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Origin Story
What are the real stories behind the most misunderstood and abused ideas in politics? From Conspiracy Theory to Woke to Centrism and beyond, Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey dig into the astonishing secret histories of concepts you thought you knew. Want to support us in making future seasons? There are...
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Starmer Revisited – Where Did It All Go Wrong?
Welcome to a bonus episode of Origin Story. For the first time, we’re revisiting an earlier episode to ask what we got right and what we got wrong abo...
The Luddites – Rage Against the Machine
Welcome to the finale of season nine of Origin Story. We’re wrapping up the season by telling the thrilling, misunderstood story of the Luddites and h...
Paranormal Investigations – Is There Anybody Out There?
Welcome to Origin Story. This week we’re doing something different: the history of paranormal investigations and what it says about the relationship b...
Think Tanks – Part Two – The Room Where It Happens
Welcome to Origin Story and part two of the story of think tanks. Last time we traced the history of two very different varieties: the non-partisan ce...
Think Tanks – Part One – What’s the Big Idea?
Welcome to Origin Story. This week we explore the world of think tanks, a term that has developed two very different meanings. To many people, it sugg...
Evangelicals – Part Two – Good News, Bad News
Ever since the birth of evangelical Christianity in the 1730s, believers have disagreed over whether to dedicate themselves to changing society as wel...
Evangelicals – Part One – Altared States
Welcome to Origin Story, the show about why we are where we are. This week we begin the story of evangelical Christianity and its influence on politic...
J.K. Rowling – Part Two – Transparent
Welcome back to Origin Story and part two of the story of J.K. Rowling. In this episode we turn away from her life story towards her public statements...
J.K. Rowling – Part One – Transformation
Hello and welcome to Origin Story. This week we begin the story of J.K. Rowling and how the world’s most beloved author became its most divisive. How...
European Union – Part Three – The Expanse
Hello and welcome to the final part of the story of European union, in which we finally see the European Union come to pass — and run into trouble.
European Union – Part Two – Reality Bites
Welcome back to Origin Story and part two of the story of European union. Last time we left Europe in 1955, with Jean Monnet’s European Coal and Steel...
European Union – Part One – Come Together
Hello and welcome to season nine of Origin Story. After last season’s history of socialism, we’re returning to our usual format of taking on a complet...
Origin Story – Live at Bloomsbury Theatre, 15th April 2026
This week’s episode is an edited version of Origin Story Live at London’s Bloomsbury Theatre on Wednesday 15 April 2026. It was a thrill to take the s...
The General Strike – The Revolution That Wasn’t
Hello and welcome to another bonus episode. It’s the centenary of the General Strike of May 1926, the most important industrial dispute in British his...
Introvert / Extrovert – In Two Minds
The terms introvert and extrovert have never been more popular. People seem to increasingly latch onto them as a core element of their personality, cl...
Stephen Miller – American Fascist
Welcome to a bonus episode of Origin Story. Sometimes we profile people who are psychologically complex, who have undertaken fascinating intellectual...
15-Minute Cities – How Urban Design Entered the Culture War
Welcome to another between-season bonus episode of Origin Story. This week Ian tells the story of 15-minute cities: the notion that every urban reside...
Blue Labour: We Need to Talk About Maurice
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Welcome to a betwee...
Socialism: The Finale – What’s Left?
Welcome to the finale of Origin Story season eight: the story of socialism. Thanks to everybody who has followed our most ambitious season yet, especi...
The Fall of the USSR – End Game
Welcome to the penultimate episode of Origin story season eight: the story of socialism. We close the book on Soviet communism with the story of how i...
Che Guevara – Guerrilla in the Mist
Welcome back to Origin Story season eight: The Story of Socialism. This time, we take a look at hands-down the sexiest revolutionary of socialist hist...
The New Left – Part Two – Children of the Revolution
Welcome to the second episode of the week as we conclude the story of the New Left. In part one, we explained the various groups and thinkersthat fed...
The New Left – Part One – Generation Next
Welcome back to Origin Story season eight: The Story of Socialism. This time, we’re explaining the New Left, the messy constellation of ideas and move...
Origin Story – Live at the Tabernacle, 13th Nov 2025
This week’s episode is an edited version of Origin Story Live at the Tabernacle in London on Thursday 13 November.
The theme is political...
The Labour Party – Part Three – One Battle After Another
Welcome to the third and final part of the story of the Labour Party, from Keir Hardie to Keir Starmer.
Margaret Thatcher’s first electio...
The Labour Party – Part Two – War and Peace
Welcome back to Origin Story season eight: The Story of Socialism. This week, we continue the tale of the UK Labour Party, from Keir Hardie to Keir St...
The Labour Party – Part One – A Very British Socialism
Welcome back to Origin Story season eight: The Story of Socialism. This week, in the year of its 125th anniversary, we begin the tale of the UK Labour...
Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin – Part Three – Terror
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Welcome to the third and final part of the story of Lenin,...
Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin – Part Two – Power
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Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin – Part One – Revolution
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Karl Marx – Part Two – The Father
Welcome back to Season Eight: The Story of Socialism as we conclude the story of Karl Marx and the birth of Marxism.
It’s 1849. In the wa...
Karl Marx – Part One – The Fighter
A spectre is haunting Origin Story — the spectre of Karl Marx. Welcome back to season eight: The Story of Socialism. Last week, we explored the variou...
The Birth of Socialism – A Better World is Possible
Welcome to season eight of Origin Story. This season we’re trying something different: one big narrative across multiple topics. It’s the story of soc...
The British Chinese – Hidden generations
British Chinese compose nearly one per cent of the British population, but they are culturally and politically ignored with precious little representa...
Rivers of Blood – How Enoch Powell poisoned Britain
Welcome back to Origin Story. In this bonus episode Dorian tells the unnervingly relevant story of Enoch Powell’s so-called “Rivers of Blood” speech....
Shostakovich and Stalin – The Composer and the Dictator
Welcome back to Origin Story. This bonus episode is something a bit different: a story about the power of music and the music of power.
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ICE – How Trump built an American Gestapo
What is ICE? Who are these men we see gathered around students and politicians in the US, with their faces covered, wearing unmarked clothing, often t...
Martin Luther King Jr. – Part Two – Owning the dream
Welcome to the grand finale of Origin Story season seven, as we conclude the remarkable story of Martin Luther King Jr. With the march from Selma to M...
Martin Luther King Jr. – Part One – Eyes on the Prize
Welcome to the final topic of Origin Story season seven: the extraordinary life and legacy of Dr Martin Luther King. By Origin Story standards, there’...
Growth – GDP is the Magic Number
Welcome back to Origin Story, where we’re discussing the concept of economic growth. Growth is the world’s great obsession. When it’s booming, it make...