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251. Victorian Narcos: Flooding China With Indian Opium (Ep 5)
Apr 30, 2025Who were Jardine and Matheson? What was life like for workers growing opium in India? How does George Orwell relate to the East India Company opium trade? William and Anita explore how William Jardi...
250. Victorian Narcos: Banished From Beijing (Ep 4)
Apr 28, 2025How did the Macartney Mission fail so spectacularly? Where does the word ‘kowtow’ come from? Why were the diplomats banished from the Forbidden City? Listen as William and Anita continue the story ...
249. Victorian Narcos: Doomed Envoy to China (Ep 3)
Apr 23, 2025Who led the first British envoy to China? What did Europeans think of China in the 1700s? Why did the diplomats bring a huge planetarium as a gift for the Chinese emperor? William and Anita continue...
248. Victorian Narcos: Sex, Drugs, & The Opium Agency (Ep 2)
Apr 21, 2025How did Britain create a violent monopoly on opium production in India in the 1700s? What was the Opium Agency? Why did Chinese elites use opium during sex? Anita and William discuss how the East In...
247. Victorian Narcos: Tea Starts A Drug War (Ep 1)
Apr 16, 2025How did the British taste for tea start a war over the right to sell drugs to China? When did tea become fashionable in Britain? How did the Dutch bring tea to India? William and Anita explore how t...
246. Ireland Transformed: From Banning Condoms to Exporting Viagra
Apr 14, 2025How did Ireland go from a farming economy to the home of Big Tech and Big Pharma in Europe in a few decades? Why were women imprisoned in “Magdalene Laundries” in Ireland until 1996? How did Irish soc...
245. Inside The Good Friday Agreement with Alastair Campbell
Apr 09, 2025What ended The Troubles? Why was 1998 the right moment for a peace treaty? Which issues caused the most heated debate? What was the food like in the negotiating room? Exactly 27 years on since the Goo...
244. The Troubles: IRA Secrets Exposed (Ep 4)
Apr 07, 2025Who was responsible for the murder of Jean McConville? Which IRA secrets were revealed in the Belfast Project tapes? How did Gerry Adams move into politics and become a key figure in the signing of th...
243. The Troubles: London Bombings, Hunger Strikes, & The Graveside Grenade (Ep 3)
Apr 02, 2025Who organised the bombing of The Old Bailey in Central London? Why was Jean McConville abducted in December 1972? Why did the British government choose not to intervene when hunger strikers like Bobby...
The Troubles: Bloody Sunday & The British Army in Belfast (Ep 2)
Mar 31, 2025What was the British Army’s policy of “Internment” in Northern Ireland, and how did it drive membership for the Provisional IRA? Who was General Kitson? How did the Price sisters go from peaceful prot...