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Cam & Ray's Cold War Podcast Cameron Reilly & Ray Harris
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If you were alive from 1945 - 1990, the Cold War was an ever-present reality. We grew up being told that the world could end any minute - and you probably wouldn't know it was coming until it hit. On this series we're going DEEP on the Cold War - why it happened, how it happened and where it left us. As with our other hit podcast series, this show contains heavy doses of bad language, irreverent humour and singalongs.
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“Empire By Invitation”
European recipients of the Marshall Plan funds were quite clear to the USA that they needed help keeping the socialists down and out of their countries. And the USA recognized that its own economic welfare rested on the revival of Europe. Funding a pro-capitalist European recovery was a matter of national self-interest.
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The Creation of NATO
We want to take a break from Korea to talk about the creation of NATO. Obviously relevant with the whole Ukraine situation. And it took on a new kind of mission during the Korean War. But let’s go back and look at where it came from.
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The Double Life of Katharine Clark
Today we're talking to Katharine Gregorio, author of "The Double Life of Katharine Clark, The Untold Story of the American Journalist Who Brought the Truth about Communism to the West". Clark was her great-aunt, a foreign correspondent who, while posted in Belgrade in the mid-1950s, befriended Milovan Djilas, the former heir apparent to Tito in Yugoslavia and author of the classic "Conversations with Stalin", which Clark helped get published in the West, at great risk to herself and her husband.
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Taiwan Part 4
This is part four of our recent chat about the history of China and Taiwan with James Shone, a teacher who has lived and worked in Taiwan for over a decade. He’s recently started a podcast about the history of Taiwan - https://taiwanthroughtime.com/.
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Fugitives by Danny Orbach
Dr. Danny Orbach is an Associate professor in general history and East Asian studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His new book, Fugitives, is a history of Nazi mercenaries during the Cold War
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Taiwan Part 3
This is part three of our recent chat about the history of China and Taiwan with James Shone, a teacher who has lived and worked in Taiwan for over a decade. He’s recently started a podcast about the history of Taiwan - https://taiwanthroughtime.com/.
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An epic in every sense of the word.
At times you may forget you are listening to a cold war podcast as much of the early episodes deal with the end of the second world war. But of course this setup is both needed and apprieciated, giving us an incredibly deep context that sets the stage with all its actors and set pieces. If this seems tedious to you, have no fear as Cam and Ray carries us forward through the history with a great deal of laughter and jokes (not suitable for inlaws, your stuck-up boss or boring people). If nothing else excites you, at the very least you must listen to the fabulous character portrayals of Churchill, Stalin and FDR. It certainly got me hooked!
The Limoncello is strong with this one
Currently in the depths of wirting my master's thesis, Cam & Ray are keeping me sane through an insightful and witty journey across the cold war (and beyond) can't reccomend it enough, great stuff!!