Quote from: TobyD on October 16, 2020, 08:51:43 amThe Fault LineA very slickly made and presented podcast (as you'd expect from a Dimbleby) about the Iraq War. Not surprisingly, a considerably more nuanced situation than many people realise. Interviews with people like Christopher Meyer and Blair are particularly interesting. On episode 3 of this. Really well done and very easy to listen to. Some really interesting perspectives and not just focusing on did Blair lie etc...
The Fault LineA very slickly made and presented podcast (as you'd expect from a Dimbleby) about the Iraq War. Not surprisingly, a considerably more nuanced situation than many people realise. Interviews with people like Christopher Meyer and Blair are particularly interesting.
Is there only 4? For some reason I thought it was 8??
Thanks for the heads up about Towton. Shall definitely check it out. Have just covered that part of the War of the Roses in the podcast!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000nkv7Brilliant spooky techno, if you like that sort of thing!
Quote from: TobyD on November 12, 2020, 07:43:22 amhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000nkv7Brilliant spooky techno, if you like that sort of thing!Listening now - nice find!
I think it was mentioned on the film thread a while ago but I still really love The Rewatchables podcast.Funny, informative; reminds me why its ok to just love movies as well as proper films.
My mate Al hosts a podcast called Chart Music in which he co-ordinates two of a panel of five of his mates who used to write for the Melody Maker in meticulously dissecting an old episode of Top of the Pops.It’s frequently hilarious and in my experience the more you listen the more you get into the pundits and their lifestories and it leads you to start thinking about all sorts of aspects of music and pop culture that had either passed you by, you’d forgotten or you’d never taken seriously as well as getting a new perspective on stuff you thought you fully understood. As they’ve got into the groove of making the show and Al’s come up with ever more ways to set the historical context, each episode seems to get longer than the last (the new one is over 6 hours long) and gradually listening to them all in sequence has played a big part in staying sane over the last 12 months for me.
I would recommend the The Socially Distant Sports Bar podcast. Basically three Welsh blokes (a mix of sport journalists and comedians) chatting bollocks about various historical sport events, but spinning off into all sorts of hilarious nonsense. Dead funny and interesting. I've become a regular listener.https://open.spotify.com/show/32TCAZClErWNRfDoI2YD2d
Quote from: Fultonius on October 16, 2020, 10:55:21 amQuote from: TobyD on October 16, 2020, 08:51:43 amThe Fault LineA very slickly made and presented podcast (as you'd expect from a Dimbleby) about the Iraq War. Not surprisingly, a considerably more nuanced situation than many people realise. Interviews with people like Christopher Meyer and Blair are particularly interesting. I take it Blair is still lying through his teeth? Does he get pressed much on the dodgy dossier etc?It's rather more interesting than that. Have a listen and find out.
Quote from: TobyD on October 16, 2020, 08:51:43 amThe Fault LineA very slickly made and presented podcast (as you'd expect from a Dimbleby) about the Iraq War. Not surprisingly, a considerably more nuanced situation than many people realise. Interviews with people like Christopher Meyer and Blair are particularly interesting. I take it Blair is still lying through his teeth? Does he get pressed much on the dodgy dossier etc?
The latest series of Intrigue on the BBC is called Mayday and explores The White Helmets and the misinformation surrounding them. Fairly essential listening considering that only a year ago there were links posted on this thread to conspiracy theorist websites helping to prop up the Russian/Assad narrative that they are a Jihadi group.It made me seethe at times. What really struck home was the idea that, since the catastrophe of the Iraq war, public confidence in institutions has been eroded so much that lots of well-meaning people in the West are prepared to buy into the alternative narratives that serve the interests of those who drop bombs and chemical weapons on small children.
Christ. I just spent 5 mins getting lost in that miasma of utter garbage of a conspiracy theory blog by that guy Craig Murray. Had never heard of him before and hopefully never will again. It all just strikes me as typical conspiracy theory garbage that sounds very convincing and has lots of threads all linking stuff together in a seemingly plausible manner. Next minute you start believing that there were no moon landings and that 911 was a conspiracy by the CIA and that the towers could never have fallen down just by being hit by planes.