World Cup | Post Colonial World | 2
What happens when the nations that invented football start losing their grip on it? How does a team representing a country that doesn't officially exist end up touring the world and unnerving an empir...
25 Juni 41min
World Cup | Origins In Empire | 1
How did a game scribbled into rules by Victorian schoolboys end up watched by four billion people? Why do the countries that were colonised take such fierce joy in beating the ones that colonised them...
23 Juni 44min
1776 | America 250: What the Culture Says | 2
What does a country sing about when it can't agree on its own founding? Why has Hollywood, which will film literally anything, never made a great movie about 1776? And when both the Black Lives Matter...
18 Juni 36min
1776 | The Legacy For Our Culture | 1
Why did African Americans spend a century celebrating the Fifth of July instead of the Fourth? Why did a sitting US president personally try to end a journalist's career over one newspaper series? And...
16 Juni 40min
1776 | The Women Washington Could Never Catch | 2
Who really built American freedom — and why does the answer make so many people so uncomfortable? What happens when an enslaved woman takes the Declaration of Independence more seriously than the man ...
11 Juni 36min
1776 | The Founding Mothers | 1
The Declaration of Independence said all men are created equal. But what did that mean to the women who heard those words and knew they were being lied to? Who were the women the founding fathers neve...
9 Juni 34min
Declaration of Independence | The Brand | 2
Who wrote "all men are created equal" — and then went home to more than 180 enslaved people? What does a document actually mean when it excludes women, Indigenous peoples, and one in five of the very ...
4 Juni 36min
Declaration of Independence | Follow The Money | 1
What if the Boston Tea Party had less to do with liberty and more to do with a smuggler protecting his profit margins? What if hurricanes tearing through the Caribbean helped light the fuse of revolut...
2 Juni 40min
