The Rest Is History
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The world’s most popular history podcast, with Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook. Join The Rest Is History Club (www.therestishistory.com) for ad-free listening to the full archive, weekly bonus episodes, live streamed shows and access to an exclusive chatroom community. Here are some of our favourite episodes to get you started: WATERGATE/NIXON apple.co/3JrVl5h ALEXANDER THE GREAT apple.co/3Q4FaNk HARDCORE HISTORY'S DAN CARLIN apple.co/3vqkGa3 PUTIN & RUSSIA apple.co/3zMtLfX
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"Tonight I want to speak to you of peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.” On the night of Sunday, 31st of March 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson, after announcing an end to the bombing of North Vietnam, stunned the world by revealing he would not seek the democratic nomination for that year’s presidential election. The seemingly never-ending Vietnam War had already made LBJ hugely unpopular with his progressive base. But now, facing challenges from Eugene McCarthy, the ambiguously anti-war senator from Minnesota, and Robert “Bobby” Kennedy, heir to the Kennedy throne, Johnson had decided to bow out. And so, as the war slowed for a moment, the Democrats would have to decide on the best candidate to take on a certain Richard M. Nixon… Join Tom and Dominic in the first episode of our six part series on America in 1968, as they look at the stories of Lyndon B. Johnson, Eugene McCarthy, and how the Vietnam War would come to define them both. _______ LIVE SHOWS *The Rest Is History LIVE in the U.S.A.* If you live in the States, we've got some great news: Tom and Dominic will be performing throughout America in November, with shows in San Francisco, L.A., Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Boston and New York. Tickets on sale now at TheRestIsHistory.com _______ Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Producer: Theo Young-Smith Assistant Producer: Anouska Lewis Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Previous episodes
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542 - 508. America in '68: Nightmare in Vietnam (Part 1) Mon, 28 Oct 2024
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541 - 507. The French Revolution: The Marseillaise, Song of War (Part 5) Thu, 24 Oct 2024
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540 - 506. The French Revolution: Massacre at the Palace (Part 4) Wed, 23 Oct 2024
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539 - 505. The French Revolution: The Shadow of the Guillotine (Part 3) Sun, 20 Oct 2024
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538 - 504. The French Revolution: War to the Death (Part 2) Wed, 16 Oct 2024
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537 - 503. The French Revolution: Bloodbath in Paris (Part 1) Sun, 13 Oct 2024
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536 - 502. The Roman Conquest of Britain: To the Ends of the Earth (Part 4) Wed, 09 Oct 2024
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535 - 501. The Roman Conquest of Britain: Boudicca’s Reign of Blood (Part 3) Sun, 06 Oct 2024
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534 - 500. The Roman Conquest of Britain: The Empire Strikes Back (Part 2) Wed, 02 Oct 2024
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533 - 499. The Roman Conquest of Britain: Julius Caesar’s Invasion (Part 1) Sun, 29 Sep 2024
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532 - 498. Evita: The Mystery of the Missing Body (Part 5) Wed, 25 Sep 2024
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531 - 497. Evita: Death of a Martyr (Part 4) Mon, 23 Sep 2024
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530 - 496. Evita: The World's Most Powerful Woman (Part 3) Sun, 22 Sep 2024
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529 - 495. Evita: The Rise of General Perón (Part 2) Wed, 18 Sep 2024
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528 - 494. Evita: Birth of a Legend (Part 1) Sun, 15 Sep 2024
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527 - 493. Lee Miller: Exposing the Horrors of World War Two Wed, 11 Sep 2024
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526 - 492. The War on Beards: From Peter the Great to John Lennon (Part 2) Mon, 09 Sep 2024
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525 - 491. History's Greatest Beards: From Egyptian Queens to Medieval Conquerors (Part 1) Sun, 08 Sep 2024
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524 - 490. Hundred Years' War: England Triumphant (Part 4) Wed, 04 Sep 2024
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523 - 489. Hundred Years' War: Bloodbath at Agincourt (Part 3) Sun, 01 Sep 2024
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522 - 488. Hundred Years' War: The Road to Agincourt (Part 2) Wed, 28 Aug 2024
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521 - 487. Hundred Years' War: Henry V’s Invasion of France (Part 1) Sun, 25 Aug 2024
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520 - 486. Henry IV: Warrior Princes and Fat Knights (Part 2) Wed, 21 Aug 2024
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519 - 485. Henry IV: The Usurper King (Part 1) Sun, 18 Aug 2024
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518 - 484. The Food that Changed the World Wed, 14 Aug 2024
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517 - 483. The Mysterious Case of the Ape Man Sun, 11 Aug 2024
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516 - 482. The French Revolution: The Royal Family Escapes (Part 8) Thu, 08 Aug 2024
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515 - 481. The French Revolution: The Women's March on Versailles (Part 7) Wed, 07 Aug 2024
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514 - 480. The French Revolution: The Rights of Man (Part 6) Mon, 05 Aug 2024
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513 - 479. The French Revolution: The Storming of the Bastille (Part 5) Sun, 04 Aug 2024
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512 - 478. The French Revolution: Showdown in Versailles (Part 4) Thu, 01 Aug 2024
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511 - 477. The French Revolution: The Violence Begins (Part 3) Wed, 31 Jul 2024
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510 - 476. The French Revolution: The Diamond Necklace Scandal (Part 2) Mon, 29 Jul 2024
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509 - 475. The French Revolution: Marie Antoinette (Part 1) Sun, 28 Jul 2024
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508 - 474. The Road to The Great War: The Lights Go Out (Part 6) Thu, 25 Jul 2024
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507 - 473. The Road to The Great War: The Tsar Chooses War (Part 5) Wed, 24 Jul 2024
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506 - 472. The Road to The Great War: Britain's Fateful Choice (Part 4) Sun, 21 Jul 2024
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505 - 471. The Road to The Great War: The Austrian Ultimatum (Part 3) Thu, 18 Jul 2024
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504 - 470. The Road to The Great War: The Kaiser’s Blank Cheque (Part 2) Wed, 17 Jul 2024
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503 - 469. The Road to The Great War: Countdown to Armageddon (Part 1) Sun, 14 Jul 2024
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502 - 468. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Crime (Part 4) Wed, 10 Jul 2024
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501 - 467. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Victim (Part 3) Sun, 07 Jul 2024
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500 - 466. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Conspiracy (Part 2) Wed, 03 Jul 2024
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499 - 465. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Killer (Part 1) Sun, 30 Jun 2024
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498 - Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar (Extract) Thu, 27 Jun 2024
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497 - 464. Modern British Elections (Part 2) Wed, 26 Jun 2024
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496 - 463. Mad Elections (Part 1) Sun, 23 Jun 2024
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495 - 462. St George: Dragon-Slayer Wed, 19 Jun 2024
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494 - 461. Dragons Sun, 16 Jun 2024
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493 - Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic (Extract) Thu, 13 Jun 2024