What are the real stories behind the most misunderstood and abused ideas in politics? From Conspiracy Theory to Woke to Centrism and beyond, Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey dig into the astonishing secret histories of concepts you thought you knew. Want to support us in making future seasons? There are now two ways you can help out: • Patreon – Get early episodes, live Zooms, merchandise and more from just £5 per month. • Apple Podcasts – Want everything in one place with one easy payment? Subsc ...
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The police tell us they are here to protect us. But what if their original purpose was something else altogether? Peabody Award-winning host Chenjerai Kumanyika takes listeners on a journey to uncover the hidden history of the largest police force in the world – from its roots in slavery, to rival police gangs battling across the city, to everyday people who resisted every step of the way. As our society debates where policing is going, Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD explor ...
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The story of how Eric Rewinkel imagined and started eSopris
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Find out how your favorite musicans got to where they are today. Interviews with musicians of all genres. Follow us on twitter @origstrypodcast
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Has Hollywood ruined your favorite comic book franchise? Don't fret, because Not Another Origin Story is here to critique the plot-holes, commend the casting, and certify the source material. Comedians Ben and Pogues, along with a passionate guest or two, assemble with their best jokes and sharpest opinions to take on every comic book film one by one. Subscribe today so you can download, listen, comment, and argue with us! New episodes Thursdays.
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The Origin Story is a fortnightly podcast hosted by Paven Gill. The main goal of the show is going through the origin stories of people that fascinate or inspire me and putting their stories out in the world in order to show that everyone has dealt with pain and struggle no matter who they are. Understanding that pain and struggle is the thing that connects everyone and the legacy you leave is the only thing that matters. "Everybody is going to die how you get there is up to you"
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Welcome to Lioness Origin Story, a special mini-series podcast presented by the Veterans Breakfast Club. Each week co-hosts Shannon Morgan, Army Lioness Vet, and Daria Sommers, Filmmaker/Writer, present, along with special guests, true stories of women who participated in Team Lioness. The goal is to provide an historical counter to Taylor Sheridan’s fictional Special Ops: Lioness. As the hosts and their guests trace the evolution of Lioness Teams into Female Engagement Teams and Cultural Su ...
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The Daily Mail – Part two – Paper Tigers
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• Give or get 20% off annual Patreon backing for Origin Story in our Black Friday sale •Fill in our listener survey for a chance to win an exclusive Origin Story t-shirt. Welcome to part two of the story of the Daily Mail. We pick things up with the disastrous reign of Esmond Harmsworth and his wife Ann, aka “the Monster”. The paper loses direction…
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The New York City Housing Authority is the biggest public housing program in the country. But with limited funding to address billions of dollars of outstanding repairs, NYCHA is turning to a controversial plan to change how public housing operates. Fanta Kaba of WNYC's Radio Rookies brings the story of how this will affect residents and the future…
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The Daily Mail – Part one – Barons and Blackshirts
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• Give or get 20% off annual Patreon backing for Origin Story in our Black Friday sale •Fill in our listener survey for a chance to win an exclusive Origin Story t-shirt. Welcome to the season finale of Origin Story. We put it to the vote and Patreon supporters chose the Daily Mail — the newspaper that loves to hate, and be hated. We thought this w…
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The BBC – Part two – Balancing act
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• Give or get 20% off annual Patreon backing for Origin Story in our Black Friday sale • Fill in our listener survey for a chance to win an exclusive Origin Story t-shirt. Welcome to part two of the story of the BBC. The Second World War is over, radio is booming and television is back. The BBC is stronger than ever, with new talent, new formats an…
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The BBC – Part one – Inform, educate, entertain
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• Give or get 20% off annual Patreon backing for Origin Story in our Black Friday sale •Fill in our listener survey for a chance to win an exclusive Origin Story t-shirt. So far this season we’ve had to deal with Russell Brand and Benjamin Netanyahu, and we’ve got the Daily Mail coming up, so we all deserve a more uplifting tale. This week we comme…
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Sharing an episode from Scene on Radio's acclaimed Season 2 series, Seeing White, by John Biewen and featuring Empire City host and creator, Chenjerai Kumanyika. For centuries, white supremacist U.S. culture has raised the specter of the dangerous Black man. Biewen tells the story of a confrontation with a Black teenager, then he and Kumanyika disc…
