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Projector RoomProjector Room Episode 184 Dead Mail, Black Bag (24/04/2025)The Projector
Room Podcast Show Notes
Show 184 - Dead Mail, Black Bag
Ted
Salmon, Gareth
Myles and Allan
Gildea
Reviews and Feedback
Phil Harding on To
Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Robert Macrowan on Mufasa:
The Lion King (2024)
Chad Dixon on Halo (2022 - 2024)
Jon Trimmer and Chris Clayton on The
Bondsman (2025)
Flop of the Fortnight
Gladiator
II (2024)
Murder-Rock:
Dancing Death (1984)
Private Screening
Under
Suspicion (2000)
Themed Treats (Steven So...2025-04-251h 40Projector RoomProjector Room Episode 183 Showgirl Strangers (09/04/2025)The
Projector Room Podcast Show Notes
Show 183 - Showgirl
Strangers
Ted
Salmon,
Gareth
Myles
and Allan
Gildea
Reviews
and
Feedback
Adrian
Brain on The
Rule of Jenny Pen
(2024)
Robert
Macrowan on The
Crow
(2024)
Robert
Macrowan on Cleaner
(2025)
Adrian
Brain on The
Monkey
(2025)
Flop
of the
Fortnight
2025-04-101h 59Projector RoomProjector Room Episode 180 The Damned Wolf Man (26/02/2025)The
Projector Room Podcast Show Notes
Show 180 - The
Damned Wolf Man
Ted
Salmon,
Gareth
Myles
and Allan
Gildea
Contributions
and Reviews
Kah
Leong
Ow on The
Night Agent
(2023 -
2025)
Irfan
Ali
on Flight
Risk
(2025)
Flop
of the
Fortnight
Robert
Macrowan on He
Went
That Way
(2023)
Private
Screening
2025-02-261h 37Projector RoomProjector Room Episode 179 Heretic Hijack Pussycat (12/02/2025)The
Projector Room Podcast Show Notes
Show 179 - Heretic
Hijack Pussycat!
Ted
Salmon,
Gareth
Myles
and Allan
Gildea
Contributions
and Reviews
Robert
Macrowan on The
Count
of Monte-Cristo
(2024)
Chad
Dixon
on A
Complete Unknown
(2024)
Chris
Clayton on Silo
(2023-24)
Irfan
Ali
on Den
of
Thieves 2: Pantera
(2025)
Flop
of the
Fortnight
2025-02-121h 53Projector RoomProjector Room Episode 176 Minnie Magpie (11/12/2024)Minnie
Magpie
The
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Show 176
Ted
Salmon,
Gareth
Myles
and Allan
Gildea
Projector
Room Community
Projector
Room Group at MeWe
Feedback
and Contributions
Robert Macrowan on Red
One
(2024)
Phillip
Wray on Murder
Mindfully
(2024)
Phil
Harding on There's
Something In The Barn
(2023)
Kah
Leong
(Ow) on 2024-12-121h 32
Transforming Society podcastWhy history needs to be rewrittenHistory is a key battleground in our increasingly bitter contemporary culture wars. In the polarized debates over who we are, the cry of ‘You can’t rewrite history’ regularly goes up. And is regularly met with the counterclaim that history needs to be rewritten.Virtually the only thing both sides can agree on is that the past matters. But why, and in what ways? And is there a route out of our current impasse? These are some of the questions tackled in this episode of the podcast, in which George Miller talks to Robert Gildea, emeritus professor of mod...2024-05-1646 min
The Bunker – News without the nonsenseMyths of the Miners' StrikeBritain’s Miners’ Strike conjures up strong emotions to this day – despite 40 years having passed since the confrontation. But what are the common misconceptions of this period of history? And how are its effects still being felt today? Andrew Harrison asks Robert Gildea, emeritus professor of modern history at the University of Oxford, about the enduring legacy of the Miners’ Strike. • “The slogan was ‘close a pit, kill a community’ – and there was indeed devastation across mining communities in the decade after the strikes.” – Robert Gildea • "There was a kind of ‘alternative welfare state’ that was set up largely by...2024-04-0427 min
Presque Parisiennes PodcastThe One About Strikes and Protests (Part 2)This episode is part 2 of this topic, where we focus mainly on the protests in France. We look into the history and the current climate.
