ClandesTime 169 – Margaret Thatcher and the Entertainment Industry
The British government’s role in using the entertainment industry is smaller than in America, but...
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ClandesTime 169 – Margaret Thatcher and the Entertainment Industry
The British government’s role in using the entertainment industry is smaller than in America, but...
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ClandesTime 170 – An Alternative History of Al Qaeda: Anwar al Awlaki
Anwar al Awlaki rose to notoriety in the 2000s as a leading internet jihadist whose lectures and...
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Subscriber Podcast #28 – Panorama Breakdown: The Skripal Affair
In this month’s subscriber-only podcast I break down the BBC’s Panorama episode on the Skripal...
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ClandesTime 173 – Public Enemies
Public Enemies is a 2009 historical drama/thriller film that tells the story of the Bureau of...
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ClandesTime 176 – What Vice Doesn’t Tell You about Dick Cheney
Vice has won awards along with praise from audiences and critics alike, but how well does it...
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Subscriber Podcast #29 – Media Breakdown: Armando Iannucci at Chatham House
On this month's subscriber-only podcast I break down a 2016 interview with British political...
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ClandesTime 177 – Ice Station Zebra
While it is now considered a Cold War classic Ice Station Zebra was a flop when it was first...
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ClandesTime 179 – The Philosophy and Politics of Superman
Superman is one of the world’s most recognisable cultural icons. A symbol of human idealism, he...
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Subscriber Podcast #32 – The Looming Tower
On this feature-length subscriber podcast I analyse the Hulu TV drama The Looming Tower (based on...
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Subscriber Podcast #33 – American Moon
Did we really go to the moon? Yes, probably, but American Moon is an epic 3 1/2 hour documentary...
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ClandesTime 189 – An Alternative History of Al Qaeda: Omar Nasiri
Omar Nasiri was a Moroccan who spent 6 years spying on Al Qaeda for several European intelligence...
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ClandesTime 191 – The ‘Disguised’ Political Film in Hollywood
Why isn’t the ‘political film’ a genre of cinema? Hollywood puts out a consistent stream of...
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Subscriber Podcast #35 – China, Censorship and South Park
Over the last few weeks a storm has been brewing about the Chinese government’s censorship of...
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Subscriber Podcast #36 – The LAPD’s Hollywood Office
Just like many federal agencies the Los Angeles Police Department have a dedicated entertainment...
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ClandesTime 198 – The Day Shall Come
The Day Shall Come is the latest film from Chris Morris, the maker of Four Lions, and tells the...
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Subscriber Podcast #37 – The CIA, Torture and Hollywood
Perhaps the most insidious rewriting of recent history by Hollywood is Zero Dark Thirty‘s...
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Subscribercast #38 – The Negotiator and Israel’s Nuclear Smuggling Ring
When you think of radical or counter-establishment films the 1998 thriller The Negotiator...
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ClandesTime 200 – Extravaganza
To mark the 200th episode of this podcast I decided to combine several ideas into an open buffet...
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ClandesTime 201 – Thirteen Days and the Cuban Missile Crisis
In 1962 the US and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear war during the Cuban Missile...
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