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🗳️new episode out early!🗳️ It's election week and
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
have prepared a special topical treat. Listen to their episode on Keir Starmer now ⬇️
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The time when
#JordanPeterson
critiqued
@Dorianlynskey
's work...
Hear the full episode now, and subscribe so you don't miss Part two:👇
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How and when did Elon Musk make his money?
@Dorianlynskey
and
@IanDunt
compare their careers with the controversial multi-billionaire on the latest episode of Origin Story 👉
#TwitterX
#Threads
#Musk
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@IanDunt
discusses the biggest dangers of religion on the latest episode of
@OriginStorycast
. Do you agree?
Tweet us your thoughts and listen to the full episode here 👉
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Are they conspiracy theorists or just crazy people?
The final episode on climate change deniers with
@Dorianlynskey
and
@IanDunt
is out now 👉
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@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
find out how this self-appointed techno-messiah treated his staff in the NEW episode of Origin Story.
Full episode is available now:
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📢
#JordanPeterson
Pt.2 is now out! 📢
@IanDunt
&
@Dorianlynskey
dive into The
#12RulesOfLife
and discover a strange cocktail of self-help advice, comparative mythology, biological essentialism...and Pinocchio?
Listen here👇
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Hate vaccines but love putting exxxxtra x's in your words? This may not be the podcast for you. Otherwise listen to
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
on the origins of the anti-vaxx movement here:
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"It's almost as if the truth was inconvenient"
If you missed out on
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
's live show reviewing Matthew Goodwin's latest book, you can catch the first half here 👉
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Digging deeper into the enigma that was Winston Churchill, in this first episode
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
reveal his heartbreaking relationship with his parents.
Follow the link to hear the full episode here 👉
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🚨New Episode🚨
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
are back for season 5 of Origin Story! In the season opener they're on top form as they look at the life and work of revered writer George Orwell.
listen now ⬇️
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J. Robert Oppenheimer: Atomic bomb maker, destroyer of worlds ... and poetry-loving, Hindu hippie?
Challenging the myths and busting the stereotypes,
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
reveal the truth about Oppenheimer.
Listen here to Part 1 of Nuclear War 👉
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📣 NEW EPISODE ALERT 📣
The second episode on climate change denial with
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
is burning down the house🔥
Available now:
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The word genocide plays a key role in debates over what is happening in Gaza today.
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
examine the word’s roots and how courts like the
@CIJ_ICJ
determine if atrocities can be defined as genocide.
New Episode out now. Listen ⬇️
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🔉NEW EPISODE ALERT!🔉
Did Winston Churchill really have depression?
@Dorianlynskey
and
@IanDunt
continue to debunk the myths surrounding Winston Churchill in part two of the latest
@OriginStorycast
.
Listen to the whole episode here 👉
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💉new episode💉Opposition to vaccines is nothing new but the term anti-vaxxers has only been around since 2001. Join
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
as they chart the movement's growth into a conspiracy theory.
Listen ⬇️
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This week
@Dorianlynskey
+
@IanDunt
dissect the psyche of
#JordanPeterson
at the height of his fame; a best-selling author and culture warrior.
But do his ramblings make any sense?
Listen here to
#OriginStory
👇
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🚀💥🚀NEW EPISODE 🚀💥🚀
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
take on a living figure for the first time and dissect his descent from 'real life Iron Man' to right-wing troll.
A must-listen 👇
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Imagine... Richard Dawkins covering the Beatles.
A wonderfully weird performance sung by
@Dorianlynskey
and
@IanDunt
.
Check out what on earth they're on about here 👉
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@IanDunt
opens up to
@Dorianlynskey
about his relationship with God and the key appeals of organised religion ... who would have guessed?!?! 🤷♂️
Listen to the full episode of
@OrignStorycast
here 👉
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📢 NEW EPISODE ALERT! 📢
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
discuss the origins of the atomic bomb, the decision to use it and the possible end of the world in the latest episode of Origin Story.
Listen here 👉
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Air CON? The cool air scam we bet you don't know about.
Find out more mind-blowing histories by listening to the full episode of Origin Story with
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
HERE 👉
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Last few tickets left for 💥Origin Story Live💥 at 21 Soho on Tuesday 11th.
