Podcast – The Historical Gadfly

The Historical Gadfly is a podcast-cum-conversation devoted to history, current events, good books, and the relationship between all three. In it, I interview interesting people on their interests, their musings on current events and history, and their recent work.

On this page, you can find a complete listing of all the episodes we’ve recorded.

• Episode 17 – Thawing Into Spring with Polly Jones on Soviet Literature
• Episode 16 – Sifting Through Argumentative Indian Archives with Dinyar Patel
• Episode 15 – Joining the Hiphopocracy? Hip-Hop Studies with Tessa Brown
• Episode 14 – John Raimo and Tim on “The Running Man”
• Episode 13 – Ellie Ott on Refugees from Bhutan, Iraq, and Somalia to the USA
• Episode 12 – Will Wachter on John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Affluent Society
• Episode 11 – Geoff Shaw on Legal Development in Azerbaijan
• Episode 10 – Shane Boyle on the German New Left and 1968
• Episode 9 – Avner Offer’s Journey “From Social Democracy to Market Liberalism”
• Episode 8 – Brittany Morreale on South Sudan
• Episode 7 – Reed Doucette on Los Angeles and Life
• Episode 6 – Robin Briggs’ Journey from Oxford to France
• Episode 5 – Anton Zykov on Russia in India, India in Russia, and Zoroastrians
• Episode 4 – Kyle Haddad-Fonda on Chinese-Arab Relations in History
• Episode 3 – Niksa Spremic, on Croatia, Yugoslavia, and Catholicism in Southeast Europe
• Episode 2 – John Raimo on Cartographies of Time
• Episode 1 – Willy Oppenheim and Mohammad Rai on Development in Pakistan’s Past and Future

Interested in hearing something new, or have an idea for the podcast? If so, why not contact me?

The music used in the introduction and outro of the podcast is from “Heart’s Anxiety” by Ceracyst and cheez80, under the terms of the Content Policy of www.ocremix.org.