This week we are sweeping through Sicily and Southern Italy in the company of the original revolutionary hero, Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi.
In the mid nineteenth century, change was in the air as new political movements began questioning the status quo. Powerful ideas like socialism, republicanism, liberalism and nationalism were spreading through Europe, harnessed by charismatic leaders determined to bring about dramatic social change. None were more charismatic than Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Our guide on this epoch-making trip is Jamie Mackay, a writer who is based in the beautiful town of Fiesole just north of Florence. This episode relates to his book The Invention of Sicily which tells the story of this fascinating island, fought over and coveted by almost every civilisation in history, a romantic melting pot where cruelty and disaster were never far away.
As ever, maps, images and much more about this episode is to be found at our website tttpodcast.com.
Click here to order Jamie MacKay's book from John Sandoe’s who, we are delighted to say, are supplying books for the podcast.
John Darlington: The Port Royal Earthquake (1692)
Katja Hoyer: Beyond The Wall (1973)
Company of Heroes 3: David Milne (1942-4)
Sarah Bakewell: Petrarch and Boccaccio (1348*)
Nandini Das: The first English embassy to India (1616)
[From the archives] Ariana Neumann: When Time Stopped (1944)
Nicholas Spencer: The Great Debate (1860)
Christopher Hadley: Roman Roads and the Invasion of Britain (51 AD)
Don Hollway: The Year of Three Battles (1066)
[From the archives] Rebecca Wragg Sykes: Neanderthals (Eemian)
James Hall: Michelangelo and Leonardo in Florence (1504)
Tania Branigan: Mao and the Cultural Revolution (1966)
Marion Turner: The Wife of Bath (1397)
John Sellars: Aristotle (347 BC)
Simon Akam: The Changing of the Guard (2006)
[From the archives] Diarmaid MacCulloch: Thomas Cromwell (1536)
Tim Clayton: James Gillray and a Revolution in Satire (1792)
Harry Sidebottom: The Mad Emperor (218)
Josiah Osgood: Caesar, Cato and the Fall of the Roman Republic (46BC)
Philip Mansel: Louis XIV, The Sun King (1700)
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