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Start the WeekHistories, emotions and identityThree prize-winning authors in today's discussion programme hosted by Tom Sutcliffe:The German Peasants’ War of 1524–1525 was the greatest popular uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution. Tens of thousands of peasants rose up to demand a new, more egalitarian order—only to be crushed in a brutal counterattack that left up to 100,000 dead. The historian Lyndal Roper argues that this rebellion was far from chaotic: it was a coherent mass movement inspired by the radical ideals of the Protestant Reformation. Her book Summer of Fire and Blood is the winner of the 2025 Cundill History Prize. T...
2025-12-0841 min
Authors of History PodcastAuthor of History with Hannah DurkinOn this very special episode of the Authors of History Podcast I talk to the newly announced winner of the 2025 Wolfson History Book Prize, author and historian Hannah Durkin.Hannah is a researcher in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Black Atlantic history and culture with specialist expertise in transatlantic slavery and its legacies. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Nottingham and a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism from Leeds Trinity University. Her research has been featured in the New York Times, London Times, NPR, the BBC, and many other news outlets throughout Africa...
2025-12-0341 min
Arts & IdeasThe Good LifeWhat does living a good life involve? Michael Rosen's new book is called Good Days and offers suggestions to brighten our daily lives. Dr Sophie Scott-Brown is a research fellow at St Andrews' Institute of Intellectual History. The Rev'd Fergus Butler-Gallie has spent time working in the Czech republic and South Africa and ministering in parishes in Liverpool and London. His most recent book is Twelve Churches: An Unlikely History of the Buildings that made Christianity. Dr Rachel Wiseman lectures on philosophy at the University of Liverpool and explored the impact of the relative absence of women philosophers. Sudhir...
2025-10-0356 min
The Pop Corner with Matty DurkinDolo's Softball Game, Freakier Friday & Hannah Montana: Mileys Version! Matty is BACK this week on The Pop Corner, and he's bringing all the pop culture heat! First up, he’s giving us the inside scoop on a star-studded night at RHONJ star Dolores Catania's "Battle for Brooklyn" Celebrity Charity Softball Game. From iconic Housewives moments to heartfelt charity vibes, Matty shares what it was like hanging with the girls he’s missed so much on screen. We need more Jersey energy—bring back RHONJ!We’re also diving into Disney’s newest hit Freakier Friday, and Matty gets personal about the film’s nostalgic impact on his child...
2025-08-1332 min
tiTENic minutesEP-04: Es ist doch englisch, oder?Die Titanic sticht in See! Das majestätische Schiff zieht sichdurch den Ozean, und das Leben könnte nicht besser sein! Die Passagiere sind begeistert, die Besitzer sind zufrieden und die Hunde dürfen auf dem "Poop-Deck" auslaufen. Jeder an Bord ist glücklich. Doch dabei darf man nicht vergessen, unter welch düsteren Umständen die Titanic erbaut wurde…In dieser Folge sehen wir, wie ein Dampfschiff funktioniert, machen einen kurzen Exkurs in der Seefahrer-Ausbildung und erfahren, warum die Titanic aus zerrütteten Verhältnissen stammt. Außerdem begleiten wir eine Gruppe junger Frauen aus der Dritten Klasse bei...
2025-04-1553 min
The Pop Corner with Matty DurkinHot Topics, Hannah Montana Transitions & Hot Takes Matty is back from vacation and is ready to get into hot topics! He has been all over the place this month from Boston for St. Patrick's Day to NYC for the NYC Half Marathon/ Sunset Blvd to visiting his big bro in Colorado! Matty is giving his movie reviews for The Iron Claw (2023), Novocaine (2025) and Trap (2024). We are honoring the late-Tejano Star, Selena Quintanilla Perez 30 years after her murder by her fan club President, Yolanda Saldivar, Mileys new visual album "Something Beautiful",and Lizzo's upcoming projects. Matty also has some harsh words for Mr. Kanye West after recent...
