The 2 Best Reverberate Podcast Episodes
1) Reverberate, episode 6: The plastic people of Prague
The Plastic People of the Universe were a group of underground Czech psych-rockers known more for their outlandish stage presence than for their songs. After the Communist invasion in 1968, however, t...Show More
2) Reverberate, episode 1: Hong Kong's accidental pop star
It was the stuff of dreams: in 2013, Kashy Keegan was an unknown singer-songwriter in a sleepy English town when, out of nowhere, he became the voice of Hong Kong’s nascent pro-democracy movement. Alo...Show More
3) Reverberate, episode 5: Birmingham's bhangra revolution
Racism, riots and political upheaval seemed to be spreading like wildfire in Britain in the 1980s. In that increasingly hostile environment, the ‘daytimers’ – mostly south Asian teenagers who skipped ...Show More
4) Reverberate, episode 4: the bloody symphony of Leningrad
In 1942, the city we now call St Petersburg had been under siege by Nazi troops for months. With hundreds of thousands starving to death and the prospect of victory looking bleak, Soviet leaders tried...Show More
5) Reverberate, episode 3: the call and response that changed Cairo
Ten years ago the Arab spring spread into north Africa’s biggest country as more than a million Egyptians, enraged by police brutality and a collapsing economy, took over Tahrir Square – the heart of ...Show More
6) Reverberate, episode 2: Rick Astley versus the dictator of Panama
Christmas, 1989: the White House has sent troops to depose Manuel Noriega. But the Panamanian dictator has holed up in the Vatican embassy. So the US military turns to a new ‘psy-ops’ tool: it points ...Show More
7) Reverberate: a new podcast from the Guardian – coming soon...
The Guardian’s Chris Michael explores incredible stories from around the world about when music shook history. Our first episode – which tells the story of an unlikely pop star who accidentally became...Show More