Gezi Park Protests in Turkey.
Bastille Prison History
Modern History Professor Robert Gildea at History Behind News Podcast.
Yellow Vest Protests
The Local’s Talking France Podcast on Black Clad.
The Local’s Talking France Podcast on Expulsion vs Deportation.
2005 French Riots
2009 French Riots - Case of Mohamed Benmouna
2016 - Case of Adama Traoré
2017 French...2023-12-1228 min
Researcher RevealedResearcher Revealed Podcast Episode 3Professor Ian Jones, made the time for a quick conversation with me while we were both attending the recent British Association for Nurses in Cardiovascular Care (BANCC) conference. This was the first episode I tried to capture in the “wild”. Unfortuanately the video stopped recording after thei first minute.Ian is a Professor of Nursing and Allied Health at Liverpool John Moores University. In addition to his teaching roles he also leads on multiple research studies where his passion is in bringing research into the community to build better health for all.Find Ian2023-10-1230 min
History Extra podcastThe miners’ strike: a view from the groundIn March 1984, miners across Britain walked out of the pits and refused to go back. What followed was one of the longest, largest, and most divisive strikes in British history, as the miners stayed out of work to fight for the survival of their livelihoods and communities. Speaking to Ellie Cawthorne, Robert Gildea revisits the trials and tribulations of the strike, based on his research interviewing more than 140 former miners and their families and supporters.(Ad) Robert Gildea is the author of Backbone of a Nation: Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85...2023-08-2334 min
History Behind News ProgramS3E13: 62 to 64! Mass Protests in France. History of French revolts & revolutions - from Bastille (1789) to retirement reform (2023)King Charles canceled his much anticipated official visit to France that was scheduled for the end of Mach, because the French President, Emanuel Macron, told him don't come - we have mass protests here in France!
France is now approaching three months of mass protests against President Marcon's pension reform bill, which increased the retirement age from 62 to 64. Polls show that 65% of the French people oppose this increase in their retirement age.
And these protests are massive, similar to the Yellow Vests Protests that gripped France in violence back in 2019. Although last week's protests were...2023-04-071h 04
Take Note5/2/22 - 2022 PMEA Outstanding Superintendent, Dr. Robert GildeaWe're talking with the 2022 PMEA Outstanding Superintendent, Dr. Robert Gildea from the Hollidaysburg Area School District. He talks with us about the music program in Hollidaysburg and his advice for superintendents across the state on how to support a successful music program.2022-05-0211 min
Historia Política Pública10: La Década de 1960 - Encuentros PolíticosEste episodio analiza los encuentros entre los estudiantes de los diferentes países de Europa y cómo las políticas que propugnaban eran radicalmente diferente dependiendo de su procedencia. Mientras que los estudiantes del bloque occidental de Europa querían una democracia más directa y mayor capacidad de decisión, sus homólogos de Europa del Este querían derechos que se antojaban básicos en países como Francia o Italia, como la libertad de expresión. Esto se debía a las peculiaridades de cada país, envueltos en la dicotomía de la Guerra Fría. También hay...2021-10-2815 min
Meeting ExplorersDamien Gildea - Mapping and climbing virgin peaks in Antarctica and “The 8000-er Mess”.Damien is a contributing editor of the American Alpine Journal, he has worked for the prestigious Pilot d'Or, he has led a team that was following the footsteps of Robert Falcon Scott, he is author of several books and an avid Antarctica explorer who is combining his aptitude for vanquishing virgin peaks with science as he measures their elevation.Together with some researchers, Damien notes that some study “has led to the remarkable situation where it is possible that no one has stood on the true highest point of all the 8,000-meter peaks.” Through meticulous analysis of summ...2021-09-161h 56
Reel HistoryInglourious Basterds (2009) | Vive La Résistance! (1940)
Greetings, partisans, to episode 5 of Reel History Season 2!
