Origin Story
What are the real stories behind the most misunderstood and abused ideas in politics? From Conspiracy Theory to Woke to Centrism and beyond, Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey dig into the astonishing secret histories of concepts you thought you knew.
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Previous Episodes
- Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin – Part One – Revolution
- Karl Marx – Part Two – The Father
- Karl Marx – Part One – The Fighter
- The Birth of Socialism – A Better World is Possible
- The British Chinese – Hidden generations
- Rivers of Blood – How Enoch Powell poisoned Britain
- Shostakovich and Stalin – The Composer and the Dictator
- ICE – How Trump built an American Gestapo
- Martin Luther King Jr. – Part Two – Owning the dream
- Martin Luther King Jr. – Part One – Eyes on the Prize
- Growth – GDP is the Magic Number
- Mars – The Next Frontier?
- Appeasement – Part Two – Betrayal
- Appeasement – Part One – The Bitter Cup
- Origin Story Live at 21 Soho – Grand Theft America
- Partition – Part Two – Dividing Lines
- Partition – Part One – Before Midnight
- Thatcherism – Part Two – Imperial phase
- Thatcherism – Part One – Birth of a Notion
- Kemi Badenoch – Identity crisis
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