User:Surfedge225/Revolutions (Podcast) Draft
| Revolutions | |
|---|---|
| Presentation | |
| Hosted by | Mike Duncan |
| Genre | History |
| Language | English |
| Length | Usually 15-45 minutes |
| Production | |
| Audio format | MP3 |
| No. of episodes | 277 (as of 6th June 2021) |
| Publication | |
| Original release | September 15, 2013 – ongoing |
Revolutions is a podcast created by Mike Duncan, covering ten modern political revolutions, beginning with the English Revolution. Each season is dedicated to one revolution or revolutionary wave and discusses the revolution through a chronological narrative approach, whilst occasionally having supplementary episodes covering a particular person or topic, while others are verbatim reproductions of historical texts such as the United States Declaration of Independence or the French Declaration of the Rights of the Man and of the Citizen.
The introductory music at the start of each episode is a clip from the second movement of Joseph Haydn's Symphony 92 (Oxford).
Origins
[edit]Duncan drew inspiration for the Revolutions podcast out of a deep personal interest from his teenage years, "When I was really getting into history when I was a teenager, the American Revolution was my favorite period of American history. I spent a whole period of time being really into the Russian Revolution."
Series overview
[edit]| Season | Title | Episodes | Supplementals | Originally released | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First released | Last released | |||||
| 1 | English Revolution | 16 | 4 | September 2013 | January 2014 | |
| 2 | American Revolution | 15 | 2 | February 2014 | May 2014 | |
| 3 | French Revolution | 55 | 5 | July 2014 | November 2015 | |
| 4 | Haitian Revolution | 19 | 1 | December 2015 | April 2016 | |
| 5 | Spanish American wars of independence | 27 | 1 | June 2016 | February 2017 | |
| 6 | July Revolution | 7 | 5 | March 2017 | May 2017 | |
| 7 | Revolutions of 1848 | 33 | 0 | July 2017 | April 2018 | |
| 8 | Paris Commune | 8 | 0 | May 2018 | June 2018 | |
| 9 | Mexican Revolution | 27 | 0 | August 2018 | March 2019 | |
| 10 | Russian Revolution pt 1 | - | 39 | 0 | May 2019 | April 2020 |
| Russian Revolution pt 2 | - | - | January 2021 | present | ||
Books
[edit]Duncan is currently writing his third book, Hero Of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution, about the Marquis de Lafayette during the American Revolution, French Revolution and the July Revolution. It is set to be released in the end of August, 2021.
Legacy and influence
[edit]Publications including Time, Popular Mechanics, and The Guardian have included Revolutions on their lists of recommended podcasts. Benjamin Wittes, after hearing the first two episodes of Revolutions, called the podcast "informative, engaging, told in Duncan's usual easygoing, somewhat comic style that packs a lot of history into relatively brief discussions.
See also
[edit]References
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Category:History podcasts
Category:Audio podcasts
Category:2013 podcast debuts