79. McCarthyism: Paving The Way For Trump (Ep 6)
How did the McCarthy-era blacklist impact Hollywood for many decades to come? What happened when McCarthy’s right-hand-man Roy Cohn met a cocky young real estate developer called Donald Trump? Are we ...
23 Mar 40min
78. McCarthyism: The Fall of Joseph McCarthy (Ep 5)
What happened when Joseph McCarthy turned his communist-catching energy on the army? What film, directed by Elia Kazan and starring Marlon Brando, is viewed as an allegory for the McCarthy hearings? I...
16 Mar 42min
77. McCarthyism: The Crucible, High Noon, and Hollywood’s Revenge (Ep 4)
How did the most celebrated writers and directors in America take aim at McCarthyism in works such as High Noon and The Crucible? Why did Roy Cohn, the man who went on to be Donald Trump’s mentor, get...
9 Mar 47min
76. McCarthyism: Spies, Lies, And Smears (Ep 3)
Who is Joseph McCarthy, the young senator who gives his name to these trials? Had Communist agents really infiltrated the US Government? Who were the Rosenbergs, America's most notorious communist cou...
2 Mar 37min
75. McCarthyism: Hollywood on Trial (Ep 2)
What happened when the House of Un-American Activities Committee started to prosecute some of the biggest names in Hollywood? Who were the infamous ‘Hollywood Ten’? Why did the trial of Alger Hiss, a ...
23 Feb 36min
74. McCarthyism: How The Red Scare Gripped America (Ep 1)
What was the second Red Scare where government employees, creatives, and intellectuals were prosecuted for holding ‘un-American’ views? What are the 19th century origins of Trump’s catch phrase, ‘Amer...
16 Feb 45min
73. Chernobyl: An Explosion That Brought Down A Superpower (Ep 6)
Did Chernobyl cause the collapse of the Soviet Union? How did the disaster fuel the fight for independence? What happened when war came to the Exclusion Zone after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022? How ...
12 Feb 36min
72. Chernobyl: Soviet Secrets Are Still Coming Out (Ep 5)
Who were the bio-robots, the 3,000 young reservists drafted in to fight the radiation? Why was an absurdly inadequate, yet enormous, structure built at pace to contain the fallout? Could trust be rest...
9 Feb 23min
