ray Hill who in the 1970s underwent a massive change of heart and switched from fascist rabble-rouser to secret informant undermining the British Far Right and preventing a racist terrorist attack.
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48min
October 31, 2022 The 60s Satire Boom
How are group of clever young graduates working in a shed in Cambridge discovered a powerful new weapon that became known as 'satire'.
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57min
October 24, 2022 The slow death of John Major’s government 1992-97
How self-inflicted economic disasters and endless sleazy scandals made a Conservative government massively unpopular. Imagine it.
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March 28, 2022 The Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
The women-only peace camp that became the focus of the anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s and inspired a whole new generation of feminists. (Contains walk on parts for both of John's parents.)
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1h 3min
March 21, 2022 Agent Sonya
In a life that began in the Weimar Republic and outlived the Berlin Wall, Ursula Kuczynski spied for Communism all around the world, and not even her own children suspect anything.
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1h 19min

FAQs about We Are History:

How many episodes does We Are History have?

The podcast currently has 113 episodes available.

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