The Long View Podcast
Jonathan Freedland presents the series in which stories from the past are compared with current events.
Episodes to download
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John Thurloe, Cromwell's postmaster, and the interception of mail
Tue 22 Dec 2015
Today's debates about online privacy have 17th-century precedents. With Jonathan Freedland
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Today's crisis in dairy farming and the wheat crisis of the 1930s
Tue 29 Sep 2015
Jonathan Freedland compares the current milk crisis with the 1930s wheat crisis.
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Vietnamese refugees in 1979
Tue 22 Sep 2015
Jonathan Freedland compares Britain's responses to refugees from Vietnam and Syria.
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The Long View of Popularising Exploration
Tue 15 Sep 2015
History series in which stories from the past shed light on the present.
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The Living Wage
Tue 8 Sep 2015
Jonathan Freedland examines today's 'living wage' in the light of a treatise from 1894.
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Military Drones and the 'Robo-planes' of the 1940s
Fri 22 Jul 2016
Military drones today and the Nazi V1 and V2 weapons. With Jonathan Freedland
