The British Chinese – Hidden Generations episode is now up on our YouTube channel 👉 youtu.be/wcwWMhri8uM Please subscribe and keep your eyes peeled for brand new episodes of Origin Story starting from next week! 👀 #politics #podcast #originstory

The Rivers of Blood – How Enoch Powell Poisoned Britain episode is now up on our YouTube channel 👉 youtu.be/WDGm9lPjP7M Please subscribe to our channel for more including brand new episodes of Origin Story starting from next week ➡️ www.youtube.com/@OriginStory... #podcast #originstory #politics

“A better world is possible. How do you get there? And how does it get warped along the way? Is a massive part of the story.”
 @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social discuss the essence of socialism in our latest season. Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...

The Shostakovich and Stalin episode is now up on our new YouTube channel 👉 youtu.be/sXPeX_cG3vA Please subscribe to our channel for more episodes including brand new episodes from our new season on socialism starting from next week! #politics #podcast #originstory

🚨Season 8 – The Story of Socialism – starts today🚨 It’s arguably the most earth-shaking political concept of the last 200 years. @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social start with the idea's inception during turbulent times in the mid 1800s. Listen / watch ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

🚨We have a brand new YouTube channel!🚨 We will be posting new episodes from our new season on socialism starting from next week, so please subscribe to our channel! The ICE episode with @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social is available to watch now - youtu.be/doFECFeqvEc

🚨 Season 8 -The Story of Socialism- premiere now available exclusively for Patreon supporters 🚨 The new season from @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social kicks off with the development of socialist ideas after the French Revolution. Public release 24/09 www.patreon.com/originstorypod

🚨 New episode out 🚨 @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social chart the ups and downs of the British Chinese population. Is this immigration success story one that should be referenced more by politicians on the left? Listen / watch now ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

Don't miss @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social's look at Enoch Powell's poisonous 'Rivers of Blood' speech. It lives on in the collective memory and colours debate about immigration today. Listen / watch ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

📣 New episode out 📣 @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social discuss Enoch Powell’s so-called “Rivers of Blood” speech, the explosive political speech that brought far-right ideas into the British mainstream. Listen / watch ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

"The most consequential bad review in the history of music criticism". @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social tell the story of Shostakovich and Stalin. Listen / watch now ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

🎶 New episode out 🎶 Join @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social for Shostakovich and Stalin. How did Shostakovich manage to produce great art in a dictatorship, and what did it cost him? Listen/Watch ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

Sexual assault allegations against ICE personnel suggest widespread and systemic problems. @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social look at the current culture of ICE to see what it reveals. Listen to / watch the full episode now ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

The people ICE recruitment attracts are those who like the look of their thuggish behaviour. @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social look at how Trump's immigration enforcers have changed into what we see today. Listen to / watch the full episode: linktr.ee/originstoryp...

🧊New episode out🧊 ICE - How Trump built an American Gestapo. Masked men bundling people into unmarked cars is now a state-sponsored activity in the US. @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social ask how we got here. 🎥Video available on Spotify! Listen / watch: linktr.ee/originstoryp...

🎙️The season 7 finale is out🎙️ Martin Luther King Jr. Part 2. @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social discuss King's remarkable story. What happens when a human being becomes a symbol? How has his message been whitewashed by the right? ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

Martin Luther King Jr. supported positive discrimination but a quote from his most famous speech is often used, disingenuously, to try and support arguments against the policy. Listen to part 1 of @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social's episodes on MLK here ⬇️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

Welcome to the final topic of season seven: the extraordinary life and legacy of Dr Martin Luther King. By our standards, there’s an unusual moral clarity to this story – but that doesn’t make it straightforward. @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social discuss ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

The government is talking about growth yet again but what is it, are we measuring it right, and could we live with less of it? I'll never look at GDP the same way again.

📈NEW EPISODE📈 Growth is the world's greatest obsession. When it's booming, it makes everything easier. When it stagnates, everybody panics. But what exactly is it, what drives it and what does it cost us? @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social discuss ➡️ linktr.ee/originstorypodcast

Dreams of Mars come in many forms. Listen to @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social's episode on Mars and all the different things the Red Planet can mean to humanity. 👂 linktr.ee/originstoryp...

Afternoon, @originstorypodcast.bsky.social just dropping by to say I absolutely loved the Mars episode and I’m just about to tuck into Economic Growth episode. I FEEL SEEN! 🙌

🚀 Our first planetary deep dive explores the Red Planet’s grip on human imagination – from ancient gods to Martian canals and Muskian dreams of colonisation. Is #Mars our destiny or just a dusty delusion? 🌌 👽 With @iandunt.bsky.social & @dorianlynskey.bsky.social 🔴 Listen linktr.ee/originstoryp...