Join us as we focus our lens on a bombastic and brilliant tale of ‘a bushwhacking gorilla army doing one thing and one thing only – killing Nazis’. These memorable opening lines are spoken in the southern drawl of Brad Pitt’s Lieutenant Aldo in the alternate history war film ‘Inglourious Basterds’ (2009).
Quentin Tarantino stamps his trademark style on this classic revenge flick set once upon a time in Nazi occupied France to the tune of David Bowie singing “putting out fire with gasoline”.
Expertly cast and shot, this f...2021-05-181h 15
10-Minute TalksThe miners’ strike of 1984-85The miners’ strike of 1984-85 can be considered the last great battle of the organised industrial working class in the UK. The defeat of the strike led to deindustrialisation, the rapid closure of pits, the redundancy of the miners and the hollowing out of mining communities which impacts politics to this day.In this talk, Robert Gildea examines the miners’ strike through the lenses of class, community, and family, how it was both a performance and crisis of masculinity, and how the men and women involved reinvented themselves afterwards.He is currently writing an oral hist...2021-04-1411 min
Les Racines du présentFrance et Angleterre, leur passé colonial en questionComment, en France comme au Royaume-Uni, le passé colonial conditionne la politique actuelle? C'est ce que nous explique l'historien anglais Robert Gildea.Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.2020-08-1423 min
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesEmpires of the MindBook at Lunchtime: Empires of the Mind 'The empires of the future would be the empires of the mind' declared Churchill in 1943, envisaging universal empires living in peaceful harmony. Robert Gildea exposes instead the brutal realities of decolonisation and neo-colonialism which have shaped the postwar world. Even after the rush of French and British decolonisation in the 1960s, the strings of economic and military power too often remained in the hands of the former colonial powers. The more empire appears to have declined and fallen, the more a fantasy of empire has been conjured up as a model for projecting...2020-01-2947 min
In Our Time: HistoryThe Siege of Paris 1870-71Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian war and the social unrest that followed, as the French capital was cut off from the rest of the country and food was scarce. When the French government surrendered Paris to the Prussians, power gravitated to the National Guard in the city and to radical socialists, and a Commune established in March 1871 with the red flag replacing the trilcoleur. The French government sent in the army and, after bloody fighting, the Communards were defeated by the end of May 1871.The image above is from an...2020-01-1652 min
In Our TimeThe Siege of Paris 1870-71Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian war and the social unrest that followed, as the French capital was cut off from the rest of the country and food was scarce. When the French government surrendered Paris to the Prussians, power gravitated to the National Guard in the city and to radical socialists, and a Commune established in March 1871 with the red flag replacing the trilcoleur. The French government sent in the army and, after bloody fighting, the Communards were defeated by the end of May 1871.The image above is from an...2020-01-1652 min
RSDS RADIO SOCIETÀ DEI SOGNIThe Siege of Paris 1870-71Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian war and the social unrest that followed, as the French capital was cut off from the rest of the country and food was scarce. When the French government surrendered Paris to the Prussians, power gravitated to the National Guard in the city and to radical socialists, and a Commune established in March 1871 with the red flag replacing the trilcoleur. The French government sent in the army and, after bloody fighting, the Communards were defeated by the end of May 1871.The image above is from an engraving...2020-01-1652 min
In Our TimeThe Siege of Paris 1870-71Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian war and the social unrest that followed, as the French capital was cut off from the rest of the country and food was scarce. When the French government surrendered Paris to the Prussians, power gravitated to the National Guard in the city and to radical socialists, and a Commune established in March 1871 with the red flag replacing the trilcoleur. The French government sent in the army and, after bloody fighting, the Communards were defeated by the end of May 1871.
The image above is from an engraving of the...2020-01-1652 min
The Hedgehog and the FoxRobert Gildea on colonialism’s lingering legacyThis week, we ask, are Britain and France still trapped in their own myth-making about their colonial pasts? My guest on the programme is Robert Gildea, who is professor… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2019-07-1744 min
National Library of Australia1968: Then and NowThe generation that made 1968 sought to change the world and to change themselves, shaped by three political conflicts—the Second World War, the Cold War and the Third World Revolution—and the youth cultural revolution of the 1960s. Paris is generally seen to be the epicentre of protest in 1968, but it was just one site of a global revolt that stretched from Mexico to Prague and from Belfast to Cape Town.
