The History Podcast
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Uncover new perspectives on unforgettable stories from our past. The History Podcast is the home of story-driven history series from BBC Radio 4. Each series will take you inside the most pivotal events in history, through the people who were there, to uncover new perspectives on the moments that still define us now.
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Doesn’t find the right metaphor
07/17/2024
This podcast can’t decide what it wants to be. An exciting escape drama? Or a political analysis of the Troubles? It also fails to see the obvious metaphor: prisoners were able to escape from the Maze, though people thought that was impossible. And Ireland seems to have been able to escape from the maze of conflict, thought many people had thought that too was impossible. Not everyone escaped, in either case, and in both there is the danger of ending back where one started, but one can describe a positive outcome for both prisoners and country. Lacking that metaphorical unity the podcast lurches around for a focus (from “ripples” to the obvious fact that narratives clash) and ends up imprisoned in its own negativity. It seems to criticize the British for not running a more effectively repressive prison!
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