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Benjamin Netanyahu – Part two – Divide and conquer
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• Give or get 20% off annual Patreon backing for Origin Story in our Black Friday sale. •Fill in our listener survey for a chance to win an exclusive Origin Story t-shirt. This week we complete the story of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s most politically successful prime minister — and its most divisive. We pick up the story in 1996, with Netanyahu’s…
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Benjamin Netanyahu – Part one – Making enemies
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• Give or get 20% off annual Patreon backing for Origin Story in our Black Friday sale. •Fill in our listener survey for a chance to win an exclusive Origin Story t-shirt. This week we commence the story of Benjamin Netanyahu. The 75-year-old has become Israel’s longest serving prime minister despite never winning the love of his people, his intern…
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US Post-Election Live Show – Part Two
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• Give or get 20% off annual Patreon backing for Origin Story in our Black Friday sale. •Fill in our listener survey for a chance to win an exclusive Origin Story t-shirt. Part two of Ian and Dorian’s post-Presidential Election show at the Tabernacle in West London, recorded on the 7th of November. After signing books (have we mentioned there are O…
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• Give or get 20% off annual Patreon backing for Origin Story in our Black Friday sale •Fill in our listener survey for a chance to win an exclusive Origin Story t-shirt. Part one of Ian and Dorian’s post-Presidential Election show at the Tabernacle in West London, recorded on the 7th of November. The show turned into a group therapy session, after…
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Artificial Intelligence – Part Two – Skynet’s the limit
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•Fill in our listener survey for a chance to win an exclusive Origin Story t-shirt. The final episode of our two-part story of Artificial Intelligence. Having looked at the emergence and development of AI in part one we now turn to the future and assess the dangers and possibilities it raises. We weigh up two arguments concerning existential risk. …
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•Fill in our listener survey for a chance to win an exclusive Origin Story t-shirt. It can seem like conspiracy theories have travelled at warp speed from the eccentric margins to the heart of modern politics. But in fact conspiracism has always been one of history’s darkest forces, from the witch hunts to the Holocaust. In this exclusive audiobook…
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Artificial Intelligence – Part One – Deus ex machina
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•Fill in our listener survey for a chance to win an exclusive Origin Story t-shirt. This week we begin the story of Artificial Intelligence. Since the launch of Chat-GPT in late 2022, we have been more excited, and anxious, about AI than ever before. It’s become a daily obsession. But the key question we are grappling with is the same as ever: can …
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New York’s Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted and charged by the federal government with corruption, wire fraud, bribery and more. Could we have predicted what kind of mayor Adams would become based on the culture he was a part of in the NYPD? Chenjerai and attorney John Teufel, who has investigated police misconduct, discuss the implications of th…
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The Suffragettes – Part Two – By any means necessary
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•Fill in our listener survey for a chance to win an exclusive Origin Story t-shirt. This week we finish the story of the suffragettes. We pick up the narrative in 1912, when parliament’s failure to deliver women’s suffrage triggered a new phase of violent escalation. No suffragette was more extreme than Emily Wilding Davison, whose death at the hoo…
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"Woop! Woop! That’s the sound of da police! Conscious and Frankie welcome Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika – host of Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD. Dr. Kumanyika’s podcast is a deeply personal tale of his relationship to policing, the history of the NYPD and its long reaching impact in police departments across the nation. Are the police …
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The Suffragettes – Part one – Deeds not words
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•Fill in our listener survey for a chance to win an exclusive Origin Story t-shirt. This week we begin the tumultuous story of the suffragettes. In 1903, Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst founded the Women’s Social and Political Union. Sick of waiting in vain for women’s suffrage, they decided to secure it by hook or by crook. By 1906, the so-calle…
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The NYPD loves to show off its diversity, but it often hides how hard and long it fought that diversity. Chenjerai takes us back in time to the real story of how the NYPD got its first Black cop – and how decades later, Black cops went to war with the NYPD’s union to push for civilian oversight of the police. But how effective is reform if the poli…
