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Origin Story — 124 episodes

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Origin Story live show announcement!
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Origin Story live show announcement!
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Starmer Revisited – Where Did It All Go Wrong?
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The Luddites – Rage Against the Machine
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Paranormal Investigations – Is There Anybody Out There?
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Think Tanks – Part Two – The Room Where It Happens
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Think Tanks – Part One – What’s the Big Idea?
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Evangelicals – Part Two – Good News, Bad News
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Evangelicals – Part One – Altared States
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J.K. Rowling – Part Two – Transparent
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J.K. Rowling – Part One – Transformation
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European Union – Part Three – The Expanse
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European Union – Part Two – Reality Bites
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European Union – Part One – Come Together
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Origin Story – Live at Bloomsbury Theatre, 15th April 2026
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The General Strike – The Revolution That Wasn’t
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Introvert / Extrovert – In Two Minds
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Stephen Miller – American Fascist
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15-Minute Cities – How Urban Design Entered the Culture War
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Blue Labour: We Need to Talk About Maurice

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Socialism: The Finale – What’s Left?
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The Fall of the USSR – End Game
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Che Guevara – Guerrilla in the Mist
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The New Left – Part Two – Children of the Revolution
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The New Left – Part One – Generation Next
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Origin Story – Live at the Tabernacle, 13th Nov 2025
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The Labour Party – Part Three – One Battle After Another
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The Labour Party – Part Two – War and Peace
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The Labour Party – Part One – A Very British Socialism
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Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin – Part Three – Terror
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Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin – Part Two – Power
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Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin – Part One – Revolution
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Karl Marx – Part Two – The Father
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Karl Marx – Part One – The Fighter
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The Birth of Socialism – A Better World is Possible
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The British Chinese – Hidden generations
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Rivers of Blood – How Enoch Powell poisoned Britain
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Shostakovich and Stalin – The Composer and the Dictator
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ICE – How Trump built an American Gestapo

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Martin Luther King Jr. – Part Two – Owning the dream
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Martin Luther King Jr. – Part One – Eyes on the Prize

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Growth – GDP is the Magic Number

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Mars – The Next Frontier?

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Appeasement – Part Two – Betrayal

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Appeasement – Part One – The Bitter Cup

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Origin Story Live at 21 Soho – Grand Theft America

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Partition – Part Two – Dividing Lines

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Partition – Part One – Before Midnight

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Thatcherism – Part Two – Imperial phase

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Thatcherism – Part One – Birth of a Notion

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Kemi Badenoch – Identity crisis

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The Myth of Cultural Marxism – Anatomy of a conspiracy theory

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Doctor Who – The Regeneration Game

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Trump’s inauguration: Can we call it fascism yet? – Plus exclusive audiobook excerpt

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Elon Musk and the Death of Twitter

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The Daily Mail – Part two – Paper Tigers

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The Daily Mail – Part one – Barons and Blackshirts

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The BBC – Part two – Balancing act

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The BBC – Part one – Inform, educate, entertain

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Benjamin Netanyahu – Part two – Divide and conquer

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Benjamin Netanyahu – Part one – Making enemies

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US Post-Election Live Show – Part Two

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US Post-Election Live Show – Part One

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Artificial Intelligence – Part Two – Skynet’s the limit

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Conspiracy Theory - Exclusive audiobook excerpt

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Artificial Intelligence – Part One – Deus ex machina

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The Suffragettes – Part Two – By any means necessary

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The Suffragettes – Part one – Deeds not words

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Russell Brand – Confidence man

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The British Board of Film Classification – Who watches the watchers?

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Emmanuel Macron – The centrist cannot hold

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Gaslighting – No, you’re not imagining it

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The Battle of Cable Street

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Bonus edition: Far-Right Riots

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Origin Story Post-Election Special – Live in Islington

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The Rushdie Affair – Blasphemous Rumours
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Keir Starmer – PM Dawn

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Anti-vaxxers – Herd impunity

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Genocide – Part Two – The search for justice

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Genocide – Part One – The ultimate crime

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John Stuart Mill & Harriet Taylor Mill – Part Two – Love, bravery and feminism

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John Stuart Mill & Harriet Taylor Mill – Part One – Liberalism's original power couple

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George Orwell Part 2 – From Broadcasting House to Airstrip One

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George Orwell Part 1 – From Eton to Barcelona

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10 Downing Street – The makeshift mansion

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The Illuminati – Top of the Plots

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Apocalypse How? Dorian on the birth of end of the world fiction

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Effective Altruism: Morality by numbers

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Eugenics Part Two: The Murderous Science

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Eugenics Part One: Gene Genies

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Night of the Living Allegory: The Politics of Zombies

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John Maynard Keynes Part Two: We’re all Keynesians now

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John Maynard Keynes Part One: The Establishment Radical

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Boomers: You never had it so good

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Jordan B Peterson Part Two: The Unravelling

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Jordan B Peterson Part One: Ascension

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Bonuscast! Oppenheimer: Fallout

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Live in London

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Elon Musk: The Man Who Fell to Earth

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Zionism Part 2

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Zionism Part 1

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Climate Change Denial part 2: Fuelling the Flames

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Climate Change Denial part 1: Science Friction

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Nuclear War part 2: The Final Countdown

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Nuclear War part 1: The Unthinkable

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Atheism: No God, What Now?

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Churchill part 2: Inside the Enigma Machine

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Churchill part 1: Rebel Without A Cause

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Special: Gary Lineker, Free Speech and the Nazis

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New podcast: Mugshots with Michael Crick
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A taster of JAM TOMORROW with Ros Taylor – our new documentary podcast
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Freedom of Speech: Censors working overtime

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The War on Drugs: The smack of firm government

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Fascism: The fraternity of violence

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Satire: Laughter in the dark

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Culture War: Inside the rage machine

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Ayn Rand: The ego has landed

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Neoliberalism: Everything’s for sale

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Woke: The word that splits the world

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Superheroes: Truth, justice and the outsider way

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Centrism: Stuck in the middle with you
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Conspiracy Theory: What they’re not telling you
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McCarthyism: How one grifter still poisons America

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