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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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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...
Mars – The Next Frontier?
Welcome to the first ever episode of Origin Story dedicated to a planet. We’re taking a long look at the place of Mars in the popular imagination, fro...
Appeasement – Part Two – Betrayal
Welcome back to Origin Story and join us as we wrap up the story of appeasement. It’s 1938. After the Anschluss, Hitler makes his bid for the Sudetenl...
Appeasement – Part One – The Bitter Cup
Welcome back to Origin Story. This week we turn to the story of the appeasement of Hitler’s Germany during the 1930s. With appeasement in the news aga...
Origin Story Live at 21 Soho – Grand Theft America
We had a very good time at Origin Story Live at 21 Soho on Wednesday night. Thanks to everyone who showed up or watched the livestream.
T...
Partition – Part Two – Dividing Lines
Welcome back to Origin Story, where we’re concluding the story of the partition of India and Pakistan. We resume in March 1947 with the arrival of the...
Partition – Part One – Before Midnight
Welcome back to Origin Story. This week we begin the immense story of the partition of India and Pakistan at midnight on 14-15 August 1947. In a strok...
Thatcherism – Part Two – Imperial phase
In part two of Thatcherism, Margaret Thatcher has survived a grim first term and her political and economic bets have paid off. She’s ready to wage wa...
Thatcherism – Part One – Birth of a Notion
Hello and welcome to season seven of Origin Story, where Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey continue to explore the misunderstood ideas and people that shape...
Kemi Badenoch – Identity crisis
Season seven is almost upon us and we’ll be starting with an epic two-parter on Thatcherism, so consider this bonus episode a warm-up. We’re unravelli...
The Myth of Cultural Marxism – Anatomy of a conspiracy theory
Welcome to another Origin Story bonus episode. This week we’re discussing the conspiracy theory of Cultural Marxism. In the 1990s, cultural conservati...
Doctor Who – The Regeneration Game
Travel into the furthest reaches of space and time as we investigate the history of Doctor Who. From its inception in 1963, as a longshot gamble to fi...
Trump’s inauguration: Can we call it fascism yet? – Plus exclusive audiobook excerpt
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Elon Musk and the Death of Twitter
Happy new year, Origin Story listeners. We’ll be releasing regular bonus episodes between now and the launch of season seven in April and we’re kickin...
The Daily Mail – Part two – Paper Tigers
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Welcome to part two of the story of the Daily Mail. W...
The Daily Mail – Part one – Barons and Blackshirts
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Welcome to the season finale of Origin Story. We put...
The BBC – Part two – Balancing act
Welcome to part two of the story of the BBC. The Second World War is over, radio is booming and television is back. The BBC is stronger than ever, wit...
The BBC – Part one – Inform, educate, entertain
So far this season we’ve had to deal with Russell Brand and Benjamin Netanyahu, and we’ve got the Daily Mail coming up, so we all deserve a more uplif...
Benjamin Netanyahu – Part two – Divide and conquer
This week we complete the story of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s most politically successful prime minister — and its most divisive.
We pick up...
Benjamin Netanyahu – Part one – Making enemies
This week we commence the story of Benjamin Netanyahu. The 75-year-old has become Israel’s longest serving prime minister despite never winning the lo...
US Post-Election Live Show – Part Two
Part two of Ian and Dorian’s post-Presidential Election show at the Tabernacle in West London, recorded on the 7th of November. After signing books (h...