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Russell Brand – Confidence man
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•Fill in our listener survey for a chance to win an exclusive Origin Story t-shirt. What the hell happened to Russell Brand? Ten years ago, the comedian and actor was the loudest voice on the British left as his florid calls for spiritual and political revolution won him the support of politicians and journalists. Now he is a full-time conspiracy t…
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New York’s police start to realize that beating up and arresting immigrants is making them distrustful of cops. In response, a police chief has an idea, borne out of his time colonizing the Philippines: control the population by recruiting local community members to police their own people. From Wondery, Crooked Media and PushBlack. Empire City is …
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Sex! Violence! Censorship! These days the British Board of Film Classification rarely makes headlines but it was on the cultural frontlines throughout the 20 th century, from Herbert Asquith and the dawn of British cinema to Mary Whitehouse and “video nasties”. Through the turbulent life of one institution, Ian takes Dorian through a century of mor…
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It’s like clockwork: every 20 years or so, a corruption scandal forces the NYPD into the hot seat. But how did this cycle begin? To find out, we go back over a century ago to the very first investigation into the police where the NYPD is put on trial like never before. From Wondery, Crooked Media and PushBlack. Empire City is made with a commitment…
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Pogues is here with a special announcement.Por Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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Officers in early New York didn’t just police the city’s vice economy; they profited from it. But when America’s first professional vice fighter Anthony Comstock strong-arms the NYPD into enforcing his vision of morality, he also transformed how and what we police. From Wondery, Crooked Media and PushBlack. Empire City is made with a commitment to …
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Emmanuel Macron is one of the most fascinating and infuriating figures in 21st century politics. Seven years ago, the philosopher-statesman shredded France’s status quo by seizing the presidency at the helm of a brand new centrist party. But his achievements, at home and abroad, have not lived up to his grand visions and his summer election gamble …
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Horrific race riots erupt when New York City starts to draft soldiers into the Civil War. A mob of white people, who resent fighting for emancipation, direct their rage at the Black community as well as the police… and all hell breaks loose. The NYPD pushes for more firearms – but will they use them to protect New York’s most vulnerable, or subdue …
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Ben and Pogues watch City Hunter. They talk lack of plot, more interesting side characters, and deep dive too much on the Street Fighter fight scene.Por Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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New York’s power-hungry mayor weaponizes the police to help him control the city – and bulldoze a thriving Black community for his own real estate profits. The state, fearing that the mayor and his police have become too strong, wage a war for control – and create their own rival force. From Wondery, Crooked Media and PushBlack. Empire City is made…
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Ben and Pogues and a Chun Li Jackie ChanPor Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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Before the NYPD existed, New Yorkers strongly opposed the idea of an armed police force – until a powerful news publisher changed everything. After a grisly murder takes place, the city’s newspapers sensationalize the story, blame the cops, and a new force is born. But will these cops work to solve the case or will they spend their days hunting som…
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Chenjerai takes us back to the summer of 1835, when Black New Yorkers are being kidnapped and sold into slavery in the south. But their friends and families can’t call the cops, because it turns out the kidnappers are the cops…can a group of Black resistance fighters stop it? From Wondery, Crooked Media and PushBlack. Empire City is made with a com…
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Ben and Pogues watch Speed Racer. They talk neon lights, annoying kids, wasted races and question if that kid had ever even heard of air guitar.Por Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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Minisode. Speed Racer.Por Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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Over the past eight years, the word “gaslighting” has transformed from an obscure term in psychiatric literature into a ubiquitous buzzword to describe the kind of deceit that makes you feel like you’re losing your mind. But are we using it correctly? What explains its sudden popularity? And is it entirely wise to import a psychological term into t…
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The police tell us they are here to protect us. But what if their original purpose was something else altogether? Peabody Award-winning host Chenjerai Kumanyika takes listeners on a journey to uncover the hidden history of the largest police force in the world – from its roots in slavery, to rival police gangs battling across the city, to everyday …
