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#106 Dark make-believe - Ep 6 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum - Neoliberalism uncut

February 18, 2026 • 29 mins

Unbelievable, sinister. Milton Friedman advises apartheid South Africa that neoliberal free-market economics can solve the problems of the Soweto riots, in the same way it delivered a ‘miracle’ of liberty under the brutal dictatorship of General Pinochet in Chile. (R)

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#105 Smears, imprisonment, assassination - Ep 5 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum - Neoliberalism uncut

February 11, 2026 • 27 mins

Neoliberalism was welcomed, finally, as a way to tackle what seemed to be a breakdown in American society in the late 1960s. Big business and FBI under J Edgar Hoover felt threatened by Keynsian consensus on welfare and the eradication of poverty. They had plenty to gain by provoking the extremism, and clearing the way for Milton Friedman. (R)

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#104 Catch 22 - Ep 4 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

February 4, 2026 • 30 mins

The breakdown of American post-war consensus in the 60s calls for desperate measures on all sides: a government war in Vietnam, inner-city rioting, sex, drugs and rock and roll. Alarmed, US businesses seek salvation from the previously dismissed economic theory of neoliberal free-market capitalism. (R)

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#103 Disinformation didn't start with Donald Trump - Ep 3 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

January 28, 2026 • 34 mins

We look at the roots of free market Neoliberalism and discover that big business in the US has been championing freedom from regulation since 1895, even claiming in 1923 that the anti-child labour movement in America was secretly being run from Moscow… (R)

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#102 'The cuckoo in the Nobel nest' - Ep 2 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

January 21, 2026 • 31 mins

How did less welfare, less government regulation of business (aka neoliberalism free market) become a global ‘fashion’ without any evidence of its benefits? Something to do with an imposter ‘Nobel’ prize and a PBS TV series funded by American big business? (R)

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#101 'everything absolutely maxed out' - Ep 1 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

January 14, 2026 • 32 mins

Civil liberty is different from individual liberty. Philosophers have known this since at least the 17th Century. We explore the two fundamental fallacies of neoliberalism to show why neoliberal economics can only bring prosperity to the few, and is incapable of predicting financial crashes. Today in the USA those damaged by neoliberalism have been driven to elect an unhinged criminal... (R)

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#32 The curious case of inventing Scottishness

January 7, 2026 • 35 mins

In 1983 Professor Hugh Trevor Roper claimed that Scottishness had been invented. We enjoyably demolish Trevor Roper’s theory and reveal that the commercialisation of romantic Scottishness in the nineteenth century had far deeper and darker roots than the manufacture of tartan and romantic fiction. (R)

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#06 London fires were visible from France - Ep 6 Who really won the Battle of Britain?

December 31, 2025 • 23 mins

Who won the Battle of Britain? For good strategic reasons Churchill claimed victory. But the Germans, who saw the eight months of the Blitz as part of the same campaign, achieved much of what they intended. (R)

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#05 Forcing Britain 'to her knees' - Ep 5 Who really won the Battle of Britain?

December 24, 2025 • 25 mins

The Battle of Britain was never as close as the popular story has it. The RAF was too well organised and supplied. But is that why the Luftwaffe switched to bombing London? Or was there another reason? (R)

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#4 More than a double bluff - Ep 4 Who really won the Battle of Britain?

December 17, 2025 • 32 mins

Churchill talks up the threat of invasion, even though it looks impossible. ‘I might as well send my men straight into a sausage machine,’ writes the German Chief of Staff. But invasion preparations still go on. Who is bluffing who? (R)

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#03 'Always carry pepper to throw in their eyes' - Ep 3 Who Really won the Battle of Britain?

December 10, 2025 • 25 mins

Britain is gripped by fear of invasion. Government leaflet 'If the Invader Comes' calls for pepper and ‘a sharp knife to kill them if necessary.’ Churchill goes on BBC and says ‘we await undismayed by the impending assault. Perhaps it will come tonight.’ So why in private is Churchill saying he doubts the invasion would ever take place? (R)

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#02 A battle for air superiority? - Ep 2 Who really won the Battle of Britain?

December 3, 2025 • 29 mins

Was the Battle of Britain a fight for Luftwaffe air superiority in order to enable an invasion? The Luftwaffe itself did not think so. It had another agenda altogether. (R)

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#01 Waterworld Flotilla - Ep 1 Who really won the Battle of Britain?

