Episodes

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

    #104 Catch 22 - Ep 4 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
    Feb 4 2026
    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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    31 mins
  • #103 Disinformation didn't start with Donald Trump - Ep 3 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

    #103 Disinformation didn't start with Donald Trump - Ep 3 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
    Jan 28 2026
    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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    34 mins
  • #102 'The cuckoo in the Nobel nest' - Ep 2 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

    #102 'The cuckoo in the Nobel nest' - Ep 2 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
    Jan 21 2026
    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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    31 mins
  • #101 'everything absolutely maxed out' - Ep 1 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

    #101 'everything absolutely maxed out' - Ep 1 Lunatics Take Over The Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
    Jan 14 2026
    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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    33 mins
  • #32 The curious case of inventing Scottishness

    #32 The curious case of inventing Scottishness
    Jan 7 2026
    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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    36 mins
  • #06 London fires were visible from France - Ep 6 Who really won the Battle of Britain?

    #06 London fires were visible from France - Ep 6 Who really won the Battle of Britain?
    Dec 31 2025
    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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    24 mins
  • #05 Forcing Britain 'to her knees' - Ep 5 Who really won the Battle of Britain?

    #05 Forcing Britain 'to her knees' - Ep 5 Who really won the Battle of Britain?
    Dec 24 2025
    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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    25 mins
  • #4 More than a double bluff - Ep 4 Who really won the Battle of Britain?

    #4 More than a double bluff - Ep 4 Who really won the Battle of Britain?
    Dec 17 2025
    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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    32 mins