S4E10: Rosa Luxemburg Part 2: From Zürich to Berlin
Yeah it’s long…she was a big deal! Part two sees us follow Rosa to Berlin from Zurich, with her doctorate in hand and a fig leaf marriage for a German passport. The partnership with Leo Jogiches has b...
29 Jul 1h 7min
S4E9: Rosa Luxemburg Part 1. From Warsaw to Zurich.
That’s right! Part 1! And you’d better enjoy this one, because it’s the most fun we’re gonna have on this topic! Imagine, you’re a young woman, charming, witty, a political genius with an unbridled pa...
15 Jul 41min
S4E8: Queer Women in Nazi Germany
Jumping off from Jonny’s brilliant discussion with historian Samuel Clowes Huneke about his book I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany (2026), we talk about some of the stand out stories...
1 Jul 48min
S4E7: Fritz Lang, early years to 1933
Legendary pioneering film director, original bad boy auteur, visionary…bit of a dick. Fritz Lang’s personal life was almost as dramatic as his films. He’s in Paris for the febrile pre-war days of 1914...
17 Jun 1h 17min
S4E6: Comedian Harmonists w/ Matti Geyer
Matti Geyer is here!! And we’re talking about The biggest boy band 20th-century Germany had to offer! The Comedian Harmonists, move over 5ive, get out of the way N’sync. Who could forget ‘Mein Kleine...
3 Jun 45min
S4E5: Circus Busch comes to town!
Roll up Roll up and welcome to Circus Busch! Sometimes it’s always there, in a permanent building along the Spree, that may or may not be used for significant meetings by various shades of the politic...
20 Mai 51min
S4E4: The Wolf's Lair: Hitler in WWII
Moving the German army into the Soviet Union could probably be described as one of the more difficult tasks of the 20th Century, or ever really. You may need to get up as early as 6am, no seriously I ...
6 Mai 1h 3min
S4E3: Nuremburg Interview with Jack El-Hai
In this special episode we talk with Jack El-Hai, journalist and author of The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, recently adapted into feature film Nuremberg with Russell Crowe and Rami Malek. We talk about ...
22 Apr 43min
