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Years of Lead Pod — 119 episodes

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1

Franco Piperno: The Insurrectionary Nuclear Physicist, ft. Matilde Marcolli

2

The Uar, pt. 3: We're Just Mad About Saffron (ft. Cantor)

3

The Uar, pt. 2: The Rise of D'Amato (ft. Cantor)

4

The Uar, Part 1: "Post-Fascist" Secret Police (ft. Cantor)

5

The Philosophy, Politics, and Poetics of Toni Negri, ft. Matilde Marcolli

6

Berlinguer's "Accident" and the Origin of Lo Strappo

7

Ambush on Via Carini: The Death of Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa

8

Roberto Calvi's Last Dance

9

Years of Lead: Where Are They Now Episode

10

The Winter Campaign, pt. 4: Decline and Fall of the Red Brigades

11

The Winter Campaign, pt. 3: De Tormentis

12

The Winter Campaign, pt. 2: Gladio Arcana, ft. Niccolò Petrelli

13

The Winter Campaign, pt. 1: The Beginning of the End

14

il manifesto, pt. 2: Unity, Democracy, Revolution, ft/ Matilde Marcolli

15

il manifesto, pt. 1: Revolt of the Intellectuals, ft/ Matilde Marcolli

16

International Fascism from Mussolini to the Years of Lead, ft. Emanuel Rota

17

Murder, Intrigue, and Infamy: The Story of Italian Fascists Behind Bars

18

The Vallanzasca Gang and Italian Crime Fiction of the 1970s, ft. Marek Turner

19

Ronald Stark and the Electric Terrorism Acid Test, ft. Phil Edwards

20

Azione Rivoluzionaria: The Destructive Critique of Everyday Life

21

Fascist Hobbits? A conversation with Hari Kunzru

22

Ludwig: The Fascist Serial Killer Cult

23

The Red Brigades, pt. 10: The Season of the Four Kidnappings

24

The End of Prima Linea and Beginning of the Social Peace

25

The Downfall of the Roman Fascist Underworld

26

La Mattanza and the Rise of Corleone

27

The Red Brigades, pt. 9: The D’Urso Kidnapping and the Ascent of Giovanni Senzani

28

The Bologna Massacre, pt. 3: "'It's them,' and 'finally.'" ft. Matilde Marcolli

29

The Bologna Massacre, pt. 2: Evidence and Misdirections, ft. Matilde Marcolli

30

The Bologna Massacre, pt. 1: The Bomb, ft. Matilde Marcolli

31

Children of Terror: The March 28th Brigade and the Attack on the Democratic Press

32

The "Proletarian Subversion Committee" and the Murder of Giorgio Ambrosoli

33

The Ustica Tragedy

34

"Create Armed Spontaneity": The Violent Rebirth of the NAR

35

Illegal Work: The shady left-wing group that shook down nightclubs for the mob, traded bombs for guns, and pulled off an art heist, ft. Margaret Killjoy

36

Sparks Fly Upward: Nights of Fires and the Origin of the Calogero Theorem

37

The Red Brigades, pt. 7: Crossing the Red Line – The Murder of Guido Rossa

38

The Red Brigades, pt. 8: Decline of the Moretti System

39

Operation Alex and the Beginning of the End of the Front Line

40

"Left-Wing" Fascist Terror in the Anni di Piombo

41

The Fascist Legacy of Giorgio Almirante

42

The Memoriale and the Assassination of Mino Pecorelli

43

The Moro Case, pt. 8: "The Red Brigades Are Finished"

44

The Moro Case, pt. 7: "The Final Excommunication"

45

The Moro Case, pt. 6: Between Heaven, Hell, and the Mafia

46

The Moro Case, pt. 5: The War of Nerves Begins

47

Exclusive Interview with Nicola Guerra on the Italian Far Right

48

The Moro Case, pt. 4: The Massacre of via Fani

49

The Moro Case, pt. 3: The Spring Campaign

50

The Moro Case, pt. 2: The Third Phase

51

The Moro Case, pt. 1: Who Was Aldo Moro?

52

The Red Brigades, pt. 6: "Knights of a Bloody Apocalypse"

53

"The Wild Bunch": Prima Linea and the '77 Movement

54

The Kidnapping of Duke Grazioli and the Rise of the Banda della Magliana

55

The Red Brigades, pt. 5: The New Generation of Brigadist Assassins, ft. Shane Burley

56

The Red Brigades, pt. 4: The Final Act of the Historic Nucleus, ft. Shane Burley

57

The Corsican Fishers Who Snagged Eugenio Cefis

58

Acca Larenzia and the Birth of the NAR

59

The '77 Movement, pt. 3: The "Black Autonomy" and the Murder of Walter Rossi

60

"Circulating Struggles" with Kevin Van Meter

61

The '77 Movement, pt. 2: "Chopin. Wine. Rage and Joy."