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Ben, Pogues, and guest Mike Hayes watch Dr. Giggles. They talk failed doctor puns, knock off Freddie Prince Jr., wasted kill scenes, and one of the most disturbing scenes in comic movie history.Por Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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it's a mini you filthy animals.Por Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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The Battle of Cable Street on 4 October 1936 has been described as “the greatest anti-fascist victory on British soil”. It is certainly the most mythologised, most recently inspiring massive anti-fascist protests in British cities. But what actually happened that day? Who exactly was doing the battling? And did this display of working-class solidar…
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NAOS #191 - Venom Let There Be Carnage
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Ben and Pogues watch Venom Let There Be Carnage. They talk lack of character development, confusing wigs, and the failure of the romcom.Por Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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Racist violence has inflamed several British cities this past week. Should we call the events protests, riots or pogroms? Are the participants actual fascists or ordinary citizens with “legitimate concerns”? And how did the fiction of “two-tier policing” go from extremists to broadcasters in a couple of days? Ian and Dorian analyse how the language…
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Minisode with a special guestPor Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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Origin Story Post-Election Special – Live in Islington
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Couldn’t make it to the Origin Story live show in London on Monday 15 July? Don’t worry, we’ve got audio for you. Listen up as Dorian and Ian take one last wallow in the glory of Election Night ’24… think about what might be in store for some of our favourite bad losers… see how the events of the campaign relate to the subjects of our past series… …
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Ben and Pogues watch Dylan Dog: Dead of Night. They talk terrible monster effects, excessive zombie backstories, and question if they can remember any of the plot.Por Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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The Rushdie Affair – Blasphemous Rumours
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The final episode of season five covers the Rushdie Affair. On 14 February 1989, the Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa against Salman Rushdie made The Satanic Verses the most famous novel in the world — for all the wrong reasons. The controversy had far-reaching implications for free speech, international relations and the political identity of British Mu…
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Keir Starmer – PM Dawn
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The season five finale coincides with the general election, so we’ve decided to get very topical indeed with the story of Labour leader and likely prime minister Keir Starmer. To his admirers, he’s the master strategist who took Labour from doom to Downing Street in a single term. To his foes, he’s a ruthless liar who will stop at nothing to crush …
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Ben pogues. Dogs of a Dylan variety.Por Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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Anti-vaxxers – Herd impunity
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This episode tells the tale of the anti-vaxxers. The word has only been around since 2001 but inoculation has inspired opposition for as long as it has existed in the West. Dorian and Ian chart the life of vaccines and their opponents from the fight against smallpox in the eighteenth century to the vaccine scandals of the post-war decades. Find out…
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NAOS #189 - The Marvels
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Ben and Pogues watch The Marvels. They talk Space Balls, generic bad guys, wish the fights were better and wonder what exactly happened to the people on the singing planet?Por Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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Genocide – Part Two – The search for justice
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The war in Gaza has led to accusations of genocide but that word operates on two levels. It’s both a strict legal term that has to be adjudicated by the International Criminal Court and an informal expression of moral outrage. The definition has been contested ever since the word was invented by the lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1944, in the furnace of …
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Genocide – Part One – The ultimate crime
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The war in Gaza has led to accusations of genocide but that word operates on two levels. It’s both a strict legal term that has to be adjudicated by the International Criminal Court and an informal expression of moral outrage. The definition has been contested ever since the word was invented by the lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1944, in the furnace of …
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