Frank Dikötter returns to the show to talk about dictators and in particular how they use the cult of personality to crush friends and enemies alike. HIs book on dictators is an elightening tour of some of the worst men of the 20th century - horribly enjoyable!
Anthony Kaldellis on Byzantium (Part 1)
Hampton Sides - the last voyage of Captain Cook
The Sin Eater
Ed West - From the Romans to Alfred the Great
John McWhorter and Scott Sumner - talking movies
The Lives of East Germans - Katja Hoyer
Britons never will be slaves?
Italy, a ruin - part 2 of the Adventures of Belisarius and Antonina
Constantinople show its teeth - part 1 of the Adventures of Belisarius and Antonina
Mao's China with Frank Dikötter
Shipwreck, mutiny and murder
Sharp and Sumner: 6 Japanese movies
McWhorter and Holland - On dinosaurs
Acre 1291 - the final showdown
The Salem Witch trials with Stacy Schiff
Suleiman the Magnificent with Christopher de Bellaigue
Slavery in the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages
Talking movies with Scott Sumner
The war against Antony and Cleopatra
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