Blair, power and public trust: the Iraq war 20 years on – Politics Weekly UK podcast
Next week marks 20 years since the UK joined US and coalition forces in the invasion of Iraq. The...
Blair, power and public trust: the Iraq war 20 years on – Politics Weekly UK podcast
Next week marks 20 years since the UK joined US and coalition forces in the invasion of Iraq. The...
Show 297 - The Show That Should Not Be
An audio playback glitch results in Dan not being able to work on the overdue Hardcore History...
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Show 305 - A Catalyst for the Inconceivable
Dan finds the idea of a Donald Trump presidency to be inconceivable. He also thinks a fundamental...
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The military is not known as a place to find a good meal. But our men and women in uniform are...
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Travel to Iraq Kurdistan - Episode 809
Hear about travel to Kurdistan in northern Iraq as the Amateur Traveler talks to Mansoureh...
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Inside Islamic State: meeting Umm Sayyaf, the most senior female Isis captive
Martin Chulov, the Guardian’s Middle East correspondent, tells Anushka Asthana about meeting Umm...
Iraq, Blair and Chilcot – Politics Weekly podcast
Martin Kettle, Polly Toynbee and Rafael Behr join Tom Clark to discuss the Chilcot report on the...
How the US caught up with Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
The Guardian’s Martin Chulov describes how US special forces finally tracked down Baghdadi, who...
Historical war crimes: an amnesty for British soldiers?
Defence secretary Penny Mordaunt has promised to introduce a ‘presumption against prosecution’ on...
The British spy who tried to stop the Iraq war
In the weeks leading up to the war in Iraq, Katharine Gun exposed a US plot to spy on the UN in...
How the US caught up with Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
The Guardian’s Martin Chulov describes how US special forces finally tracked down Baghdadi, who...
SecDef Donald Rumsfeld On Modernizing The Military, Saddam Hussein, Snowflakes, & Winston Churchill
My guest is former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. In his remarkable 50 year career, he...
Top Gear Cenotaph scenes should NEVER be shown. Mar 14 Pod 1
Did BBC's Top Gear presenters Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc disrespect Britain's war dead by...
War Correspondent Michael Ware On The War In Iraq & The Birth of ISIS
My guest today is Australian journalist Michael Ware. He’s a former Bagdad Bureau chief for Time...
The accidental journalist who covered the war in Iraq
Twenty years on from the invasion of Iraq, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and James Meek describe their chance...
Exposing the myth of Britain’s ‘perfect’ war against Islamic State
The UK government continues to claim that there were no civilian casualties as a result of its...
The toppling of Saddam’s statue: how the US military made a myth
In 2003, the destruction of one particular statue in Baghdad made worldwide headlines and came to...
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The legacy of Islamic State in Iraq
Two years on from the ‘liberation’ of Fallujah from Isis control, the Guardian’s Peter Beaumont...
"...it is sometimes necessary to do unpleasant things which lose a certain amount of allegiance...
Former CIA Analyst Nada Bakos Is NOT "Maya" from Zero Dark Thirty (Or So She Says!)
Nada Bakos was a CIA analyst and the Chief Targeting officer charged with finding the godfather...