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Dr Harold Moody and the 1930s UK civil rights movement
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Kit is joined by Stephen Bourne, a historian of Black British history, to discuss Dr Harold Moody and his creation of the League of Coloured Peoples.The League was a British civil rights organisation founded in London in 1931. Dr Moody, the League's creator, had arrived in the UK from Jamaica thirty years before to study medicine at King's College …
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Marine Le Pen, the face of far-right politics in France
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12 months from the 2022 French presidential election, Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's far-right party the National Rally, is leading the sitting president Emanuel Macron in the polls.Le Pen is an ultra-conservative nationalist who blames almost all of France's problems on globalisation, immigration and Islam. Her party is a hotbed for xenopho…
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Neo-Nazis, a US village and the meaning of free speech
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In an era when the bounds of free speech seem to be a constant topic of debate, We Go Way Back examined an episode from the 1970s that tested the limits of the US Constitution.Kit speaks to Professor Philippa Strum, Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, about the time neo-Nazis tried to hold a demonstration in a sma…
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King, warrior and statesman: the story of Cetshwayo KaMpande
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In this episode, We Go Way Back brings to life the amazing story of Cetshwayo KaMpande. To do so, Tom speaks with Dr. T.J. Tallie, an assistant professor of African History at the University of San Diego in California.Cetshwayo became King of the independent African state of Zululand in 1873 and the episode follows his gripping story covering an in…
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The Dyatlov Pass Tragedy
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In 1959 nine people died in a mysterious mountaineering incident in Soviet Russia that continues to confound and intrigue onlookers.A recent Russian investigation determined that an avalanche probably led to the mountaineers' deaths, but some are still not convinced.Among the doubters is Teodora Hadjiyska, a long standing Dyatlov Pass researcher, w…
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