In their two-parter on Appeasement, @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social discuss lessons we need to remember in today's tense geopolitical climate ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

What insights can the appeasement of Hitler during the 1930s provide when looking at the ongoing war in Ukraine? Listen to @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social fascinating two-partner on Appeasement now ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

🤝New episode out🤝 Join @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social as they wrap up the story of Appeasement. How did Chamberlain misread Hitler’s intentions so badly? What motivated the die-hard appeasers, and the historians who defend the policy even now? Listen➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

The current conflict between India and Pakistan is deeply concerning. Interested in finding out more about the history? Listen to @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social's brilliant episodes on Partition. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2eFd... Other players: linktr.ee/originstoryp...

India at war with Pakistan? If you ever doubted that #OriginStory was your go-to source for everything that matters today, may we present…  1] #Partition – What you need to know – Part One

Today’s episode on #appeasement is one of the most timely editions we’ve done so far. Some further reading. www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...

🤝 New Episode Out 🤝 How did appeasement transform from a benign peace-making strategy into a moral and diplomatic disaster? Join @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social as they tell the story of the appeasement of Hitler’s Germany during the 1930s. Listen ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

🎤 New Episode Out 🎤 This week's show is a recording from the recent Origin Story live show at Soho 21. @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social ventured into the Trump-Musk-Vance hellscape, discussing the American inferno and ways to think about it. Listen ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

Gandhi took his views on pacifism to some extreme places. He also played a key role in the story of India's partition. Listen to @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social's fascinating episodes on Partition here ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

When it comes to the partition of India, Churchill was not the hero. He was also not @dorianlynskey.bsky.social or @iandunt.bsky.social's boy (boi?). Listen to part 1 of Partition now. Part 2 coming tomorrow. linktr.ee/originstoryp...

Origin Story is live tonight at 21 Soho and we will be streaming the show live exclusively for Patreon supporters. Join @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social at 19.30 here ⬇️ www.patreon.com/posts/live-s...

🇮🇳 New Episode Out 🇵🇰 @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social tell the story of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. To what extent did the personalities of a handful of politicians dictate the course of world history? Essential listening ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

Right to Buy was an integral part of Thatcherism. Listen to both parts of @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social's deep dive into the ideas and the person behind Thatcherism here ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

Part 2 of Thatcherism is out now. @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social pick the story up with Thatcher in full autocrat mode. Where did Thatcher succeed and fail in fundamentally changing Britain? How did she sow the seeds of Brexit? Listen➡️https://linktr.ee/originstorypodcast

When admirable qualities exist in people we don't admire. Listen to part 1 of @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social's episodes on Thatcherism now ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp.... Part 2 coming tomorrow.

Rejoice! Season 7 has begun with @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social looking at an idea that has cast a long shadow over UK politics: Thatcherism. Listen: linktr.ee/originstoryp...

🚨 New subscriber episode out 🚨 Is there any upside to the Trump administration? Are progressive activists too uncompromising? @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social answer listener questions in the last bonus episode before season 7 starts! listen⬇️ www.patreon.com/posts/patreo...

🚨 New bonus episode out 🚨 Kemi Badenoch is under the microscope for the last episode before season 7 starts next month. Listen ⬇️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

Origin Story will be LIVE at 21Soho in London on the 16th of April. Join @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social there. Tickets ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/origin-sto...

🚨New subscriber exclusive episode out🚨 @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social answer excellent questions from Patreon. "If you could be a rat living in any city during any historical event, which would you pick and when?" Where would you choose? www.patreon.com/posts/patreo...

🦹🏼‍♂️ Why actual comic book supervillains would make better presidents than Trump… well, most of them. 🦹🏽‍♀️ Enjoy our own @iandunt.bsky.social in a senses-shattering podcast #TeamUp with our sisterpod The Bunker. Features President Lex Luthor, Doctor Doom, New York Mayor the Kingpin and many more!

🤓 New subscriber exclusive episode out 🤓 It's our nerdiest episode yet. @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social bring Harold Laski, a bit part player from many previous episodes into the spotlight. It's the one you've been waiting for... ? Listen ⬇️ www.patreon.com/c/originstor...

New episode out – The Myth of Cultural Marxism. A conspiracy theory made famous by the mass murderer Anders Breivik and cited by the likes of Jordan Peterson and Suella Braverman. @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social uncover its origins. Listen ⬇️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

❓New episode out❓ Our latest release is a subscriber exclusive where @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social answer questions from Patreon supporters on topics ranging from totalitarianism to the Overton window to how they keep their spirits up. Listen ⬇️ www.patreon.com/posts/patreo...

👽New episode out👽 Doctor Who is one of the BBC's most popular programs yet it still manages to include radical and progressive themes. Join @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social as they travel through time to tell its story. Listen⬇️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

🚨New episode out🚨 Can we call it fascism yet? @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social respond to the disturbing displays at Trump's inauguration and the many similarities with fascist parties of the past. Listen ⬇️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...