2025-03-2646 min
HistoryExtra podcastClotilda: the last slave ship to AmericaThe transatlantic slave trade was formally abolished in both Britain and the US in 1807 and 1808 – yet slave ships were still forcibly bringing enslaved African people to the Americas right up to the 1860s. David Musgrove speaks to historian Hannah Durkin about the long history of this horrific trade, through the eyes of the survivors of Clotilda, the last ship to transport slaves to America. (Ad) Hannah Durkin is the author of Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade (HarperCollins, 2024). Buy it now fr...
2024-04-1037 min
RehashIs Anyone Up?Sure, the computer gave us war. But sex gave us the iCloud email alert. Ever since Marilyn Monroe was on the cover of Playboy, men have been profiting off of women’s bodies without their consent. Yet if revenge porn has been around since God was a small child, why did it seem to peak in the 2010s? In this episode, Hannah and Maia go back to a time when Hunter Moore, the Gavin McInnes of cybersex terrorism, reigned supreme on the internet with his wildly popular revenge porn website, Is Anyone Up? A website which changed our understanding of...
2024-03-1153 min
American History HitThe Last Ship of the Atlantic Slave TradeIn July 1860, half a century after the importation of captive slaves was banned under federal law, a ship docked in Alabama carrying around 110 enslaved people.To find out who was still engaging in the Atlantic slave trade, how these people were forced onto the Clotilda and what happened to them after landing in the United States, Don speaks to Hannah Durkin.Hannah is the author of 'Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade'.Produced and edited by Sophie Gee. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.
2024-03-0337 minAmerican History HitThe Last Ship of the Atlantic Slave TradeIn July 1860, half a century after the importation of captive slaves was banned under federal law, a ship docked in Alabama carrying around 110 enslaved people.To find out who was still engaging in the Atlantic slave trade, how these people were forced onto the Clotilda and what happened to them after landing in the United States, Don speaks to Hannah Durkin.Hannah is the author of 'Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade'.Produced and edited by Sophie Gee. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.
2024-03-0337 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 884 - Hannah Durkin's SurvivorsDr. Hannah Durkin talks to Neil Denny about her new book Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-02-2726 min
The Next Big Idea Daily"The Survivors of the Clotilda" by Hannah DurkinToday, the true story of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on American soil — more than half a century after a federal law banned the importation of captive Africans.
2024-02-2214 min
Arroe Collins Play It Forward: Missed OpportunityPlay It Forward Episode 614 Dr Hannah Durkin Releases The Survivors Of The ClotildaThank you for being part of the conversation. This is Play It Forward. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward Episode 614 with Dr. Hannah Durkin author of Survivors Of The Clotilda. The Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on American soil, docked in Mobile Bay, Alabama, in July 1860 - more than half a century after the passage of a federal law banning the importation of captive Africans, and 9 months before the beginning of the Civil War. The last of its survivors lived well into the 20th century. They were the last witnesses. In the book, Dr...
2024-02-2109 min
History Unplugged PodcastStories From Captives on The Last Slave Ship to AmericaThe Clotilda was the last slave ship to land on American soil, docked in Mobile Bay, Alabama, in July 1860—more than half a century after the passage of a federal law banning the importation of slaves, and nine months before the beginning of the Civil War. Five of its passengers, ranging in age from two to nineteen when kidnapped, died between 1922 and 1940.Today’s guest is Hannah Durkin, author of “Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade.” We follow their lives from their kidnappings in what is modern-day Benin through...
2024-02-2029 min
Get ConnectedTHE SURVIVORS OF THE CLOTILDA: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave TradeFor Black History Month, a look into American History, with author and historian Dr. Hannah Durkin. Her epic book is THE SURVIVORS OF THE CLOTILDA: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade. Dr. Durkin is a historian specializing in transatlantic slavery and African diasporic art and culture, and is an advisor to the History Museum of Mobile, which is working to memorialize the Clotilda survivors.
