Podcast: The Rest Is History (LS 79 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 93. Silicon Valley Part 1
Pub date: 2021-09-06

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Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland are joined by tech pioneer Marc Andreessen. Has the internet been the most important force in modern history? In part one of this two part series they look at how the internet developed out of military technology, whether early developers knew they were changing the world, and why business initially built a ‘wall of scepticism’ around the possibilities of the World Wide Web.

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Podcast: The Rest Is History (LS 79 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 92. Nuclear Weapons
Pub date: 2021-09-01

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The year is 1983, and on November the 8th the world is the closest it’s ever been to nuclear destruction, yet nobody at the time realises. Dominic and Tom are joined by author and historian Taylor Downing to discuss how Armageddon was just avoided and why Tom, living near Salisbury, was in more danger than most.

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Produced by Jack Davenport & Harry Lineker

Exec Producer Tony Pastor

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Podcast: The Rest Is History (LS 79 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 68. The British Empire
Pub date: 2021-07-01

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The British Empire: good, bad or neither? And how does its legacy shape us today? Journalist Sathnam Sanghera, author of “Empireland”, joins Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook to explore this timely, fascinating and hugely controversial subject.

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Produced by Jack Davenport

Exec Producer Tony Pastor

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Podcast: The Rest Is History (LS 79 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 61. California
Pub date: 2021-06-07

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No state in America captures the imagination quite like California. With its glitz and glamour and also its enormous economic disparities the state is a symbol of both the American dream and nightmare. Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland explore California’s origins as well as its modern day politics.

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Podcast: The Rest Is History (LS 79 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 53. Game of Thrones
Pub date: 2021-05-17

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What, if anything, can we learn about medieval history from Game of Thrones? Or is George R R Martin’s hugely popular series of books, and the blockbuster TV series based on them, in danger of supplanting true history in the popular imagination? Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, both huge fans of the series, discuss books, films and history.

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Podcast: The Rest Is History (LS 79 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 48. The French Revolution
Pub date: 2021-05-03

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With France facing economic struggles and rising unemployment revolution was in the air. But who was in charge of the uprising and what did it achieve? Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland storm their own podcasting Bastille.

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Podcast: The Rest Is History (LS 79 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 38. Communism
Pub date: 2021-03-29

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It was one of the great political ideologies of the 20th century, vying with capitalism for supremacy.

Now communism has retreated from the political mainstream having failed to create the utopia of a classless society.

Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland discuss the origins of communism as a theory and the frequently repressive attempts to govern by its principles.

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Episode: 23. The 90s
Pub date: 2021-02-15

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Ecstasy, emails and economic stability. Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland discuss the 1990s, a decade which brought us Oasis, Tony Blair, Monica Lewinsky and Mr Blobby.

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Episode: 20. China
Pub date: 2021-02-04

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Broadcaster and historian Michael Wood joins Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook to discuss the world’s oldest civilisation. What were the great moments in Chinese history and why do the Opium Wars still feature so prominently in the modern Chinese school syllabus? The birth of the Chinese Communist Party and the complicated legacy of Chairman Mao all feature.

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Podcast: The Rest Is History (LS 79 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 2. Civil War
Pub date: 2020-11-02

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What are the conditions needed for a civil war to start? Could we see a modern industrial nation turn upon itself again? Historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook explore examples from ancient history though to Spain in the 1930s and Yugoslavia in the 1990s to work out what it takes for neighbour to murder neighbour.

Produced by Jack Davenport

Exec Producer Tony Pastor

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