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We Didn't Start the Fire: The History Podcast

This brand new pop culture history podcast is nothing like anything you've heard before, and it's ev

Episodes

Total: 136

Lawrence of Arabia

2022/10/23

It’s the greatest film of all time… Or is it? Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 EPIC historical drama bas

Bay of Pigs Invasion

2022/10/16

In 1961, an attack is launched on the Bay of Pigs in Cuba in an attempt to weaken Castro’s Revolutio

Berlin

2022/10/9

What would you do if you fell in love, but borders stopped you from being together? For some couples

(Bob) Dylan

2022/10/2

Tom and Katie aren't quite sure what to think about Dylan. To be honest, they kind of prefer Dylan c

The 1960s is supposed to be sci-fi’s golden age. But when we look back at some of the era's books, i

In this special second part of our Eichmann episodes, we speak to a Holocaust survivor about the hor

Eichmann (Part I)

2022/9/11

Adolf Eichmann was a Nazi bureaucrat. But the fact he's just a paper pusher,"doing his job", doesn't

Hemingway

2022/9/4

Ernest Hemingway was a radical Nobel prize winning writer who lived at the centre of Paris’ glamorou

Recorded live at the DS podcast festival in Ostend, Belgium, in early April, Katie and Tom were very

Psycho

2022/8/21

It’s the groundbreaking 1960 movie that’s essentially a cheapie slasher film… of COURSE it’s time fo

Chubby Checker

2022/8/14

Ernest Evans aka Chubby Checker is the King of the Twist! It’s the teenie bopper hit that ushered in

Kennedy

2022/8/7

FINALLY! IT'S KENNEDY! It’s 1960 and JFK has been elected president, having beaten Nixon in one of t

Payola

2022/7/31

Music is often the most fondly remembered part of the 20th century, but what we don't always remembe

Syngman Rhee

2022/7/24

Billy's back to teaching us about Korea! This time, we've hit the '60s so it's all about the America

After the American U-2 spyplane is shot down over the Soviet Union, its pilot Francis Gary Powers be

Edsel is a no-go

2022/7/10

With losses of $2 billion, it's no surprise Ford's Edsel became a meme for corporate failure. So why

Castro

2022/7/4

Castro’s the kind of guy who likes to think he’s not like other dictators. He’s the rock ’n’ roll re

Hula Hoops

2022/6/27

It’s 1958 and America is rife with fads. Everyone’s looking to make a quick buck with the next big t

Mafia

2022/6/20

It’s time for Tommy ‘The Talker’ Fordyce and Katie ‘Dimples’ Puckrik to chat Mafia. What were the mo

Space Monkey

2022/6/13

They’re the heroes of space travel who had to suffer unimaginable terror for the sake of us humans.