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NZpodz Hello and welcome to ‘Since the World’s Been Turning’.

This podcast is a journey through history, one guided by the lyrics of Billy Joel’s famous song, “We Didn’t Start the Fire”.

That's a wrap folks! We've reached the end of our 20th century history podcast Since the World's Been Turning. It's been...
01/04/2025

That's a wrap folks! We've reached the end of our 20th century history podcast Since the World's Been Turning. It's been an epic journey through Billy Joel's song We Didn't Start the Fire and through 20th century history. Thank you so much to our listeners for being with us along the way. Please keep an eye out for remastered versions of podcast episodes with our amazing guests. Bonus episodes will also become available throughout the year.

Here a link to the last episode:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2s2J6lyXc8Qxa8eBOf4CnW?si=6d200d201a6044b1

JFK's assassination is one of the most hotly debated events in American history. Over the past fifty plus years, the ass...
14/08/2023

JFK's assassination is one of the most hotly debated events in American history.
Over the past fifty plus years, the assassination of President John F Kennedy, has become increasingly defined by the litany of conspiracy theories that have sprung up around it. The sheer and wide reaching tragedy of the event itself, has, for many, faded with age.
And so we’ll attempt to turn the clock back to the 1960s, and try to recapture how this was felt at the time, by the Kennedys, by America and by the world at large.

Our guest on this episode is Phillip Shenon, author of “A Cruel and Shocking Act: The True History of the Kennedy Assassination.” Phillip was also a reporter at the New York Times for more than twenty years, where he provided extensive political coverage of affairs in the heart of Washington.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7lugMzwBnqyrPjqzQp8ULG?si=651daccde7c04266

Episode 92 - We take a look at one of the juiciest scandals of the mid-20th century: the Profumo affair. It’s the media ...
14/08/2023

Episode 92 - We take a look at one of the juiciest scandals of the mid-20th century: the Profumo affair.
It’s the media circus that ushered in the swinging 60s: and it’s got everything – English politicians, Cold War spies, wild parties, young showgirls and even a high society osteopath.
The scandal also revealed some ugly truths when it came to gender, sexuality and class in mid 20th-century Britain.

We’re joined by special guest Stephen Dorrill, who talks us through the colorful characters and events of the time. Stephen is the co-author of Honeytrap: The Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward, and a recently retired lecturer and honorary research fellow at the University of Leicester.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4CU207Es3f7f5f1tVd7Xoq?si=7d53f1348724469b

This episode we’re looking at the life and work of one of America’s most polarising political and religious figures, Mal...
14/08/2023

This episode we’re looking at the life and work of one of America’s most polarising political and religious figures, Malcolm X.
Also known as Malcolm Little, and el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, Malcolm X was a prominent voice in Black empowerment and served as a more provocative and anti-establishment counterpart to Civil Rights Leaders such as Martin Luther King.
So join us, as we tell the life story of one of the most important people of the 20th Century.

Here to join us is author and professor of history and public affairs at the university of Texas at Austin, Dr Peniel Joseph.
His new book The Sword and the shield delves into the history about Malcolm X and Martin Luther King.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4KJTcroFVpthjTWg0VQATU?si=5b467680579541c4

In this episode, we’re telling the story of one of Catholicism's least remembered, yet most relevant, figures of the 20t...
14/07/2023

In this episode, we’re telling the story of one of Catholicism's least remembered, yet most relevant, figures of the 20th century.
Pope Paul VI, who was born Giovanni Montini, arguably changed the relationship Lay-Catholics have with Church Leadership forever, with his determination to uphold traditional Church teachings on Birth Control.

Our special guest for this episode is Michele Dillon a professor of Sociology and the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of New Hampshire.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7j260cmpgUxrTPEscSDylb?si=7a7dece0dbae4990

Sonny Liston’s challenge of Floyd Patterson, is one of the most high profile, vicious, and tragic stories in the history...
14/07/2023

Sonny Liston’s challenge of Floyd Patterson, is one of the most high profile, vicious, and tragic stories in the history of boxing. With tendrils extending out into organised crime, and even the oval office, it proves that sport can be as political as anything else, and that behind any important game, there’s a great story to be told.

Joining us in the ring is History Professor Randy Roberts from Purdue University he will help us navigate just what happened when Sonny Liston beat Floyd Patterson.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4dtXAL7gjSzQYu7vkGp6np?si=f7bc813960584d16

And finally for this weeks episode we look into the life of John Glenn, an American legend: a fighter pilot, astronaut, ...
09/06/2023

And finally for this weeks episode we look into the life of John Glenn, an American legend: a fighter pilot, astronaut, and politician. The man who left an indelible impression on 20th century US history.

We’re joined by special guest, American political and presidential historian Jeff Shesol. Jeff’s the author of Mercury Rising, John Glenn, John Kennedy and the Cold War.

Our episode last week returns back to the United States and the battle for Civil Rights. This conflict would involve P...
09/06/2023

Our episode last week returns back to the United States and the battle for Civil Rights. This conflict would involve President Kennedy, and his Attorney General brother. It would lead to the mobilisation of several (30,000) troops, the most for a single disturbance in United States history.

Our guest for the week is special guest, William Doyle. William is the author of James Meredith - An American Insurrection, along with the co-author of Meredith’s autobiography “A Mission from God”.

https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/episode-87-ole-miss/id1565762770?i=1000614835173

In this episode, we look at the astonishing rise of The Beatles, in British Beatlemania. The band who went on to sell mi...
09/06/2023

In this episode, we look at the astonishing rise of The Beatles, in British Beatlemania. The band who went on to sell millions of album copies worldwide and are still considered the best band of all time.

We’re joined by special guest Dr Kenneth L. Campbell, a history professor at Monmouth University in New Jersey where he teaches a course on Beatles’ history. Dr Campbell is also the author of “The Beatles and the 1960s: Reception, Revolution and Social Change”, and “American Popular Culture and the Beatles”

For the second time this series, or third if you count our episode on Doctor Zhivago, we find ourselves discussing the w...
08/05/2023

For the second time this series, or third if you count our episode on Doctor Zhivago, we find ourselves discussing the work of film director David Lean. Famous for his epics that pushed the limits of Hollywood technology and budgets, ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ is undoubtedly his most ambitious work, an epic amongst epics.

Here to talk about the man who works out those specifics, is our guest Steven Caton (Kayton), a professor of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. Steve is the author of the book “Lawrence of Arabia, a film’s Anthropology.”

In this episode, we return to Cuba and to the regime of socialist leader Fidel Castro. We’re traveling to the Bay of Pig...
08/05/2023

In this episode, we return to Cuba and to the regime of socialist leader Fidel Castro. We’re traveling to the Bay of Pigs, the site of a botched invasion carried out by Cuban exiles, and financed by the US Government.

Today, it’s remembered as a minor disaster, but it’s one of the most significant early events of the Cold War.

This time we’re heading to the turbulent city of Berlin. Over its four-hundred-year lifetime, Berlin has been through un...
08/05/2023

This time we’re heading to the turbulent city of Berlin. Over its four-hundred-year lifetime, Berlin has been through unparalleled amounts of change. Finding itself at the epicentre of two world wars, and then split in half by the Cold War, history never takes a break in Berlin.

Here to talk about Berlin is our guest on this episode, retired British army officer and author Sir Barnabas (Barney) White-Spunner. Barney is the author of Berlin: The Story of a City, and a commander of the British Empire.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2teDSC6D0Crb9t9Iwk4aaa?si=5326a96d68864e29

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