62

The '77 Movement, pt. 1: "Non Lama nessuno"

63

"The Witches Have Returned": How Italian Feminists Beat the Patriarchy, Won the Right to Abortion, and Changed the World

64

The Youth Proletariat Circles and the Cultural Revolution

65

Rauti's Return: The Conception of the Italian New Right and Third Position

66

Death on the Idroscalo: The Murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini

67

Monsters of Circeo

68

General Dalla Chiesa and the Origin of Modern Counter-Terrorism

69

From «No Truce» to the Front Line: The Deadly Rise of Prima Linea

70

"Season of Death": The Assassination of Vittorio Occorsio

71

"The Monstrous Responsibility": The Kidnapping of Carlo Saronio

72

Autonomia Organizzata and Armed Struggle in Rome, ft. Steve Wright

73

Red Brigades, pt. 3: "Take the Attack to the Heart of the State," ft. Shane Burley

74

The Origins of Autonomia, pt. 5: "No Truce" and the Communist Committees, ft. Tender

75

The Servizio d'Ordine and the Question of Force, ft. Fabrizio Salmoni

76

The PCI and the Historic Compromise, ft. David Broder

77

Origins of Autonomia, pt. 4: Veneto, workerism and the environment

78

The Origins of Autonomia, pt. 3: Red Flags over Fiatnam

79

Performing Clandestine Abortions, Organizing Security for Marches, and Getting Approached by the Red Brigades — Inside the 1970s Women's Movement with Lotta Continua Cofounder Vicky Franzinetti

80

The Origins of Autonomia, pt. 2: Milan, ft. Michael Hardt

81

The Origins of Autonomia, pt. 1: Rome, ft. Steve Wright

82

Unlocked: La banda "XXII ottobre": The Armed Group that Started the Years of Lead

83

Unlocked: "I'll Report Them Tomorrow": The Rape of Franca Rame

84

Unlocked: The Fashion Episode, ft. Emanuela Scarpellini

85

The Days of April in the Time of Wrenches

86

Italian Feminism and the Struggle for Divorce (ft. Francesca Fiorentini)

87

The Strategy of Tension Unravels, Pt. 2: Massacres of '74, ft. Alex Newhouse

88

The Strategy of Tension Unravels, Pt. 1: The Black Order, ft. Alex Newhouse

89

"Free Them All!", pt. 3: The Explosive End of the NAP, ft. Natasha Lennard

90

"Free Them All!", pt. 2: The Bloody Rise of the Nuclei Armati Proletari, ft. Natasha Lennard

91

"Free them All!", pt 1: The Birth of NAP, ft. Natasha Lennard

92

The Sindona Affair, pt. 2: "Se l'andava cercando," ft. Joshua Stephens

93

The Sindona Affair, pt. 1: The Rise of an Extraordinary Fixer, ft. Joshua Stephens

94

Count Sogno's White Coup

95

Rosa dei Venti, pt. 3: "The Fact Does Not Exist"

96

Rosa dei Venti, pt. 2: NATO Psywars, Demodoxalogy, and a Tantric Murder Cult

97

Rosa dei Venti, pt. 1: Active Combatantism and the Italian Stahlhelm

98

The Presidentialists: From Nuova Repubblica to the MAR

99

Talking Esoteric Fascism, Terrorism, and Conspiracies with Jeffrey Bale

100

"A Window to Hell": The Milan Questura Massacre

101

The Assassination of Commissioner Calabresi

102

"Undoubtedly Inhuman": The Peteano Massacre

103

Ordine Nuovo, pt. 2: Imperialisms, Coups, and "Nazi-Maoism"

104

Ordine Nuovo, pt. 1: Origins

105

The Red Brigades, pt. 2: "Hit and Run" (ft. Shane Burley)

106

The Red Brigades, pt. 1: Origins (ft. Shane Burley)

107

Current Events: The Heirs of the MSI (ft. Valerio Alfonso Bruno)

108

Feltrinelli 2: Return of the GAP (ft. Phil Edwards)

109

Feltrinelli 1: The Italian Zhivago (ft. Phil Edwards)

110

Black Thursday and Milan's "Silent Majority"

111

The Social Clash and the Struggle for Housing

112

"Let's Take the City!" and the Revolt of San Benedetto del Tronto (ft. Adam Weissman)

113

Reggio Revolt 2: From Popular Revolt to Mob War (ft. Danny Gold)

114

Reggio Revolt 1: The Hour of the Gun (ft. Danny Gold)

115

The Golpe Borghese: The Life and Abortive Coup of the Black Prince

116

"The Mother of All Massacres" pt. 2 (ft/ Shane Burley)

117

"The Mother of All Massacres" pt. 1 (ft. Shane Burley)

118

The Long '68

119

The Battle of Valle Giulia