Episode – 1859 : The Great Leap Forward Podcast Transcript In 1958, the People’s Republic of China instituted its second five-year plan since the revolution. Its goal was to rapidly […]
Episode – 0943 : 536: The Worst Year in History
Episode – 0943 : 536: The Worst Year in History Podcast Transcript There have been many really bad years in world history. There have been World Wars, the Black Death, […]
Episode – 0673 : The Irish Potato Famine
Episode – 0673 : The Irish Potato Famine Podcast Transcript In 1845, farmers around Europe suffered from a blight that devastated the potato crop. This lasted for several years, but […]
Episode – 0612 : Holodomor
Episode – 0612 : Holodomor Podcast Transcript In the years 1932 and 1933, one of the greatest humanitarian disasters in human history occurred in what was then the Ukrainian Soviet […]
Episode – 0423 : Behold! The Potato
Episode – 0423 : Behold! The Potato Podcast Transcript What did the first Chinese Emperor Qin, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Gengis Kahn, the Queen of Sheba, and all their […]
Episode – 0418 : The Year Without A Summer
Episode – 0418 : The Year Without A Summer Podcast Transcript In 1816, the world experienced something that it had never seen before. All over the Northern Hemisphere in Europe, […]
Episode – 0298 : The Mount Tambora Eruption
Episode – 0298 : The Mount Tambora Eruption Transcript In 1815, one of the most catastrophic and deadly events in recorded human history occurred in Indonesia. A volcanic explosion took […]