Professor of Modern History Robert Gildea (University of Oxford) examines the May 1968 protests in France and the impact that continues to be felt 50 years on.2018-07-1857 min
In Our Time: HistoryTocqueville: Democracy in AmericaMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) and his examination of the American democratic system. He wrote De La Démocratie en Amérique in two parts, published in 1835 and 1840, when France was ruled by the July Monarchy of Louis-Philippe. Tocqueville was interested in how aspects of American democracy, in the age of President Andrew Jackson, could be applied to Europe as it moved away from rule by monarchs and aristocrats. His work has been revisited by politicians ever since, particularly in America, with its analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of direct democracy and its warnings of me...2018-03-2250 min
In Our Time: PhilosophyTocqueville: Democracy in AmericaMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) and his examination of the American democratic system. He wrote De La Démocratie en Amérique in two parts, published in 1835 and 1840, when France was ruled by the July Monarchy of Louis-Philippe. Tocqueville was interested in how aspects of American democracy, in the age of President Andrew Jackson, could be applied to Europe as it moved away from rule by monarchs and aristocrats. His work has been revisited by politicians ever since, particularly in America, with its analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of direct democracy and its warnings of...2018-03-2250 minIn Our TimeTocqueville: Democracy in AmericaMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) and his examination of the American democratic system. He wrote De La Démocratie en Amérique in two parts, published in 1835 and 1840, when France was ruled by the July Monarchy of Louis-Philippe. Tocqueville was interested in how aspects of American democracy, in the age of President Andrew Jackson, could be applied to Europe as it moved away from rule by monarchs and aristocrats. His work has been revisited by politicians ever since, particularly in America, with its analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of direct democracy and its warnings of me...2018-03-2250 minIn Our TimeTocqueville: Democracy in AmericaMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) and his examination of the American democratic system. He wrote De La Démocratie en Amérique in two parts, published in 1835 and 1840, when France was ruled by the July Monarchy of Louis-Philippe. Tocqueville was interested in how aspects of American democracy, in the age of President Andrew Jackson, could be applied to Europe as it moved away from rule by monarchs and aristocrats. His work has been revisited by politicians ever since, particularly in America, with its analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of direct democracy and its warnings of...2018-03-2250 minRSDS RADIO SOCIETÀ DEI SOGNITocqueville: Democracy in AmericaMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) and his examination of the American democratic system. He wrote De La Démocratie en Amérique in two parts, published in 1835 and 1840, when France was ruled by the July Monarchy of Louis-Philippe. Tocqueville was interested in how aspects of American democracy, in the age of President Andrew Jackson, could be applied to Europe as it moved away from rule by monarchs and aristocrats. His work has been revisited by politicians ever since, particularly in America, with its analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of direct democracy and its warnings of me...2018-03-2251 minIn Our Time: HistoryTocqueville: Democracy in AmericaMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) and his examination of the American democratic system. He wrote De La Démocratie en Amérique in two parts, published in 1835 and 1840, when France was ruled by the July Monarchy of Louis-Philippe. Tocqueville was interested in how aspects of American democracy, in the age of President Andrew Jackson, could be applied to Europe as it moved away from rule by monarchs and aristocrats. His work has been revisited by politicians ever since, particularly in America, with its analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of direct democracy and its warnings of...2018-03-2250 min
Start the WeekFrance SpecialAndrew Marr was in Paris on Friday to record a special edition of Start the Week about France. Hours later the Paris attacks happened. This programme is not about these attacks or Islamic State or the French role in the war in Syria, but it is a conversation about the political, cultural and religious fault lines in France from the 19th century to today.