Watch
@Dorianlynskey
and
@IanDunt
dismantle the elite - who are they? What do they want?
Tickets are here 👉
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🌟BONUS EPISODE🌟
Hear
@Dorianlynskey
&
@IanDunt
's take on The Elite, and their reactions to hate-reading Matthew Goodwin's book on 'The New British Politics'.
🤫Spoiler alert: this is not for sensitive ears.
Listen here👇
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🌟BONUS NEW EPISODE🌟
@IanDunt
&
@Dorianlynskey
took to the stage to discuss The Elite. Where did it come from? How has it changed over the years?
And why does it always seem to refer to whoever you happen to disagree with?
Listen now👇
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📕 New episode 📘 Inside the Rushdie Affair – free speech, blasphemy, intimidation, community tension and the first international incident based on a work of fiction. With
@Dorianlynskey
&
@IanDunt
Listen 📲
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🎙️ We’re doing a live show! 🎙️ The meaning, best bits, undercurrents and schadenfreude of
#Election24
results with
@IanDunt
&
@Dorianlynskey
– it’s the Origin Story Post-Election Special, 15 July at
@KingsHeadThtr
in London.
Tickets on sale now 🎟️
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📕 New episode 📘 The Rushdie Affair. a tale of artistic freedom colliding with religious dogma and political calculations to turn a work of fiction into an international incident. With
@IanDunt
&
@Dorianlynskey
Listen 📲
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🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
Ever REALLY hated your parents? Well, maybe you're just a millennial ➡️
@IanDunt
and
@DorianLynskey
explain on their latest episode of Origin Story.
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Who does more good in the world... a doctor or a hedge fund manager?
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
discuss the ethics of effective altruism on the latest episode ➡️
#effectivealtruism
#facebook
#sambankmanfried
#crypto
#finance
#economy
#charity
#Doctors
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What can help us to understand George Orwell's writing?
Listen to the full episode with
@Dorianlynskey
and
@IanDunt
to find out more⬇️
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@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
question how they'd react to Churchill's most famous speech.
The latest episode of
@OriginStorycast
is available here 👉
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💥NEW EPISODE💥
@Dorianlynskey
+
@IanDunt
dive into the murky history of eugenics. How did bad science and dangerous politics become so popular?
Available to download now👇
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J.S. Mill – not only a groundbreaking philosopher but also a proponent of the throuple.
Listen to part two of the episodes on J.S. Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill now ⬇️
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@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
delve deeper into Churchill's great sin on
@OriginStorycast
.
Listen to the full episode here 👉
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He's finally done it.
@IanDunt
locks
@Dorianlynskey
in the studio to dive deep into The Dreyfus Affair.
Exclusively for Patreon subscribers, listen here👇
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Special edition!
#Lineker
, Free Speech and The Nazis –
@IanDunt
&
@Dorianlynskey
deal with the flood of bad takes, bad faith arguments and bad ideas that the Lineker affair brought us.
Listen everywhere:
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Is this a bad date, or is this
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
doing a Q and A session for their Patreon supporters ?!?!
Become a member of the Origin Story club here➡️
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🌟NEW EPISODE🌟 Zionism Part two is here 👇
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
find out what happened to Herzl’s utopian vision in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
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📡 LONDON CALLING 📡 Come and see
@IanDunt
&
@Dorianlynskey
live onstage at swank venue
@21Soho
for a special without-a-net edition of Origin Story on Tue 11 July.
Patreon people get discounts:
General sale:
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It's time to find out how
@Dorianlynskey
+
@IanDunt
spent their summer...
Series 4 of Origin Story is out now👇
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How bad does a weapon have to be before it can end all wars?
@Dorianlynskey
and
@IanDunt
delve into the horrific history of superweapons and the origins of the atomic bomb in the latest episode of Origin Story.
Listen here for Nuclear War - Part 1 👉
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🔺👁️ New special 🔺👁️ The
#illuminati
: How did they become the template for every megaconspiracy theory about a one-world government?
@Dorianlynskey
&
@IanDunt
separate the reality from the paranoia – exclusive to Patreon backers.
