THIS MONTH IN HISTORY Podcast
1) Battle of Hong Kong Special
A one-legged Chinese Admiral and triad vigilantes make the most out of the period during the Battle of Hong Kong when the Imperial Japanese Army held the mainland side of the water and the British/Ind...Show More
2) 1956 – Hungary and Mao
Mao pokes his nose into Hungary in 1956 and concludes, "Eastern Europe just didn’t kill on a grand scale…We must kill." Paul Letters is a historian, journalist, educator and novelist. See paulletters...Show More
3) Nazis invite USSR into Axis Alliance
Noreen and I visit Berlin in November 1940 where Stalin’s Foreign Minister, Molotov, is wooed by Ribbentrop and Hitler: they want the USSR, already in bed with Germany in the Molotov-Ribbentrop (or Na...Show More
4) Sun Yat-sen and the 1911 Chinese Revolution
Noreen and Paul delve into the reasons why China discarded their emperors and empresses for an unemployable medical doctor - and why he handed rule to an opportunist who makes Donald Trump look shy. ...Show More
5) Trump v Clinton v 1960
Noreen and I examine the rhetoric of the first presidential debates, in 1960, compared with 2016 Trump v Clinton. We consider whether 'civility' was or is an important trait in US presidential candida...Show More
6) USA, Taiwan and Mao goes nuclear
We focus on the Taiwan Strait Crises of the 1950s and how close the world came to nuclear war. We see how the tail wagged the dog as little Taiwan bent the US to its will in the 1950s. And, throughout...Show More
7) Madman Nuclear Alert 1969
We look at war between the two communist giants, the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union – a conflict which began in March 1969. And we’re going to be joined by a special guest who, as a U...Show More
8) Filipinos ‘massacre’ Americans / How Chiang Kai-shek threw away China
Our irregular guest historian Bruce Gordon joins us. As well as being an eye witness to the Pearl Harbor attack, a US air force pilot in Vietnam and Korea and - inadvertently - saving the planet from ...Show More
9) WW3:Cuba / The living pop star who ‘died’ in 1969 / WW2 China v China v Japan [sic]
Why World War III didn’t happen – when it looked odds on in October 1962. And we look at the three-way war in China in 1940. We investigate the 'evidence' that made the world believe a famous pop sta...Show More
10) JFK v Nixon / Why Japan joined the Axis powers / Sporting cheats
We look at the first US presidential election debate in history, and we’ll see how an afternoon by a hotel pool helps win that election and save humanity from World War III. And we examine what provo...Show More