As BBC Radio 4 plans to broadcast a retelling of Emile Zola's 20 novel cycle, Les Rougon-Macquart, the journalist Anne-Elisabeth Moutet explores whether Zola is a 19th century gateway into understanding modern France. The novelist Agnès D...2015-11-1640 min
History Faculty1968 Then and Now (Slides)Professor Robert Gildea, Lecturer in History in Oxford, gives the Eighth Oxford Historians' Alumni Lecture on his research on political activists in Europe in the 1960s and their experiences during this time.2013-06-1700 minHistory Faculty1968 Then and NowProfessor Robert Gildea, Lecturer in History in Oxford, gives the Eighth Oxford Historians' Alumni Lecture on his research on political activists in Europe in the 1960s and their experiences during this time.2013-06-1700 min
KPFA - Making ContactMaking Contact – Surviving Ex-Gay TherapyThe growth of the ex-gay movement in the last two decades gave rise to hundreds of therapy programs aiming to change people’s sexual orientation. Many were explicitly religious, and claimed to be able to “pray away the gay”. But there’s a growing movement, led by survivors of ex-gay therapy, to disprove and ban these harmful practices for good. On this edition, stories of recovery from conversion therapy, and becoming ex- ex-gay.
Special Thanks to Robert Frazier of Monitor Studios and Terry Gildea of KUER.
Featuring: Russ Gorringe, Kim Mack, Ben Jarvis, Evergreen therapy s...2013-04-1204 minIn Our Time: HistoryThe Dreyfus AffairMelvyn Bragg and guests Robert Gildea, Ruth Harris and Robert Tombs discuss the Dreyfus Affair, the 1890s scandal which divided opinion in France for a generation.In 1894, a high-flying Jewish staff officer in the French Army, one Alfred Dreyfus, was convicted of spying for the Prussians. He was publicly humiliated: before a large Paris crowd, he was stripped of his badges of rank and his sword was ceremonially broken. Some of those watching shouted 'Down with Judas!' Then he was dispatched to Devil's Island. But when it emerged that Dreyfus was innocent, a scandal erupted which engulfed the Army...2009-10-0842 minIn Our TimeThe Dreyfus AffairMelvyn Bragg and guests Robert Gildea, Ruth Harris and Robert Tombs discuss the Dreyfus Affair, the 1890s scandal which divided opinion in France for a generation.In 1894, a high-flying Jewish staff officer in the French Army, one Alfred Dreyfus, was convicted of spying for the Prussians. He was publicly humiliated: before a large Paris crowd, he was stripped of his badges of rank and his sword was ceremonially broken. Some of those watching shouted 'Down with Judas!' Then he was dispatched to Devil's Island. But when it emerged that Dreyfus was innocent, a scandal erupted which engulfed the...2009-10-0842 minIn Our TimeThe Statue of LibertyMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Statue of Liberty."Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”. With these words, inscribed inside her pedestal, the Statue of Liberty has welcomed immigrants to America since 1903. But the Statue of Liberty is herself an immigrant, born in Paris she was shipped across the Atlantic in 214 separate crates, a present to the Americans from the French. She is a token of friendship forged in the fire of twin revolutions, finessed by thinkers like Alexis de Tocqueville and expressed in the shared language of liberty. But why was th...2008-02-1441 minIn Our Time: HistoryThe Statue of LibertyMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Statue of Liberty."Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”. With these words, inscribed inside her pedestal, the Statue of Liberty has welcomed immigrants to America since 1903. But the Statue of Liberty is herself an immigrant, born in Paris she was shipped across the Atlantic in 214 separate crates, a present to the Americans from the French. She is a token of friendship forged in the fire of twin revolutions, finessed by thinkers like Alexis de Tocqueville and expressed in the shared language of liberty. But why was this co...2008-02-1441 minIn Our TimeMadame BovaryMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the literary sensation caused by Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary. In January 1857 a man called Ernest Pinard stood up in a crowded courtroom and declared, “Art that observes no rule is no longer art; it is like a woman who disrobes completely. To impose the one rule of public decency on art is not to subjugate it but to honour it”. Pinard was no grumbling hack, he was the imperial prosecutor of France, and facing him across the courtroom was the writer Gustave Flaubert. Flaubert’s work had been declared “an affront to decent comportm...2007-07-1228 min