History Cafe

Written by: Jon Rosebank Penelope Middelboe
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  • True history storytelling at the History Café. Join BBC Historian Jon Rosebank & HBO, BBC & C4 script and series editor Penelope Middelboe as we give history a new take. Drop in to the History Café weekly on Wednesdays to give old stories a refreshing new brew. 90+ ever-green stand-alone episodes and building...

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Episodes
  • #106 Dark make-believe - Ep 6 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

    #106 Dark make-believe - Ep 6 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
    Dec 11 2024
    Unbelievable, sinister. Milton Friedman advises apartheid South Africa that neoliberal free-market economics can solve the problems of the Soweto riots, in the same way it delivered a ‘miracle’ of liberty under the brutal dictatorship of General Pinochet in Chile.

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    29 mins
  • #105 Smears, imprisonment, assassination - Ep 5 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

    #105 Smears, imprisonment, assassination - Ep 5 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
    Dec 4 2024
    Neoliberalism was welcomed, finally, as a way to tackle what seemed to be a breakdown in American society in the late 1960s. Big business and FBI under J Edgar Hoover felt threatened by Keynsian consensus on welfare and the eradication of poverty. They had plenty to gain by provoking the extremism, and clearing the way for Milton Friedman.

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    28 mins
  • #104 Catch 22 - Ep 4 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut

    #104 Catch 22 - Ep 4 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
    Nov 27 2024
    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.

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    31 mins

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