Since the World's been Turning
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Episode 113 - Crack
Following on from our previous episode on the AIDS epidemic, this time we’re focussing on another large scale social issue that swept the world - but more specifically the United States - in the late 1980s and early 90s. This is an epidemic of a different
Episode 112 - AIDS
In this episode we delve into one of modern histories deadliest diseases AIDS. The AIDS epidemic swept through the United States and the world at large in the 1980s and 90s, devastating the communities of queer people and drug users. Here to help us u
Episode 111 - Homeless Vets
In this episode were returning to America and catching up with the Vietnam veterans who proudly served their country in the 1960s and 70s.We explore the complex damages caused by war and one of the darker sides of the American dream: a problem with appar
Episode 110 - Foreign Debts
In this episode were looking at foreign debts in the 1980s, as we explore the economic system introduced by American President (and former B movie actor) Ronald Reagan. The 80s also saw a massive debt crisis in Latin America, where its known as La Decad
Episode 109 - Heavy Metal suicide
Throughout modern history, there have been few things in popular culture as stigmatised as heavy metal music. Coated in all forms of macabre imagery and dealing with dark and provocative themes - metal has always sought to test the limits of what is soci
Episode 109 - Heavy Metal suicide
Throughout modern history, there have been few things in popular culture as stigmatised as heavy metal music. Coated in all forms of macabre imagery and dealing with dark and provocative themes - metal has always sought to test the limits of what is socia
Episode 110 - Foreign Debts
In this episode were looking at foreign debts in the 1980s, as we explore the economic system introduced by American President (and former B movie actor) Ronald Reagan. The 80s also saw a massive debt crisis in Latin America, where its known as La Decad
Episode 108 - Sally Ride
In the early 1980s, more than a decade after the Moon Landing, America saw the stratospheric rise of Sally Ride, the third female astronaut and the first woman from the United States to go into space. Overnight, she became a national hero: but she never f
Episode 107 - Wheel of Fortune
This time were focussing on one of the more seemingly innocuous inclusions in Billy Joels lyrics, the TV game show Wheel of Fortune. Thriving off a deceptive simplicity, and a healthy amount of audiences yelling at their TV screens, this spruced up vers
Episode 106 - Russians in Afghanistan
In this episode, we return to the Middle East and explore the country known as the Graveyard of Empires: Afghanistan. More than 30 years before Americas War on Terror began, Russian troops invaded the mountainous region and plunged the country into confl