November 26, 2025 • 25 mins

The Germans make extraordinary preparations for the immense task of invading Britain in 1940. Why bother when neither Hitler nor any senior German officer wanted to do it or thought it was possible?

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#118 'She will be called a man' (Jerome) - Ep 6 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church

November 19, 2025 • 39 mins

Church Father, Jerome, wrote this about women who took vows of chastity for God. ‘When she wishes to serve Christ more than the world, then she will cease to be a woman, and will be called a man.’ What now survives from the Roman Empire – and the Church in particular - only tells one, heavily redacted, medieval version of the past.

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#117 The Rich man and Melania - Ep 5 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church

November 12, 2025 • 36 mins

By AD400 all it took to be bishop was to be stratospherically wealthy. There was no demand that bishops even knew their bible until AD787.

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#116 Chariot races in church - Ep 4 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church

November 5, 2025 • 40 mins

Chariot races in church. How did we get there? 3rd Century climate change.

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#115 The Missing Women - Ep 3 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church

October 29, 2025 • 38 mins

What happened to the women? Until the late second century committed, educated women and men who perhaps space in their own homes led informal house churches. But once church leadership became a paid, public role, they were taken by the men. This was not theology. It was the way of the world.

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#114 The Missing Link - Ep 2 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church

October 22, 2025 • 31 mins

What real connection is there between the earliest, informal meetings of the first apostles and their friends, and the mighty, glitzy, authoritarian institution that mushroomed in the 4th Century, and especially after AD320? And is still here today. Is it possible that there is in reality, no direct connection at all?

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#113 Whatever happened to Saint Peter? - Ep 1 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church

October 15, 2025 • 33 mins

The Church says that Simon Peter was chosen by Jesus as the foundation of the Church. It says that Saint Peter was the first bishop of Rome and that there is a chain of direct continuity from Peter to the present pope Leo. It’s these direct links that gives the Church the right to tell its followers what to do and what to think. But is there any historical evidence?

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#16 The Men behind the Myth - Ep 7 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?

October 8, 2025 • 21 mins

Within days of 28 October 1962 two journalists publish the official but untruthful White House account, as instructed and edited by the President. They also call-out a political enemy for daring to consider a humiliating missile swap with the Soviets. But we show how the Kennedys had already suggested this very missile swap to Khrushchev via private backchannels, on condition he kept it secret. Which he did. (R)

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.css-r6mb8g{margin:0;word-break:break-word;display:-webkit-box;-webkit-box-orient:vertical;box-orient:vertical;-webkit-line-clamp:1;overflow:hidden;}#105 Smears, imprisonment, assassination - Ep 5 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum - Neoliberalism uncut

#104 Catch 22 - Ep 4 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

#103 Disinformation didn't start with Donald Trump - Ep 3 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

#102 'The cuckoo in the Nobel nest' - Ep 2 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

#101 'everything absolutely maxed out' - Ep 1 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

#32 The curious case of inventing Scottishness

#06 London fires were visible from France - Ep 6 Who really won the Battle of Britain?

#05 Forcing Britain 'to her knees' - Ep 5 Who really won the Battle of Britain?

#4 More than a double bluff - Ep 4 Who really won the Battle of Britain?

#03 'Always carry pepper to throw in their eyes' - Ep 3 Who Really won the Battle of Britain?

#02 A battle for air superiority? - Ep 2 Who really won the Battle of Britain?

#01 Waterworld Flotilla - Ep 1 Who really won the Battle of Britain?

#118 'She will be called a man' (Jerome) - Ep 6 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church

#117 The Rich man and Melania - Ep 5 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church

#116 Chariot races in church - Ep 4 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church

#115 The Missing Women - Ep 3 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church

#114 The Missing Link - Ep 2 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church

#113 Whatever happened to Saint Peter? - Ep 1 The Real-Life Magisterium: the secret history of the Roman Catholic Church

#16 The Men behind the Myth - Ep 7 Why did Kennedy cause the Cuba Missile Crisis?

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#106 Dark make-believe - Ep 6 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum - Neoliberalism uncut

#105 Smears, imprisonment, assassination - Ep 5 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum - Neoliberalism uncut