2024-02-1915 min
The ALL NEW Big Wakeup Call with Ryan GatenbyHannah DurkinSend us a textAuthor and historian Hannah Durkin discusses her new book, THE SURVIVORS OF THE CLOTILDA: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade.About the author: DR. HANNAH DURKIN is a historian specializing in transatlantic slavery and African diasporic art and culture. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Nottingham and a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism from Leeds Trinity University. She has taught at Nottingham and Newcastle universities, and recently served as a Guest Researcher at Linnaeus University i...
2024-02-1211 min
Intelligence SquaredThe Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave TradeHannah Durkin is a historian whose new book, Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade, shines a light on the final years of a pivotal yet deeply troubling period in US and global history. The Clotilda, the subject of Durkin's book, was the last slave ship to land on American soil in 1860. This was despite a federal law banning the importation of captive individuals from the African continent having been passed over half a century prior. Some of the survivors onboard The Clotilda lived well into the 20th century and the book aims...
2024-02-0439 min
Unsung HistoryClotilda: The Last U.S. Slave ShipIn 1860, on the eve of the Civil War, the last slave ship landed in the United States from Africa. The transatlantic slave trade had been illegal in the US since 1808, but Alabama enslaver Timothy Meaher and his friends were so sure they could get away with it that they made a bet and hired Meaher’s neighbor, William Foster, to captain a voyage to Africa. Foster and his crew smuggled 110 terrified kidnapped Africans to Mobile Bay, taking them from a homeland they loved to cruel enslavement in the deep South, and changing their lives forever. J...
2024-01-1541 min
Life in the Credits071 Kissing Jessica Stein with Writer and Producer Hannah RothblattHannah Rothblatt, Writer and Producer, joins Susan and Ben to discuss Kissing Jessica Stein, a 2001 romantic comedy. Hannah shares what it’s like having a career as a Digital Producer on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. She discusses crafting digital content that matches the voice of a show’s host, maintaining a work-life balance in a job that requires her to keep up with the news, and casting her grandma in a field piece for Full Frontal. Hannah plays our “Sounds Like Love” game.
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2022-12-2149 min
Witness History: Black historyThe last survivor of the transatlantic slave tradeThe last surviving person to be captured in Africa in the 19th century and brought to United States on a slave ship, has been identified as a woman called Matilda McCrear, who died in Alabama in 1940. Sean Coughlan has spoken to the historian Hannah Durkin who uncovered Matilda's extraordinary life story and to Matilda's grandson, Johnny Crear.Photo: Matilda McCrear in later years. Copyright: Johnny Crear.
2020-04-2108 min
Black-Eyed N BluesWhite Horse | BEB 326Playlist:
James Armstrong, Early Grave,
Stone Stanley, Beast Inside,
Bumper Jackson, White Horse,
The Tearaways, Little Bit Of Love,
Joyann Parker, Take My Heart And Run,
Waydown Wailers, Back Door Woman Blues,
Steve Howell And The Mighty Men, Bacon Fat,
Danielle Nicole, Crawl,
Keeshea Pratt Band, Have A Good Time Y’all,
The Norman Jackson Band, Water Faucet,
Lurrie Bell & The Bell Dynasty, Gone To Main Street,
Jeff Jensen, Pretend Forevers,
Bridget Kelly Band, Trouble In Texas,
Buddy Guy, Blue No More (with James Ba...
2018-06-132h 12Black-Eyed N BluesCrab Boil | BEB 309Playlist:
Harper And Midwest Kind, Show Your Love,
Jay Willie Blues Band,Hitting On Nothing,
Peter Kaukonen, (Drifting) Cozumel,
Mike Howe, Speak Your Dreams,
Dave Hunt feat Donna Shaw, Honeysuckle Rose,
Jim Shaneberger Band, Ain’t Your Daddy’s Blues,
Liza Ohlback, I’m Not Your Woman,
Mama Spanx, Thinkin’,
Johnny Tucker, Love And Appreciation (to Georgia),
John Primer, Stuff You Got To Watch,
Carolyn Gaines, I Want Your Money, Honey,
The Reverend Shawn Amos, The Jean Genie,
Victoria Ginty And Ladyhawke,Things Left Undone,
Sug...
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