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Canada and the Spanish Civil War
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A podcast about the people, movements and events that made the Spanish Civil War a part of Canada's cultural and political history.

  1. 2019-04-22

    2.9 Jean Watts

    Kaarina and Kevin talk about Jean "Jim" Watts, who worked as a journalist, broadcaster, driver, and censor in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.

    37 min

  2. 2019-04-02

    2.8 Meet Me on the Barricades

    Kevin and Kaarina discuss Meet Me on the Barricades, a 1938 novel by Charles Yale Harrison about a big-dreaming oboe player with a passionate but passive interest in the Spanish Civil War.  In a bonus track, Kevin and Kaarina read an excerpt from Meet Me on the Barricades.

    37 min

  3. 2019-03-18

    2.7 Thomas Danek

    Kevin and Kaarina discuss the short and tragic life of Canadian volunteer Thomas Danek.

    18 min

  4. 2019-03-06

    2.6 Military Experience of the Canadian Volunteers

    Though the International Brigades provided very little military training, many volunteers brought their own experience. Kevin Levangie digs into the military backgrounds of Canadian volunteers, telling which wars they fought on, which sides they ended up on, and how their politics came up against their militarism.

    32 min

  5. 2019-02-18

    2.5 This Time a Better Podcast

    Kevin and Kaarina (re)record their conversation about This Time a Better Earth, Ted Allan's 1939 Spanish Civil War novel.

    37 min

  6. 2019-01-21

    2.4 A Real Live Military Historian

    In Part 2 of our interview with Tyler Wentzell, we talk about a whole lot of things: his research on Toronto's Standard Theatre, the Foreign Enlistment Act, canada and the Spanish Civil War from the persepctive of a military historian, and anti-fascism.

    42 min

  7. 2019-01-15

    2.3 Ed Cecil-Smith

    Part 1 of our interview with Tyler Wentzell, military historian and legal scholar. Wentzell talks about Ed Cecil-Smith, a Canadian volunteer, commanding officer in the International Brigades, and significant member of the Communist Party in Canada. He is also the subject of Wentzell's forthcoming book.  Photo from the Tamiment Library.

    54 min

  8. 2018-11-12

    2.2 The Technology of Camps

    Kaarina and Kevin talk about the kinds of camps that Canadian Spanish Civil War volunteers might have moved through: Canada's relief camps, International Brigades' disciplinary camps, Fascist Prisoner of War camps, and French refugee camps, and German concentration camps.

    1 hr
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A podcast about the people, movements and events that made the Spanish Civil War a part of Canada's cultural and political history.

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  • Creator
    Canada and the Spanish Civil War
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2019
  • Episodes
    18
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
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