Journey Through Time

• 34. Cotton Will Bring The World To its Knees: The Craziest Gamble in History (Ep 3)

  Why did the Confederate states think that stopping the global supply of cotton would force Britain to join their side in the American Civil War? What extraordinary humanitarian effort did the Union pull off to help starving mill workers in Lancashire? Why were Liverpudlians building warships to support of the slave owning states?  Join David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell as they discuss the Southern State’s King Cotton Gamble during The American Civil War. Email: [email protected]  X: @ThroughTimePod Blue Sky: @ThroughTimePod Instagram: @ThroughTimePod Social Producer: Emma Jackson, Harry Balden Assistant Producer: Alice Horrell Producer: Callum Hill Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 33. Prince Albert’s Dying Wish: Stopping An American-British War (Ep 2)

  Why did Britain and America nearly go to war over the capture of two Confederate officers from a British Ship? What did President Lincoln’s Emergency War Cabinet respond to Britain’s threatening ultimatum? How did Prince Albert keep the peace with the last letter he ever sent?  Join Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga as they discuss the Trent Affair of 1861.  Email: [email protected]  X: @ThroughTimePod Blue Sky: @ThroughTimePod Instagram: @ThroughTimePod Social Producer: Emma Jackson Assistant Producer: Alice Horrell Producer: Callum Hill Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 32. From Lincoln to Obama: A History of the Special Relationship (Ep 1)

  David has just come off stage with Barack Obama - what does the 44th President think about the ‘Special Relationship’ between the UK and the US? What is the history of this relationship? What about during the American Civil war when the two countries very nearly went to war? Join David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell as they explore a darker chapter in the relationship between Britain and America.  Email: [email protected]  X: @ThroughTimePod Blue Sky: @ThroughTimePod Instagram: @ThroughTimePod Social Producer: Emma Jackson Assistant Producer: Alice Horrell Producer: Callum Hill Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 31. Martin Luther King: I Have A Dream (Ep 2)

  Harry Belafonte, Josephine Baker, Bob Dylan, and which other celebrities joined the 250,000 marching on Washington in August 1963? How were the American Nazi Party planning to incite violence? How did Martin Luther King improvise the most famous speech of the 20th century?  Join Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga as they explore the ‘I Have a Dream’ speech and enduring its legacy.  Email: [email protected]  X: @ThroughTimePod Blue Sky: @ThroughTimePod Instagram: @ThroughTimePod Social Producer: Emma Jackson Assistant Producer: Alice Horrell Producer: Callum Hill Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 30. The March That Changed America (Ep 1)

  How were figures like Martin Luther King organising to fight for Civil Rights in the Jim Crow era? Why were tensions so exceptionally high in America in 1963? What caused hundreds of thousands of people from all over the country to descend on Washington that August?  Join David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell as they look at the events leading up to the 1963 March on Washington, one of the most consequential rallies for Human Rights in America’s history.  Email: [email protected]  X: @ThroughTimePod Blue Sky: @ThroughTimePod Instagram: @ThroughTimePod Social Producer: Emma Jackson Assistant Producer: Alice Horrell Producer: Callum Hill Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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