Sign up to listen 📲
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How to start a movement with
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
. This week's episode of Origin Story looks back at the origins of Zionism, and the man *who thought* he started it all...
For the full episode 👉
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The man who seemed to have everything... except an attractive eyebrow.
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
discuss John Maynard Keynes's economics, philosophy and the deeply offensive slander of his eyebrows in the latest episode of Origin Story ➡️
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6
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NEW SERIES!
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
return with more deep dives into the political concepts and people that shape the world.
First up, CHURCHILL: Icon or villain… or is he both? Find out in our first Origin Story two-parter.
Listen everywhere:
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🚨new episode🚨The second part of
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
's exploration of the origins of genocide takes in the Nuremberg trials and asks why so many horrendous offences don't qualify as genocide.
listen now ⬇️
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📢NEW SERIES ALERT!📢
Origin Story is back for Series 4!🙌
@Dorianlynskey
+
@IanDunt
immediately climb into the lion's mouth with a two-parter on die-hard culture warrior
#JordanPeterson
🎧Pt.1 👇
Sign up to Patreon for Pt.2 now👇
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It's the perfect mug for these happy times!
Exclusive new Origin Story mugs are now available, with 10% off for
#BlackFriday
👇
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Want to hear next week's episode, Part 2 of
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
's Churchill exploration, right now? Patreon backers get every show a week early – with no ads.
Sign up to listen now:
2
9
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“This episode includes some of the most depraved research we’ve ever had to do…” A new Patreon-exclusive edition with
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
, out right now.
Sign up to listen now. Series 3 coming soon:
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📡NEW EPISODE! 🎧
@Dorianlynskey
and
@IanDunt
dive into the complicated and provocative Origin Story of Zionism.
Listen here 👉
5
6
20
🏛️ New special 🏛️ The
#illuminati
: How did a powerless club of intellectuals become reimagined as the secret rulers of the world?
@Dorianlynskey
&
@IanDunt
separate the reality from the Ickean lunacy – exclusive to Patreon backers.
Sign up to listen
3
6
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☯️New episode, exclusive to Patreon supporters ☯️ Why are we so addicted to seeing politics in terms of left and right?
@Dorianlynskey
&
@IanDunt
on the genesis of our binary worldview
Sign up to back us and get it now 📲
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#OriginStory
has never held back from examining the tough topics and this season has been explosive.
@IanDunt
&
@Dorianlynskey
answer your questions in a 💥Live Zoom Q+A💥 exclusive to Patreon subscribers:
⏰Tuesday 1st August @ 7pm⏰
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3
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Are we about to enter a new Keynesian era?
Part two of Origin Story: John Maynard Keynes is live now👇
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5
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Keir Starmer navigated those awkward teenage years in his own unique way.
Listen to
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
's full episode on Keir Starmer here:
1
9
18
Missing your regular shot of Origin Story? Get a new, Patreon-exclusive special Q&A edition with
@IanDunt
&
@Dorianlynskey
right now when you sign up to back the podcast:
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📡 ORIGIN STORY LIVE! 📡 See
@IanDunt
&
@Dorianlynskey
onstage at smart venue
@21Soho
for an actual human meat-space edition on Tue 11 July.
On the agenda: The Elite, the worst misuse of political language, and more.
Patreon people get discounts:
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5
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🎙️ Origin Story live on stage! 🎙️ It’s an
#Election24
aftermath epic. Join
@IanDunt
&
@Dorianlynskey
as they pick over the corpse of Conservatism – Mon 15 July at
@KingsHeadThtr
, London.
Tickets on sale now 🎟️
1
3
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Why do you always have to behead your sister ?
@Dorianlynskey
and
@IanDunt
on the origins of Zombie films and what it should tell us about ourselves ➡️
#zombies
#podcast
#history
#podcast
#Apocalypse
#politics
#TheLastOfUs
#film
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Hello, we’re gutted to have to say that the livestream of tonight’s live show will not be able to go ahead due to insurmountable technical difficulties. We are really sorry and hope you are not too disappointed. We will be getting audio and video to all Patreons ASAP. 1/2
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It's time to sit up and take notice of JMK as he pens his seminal work and changes the world forever.
Part Two of Origin Story: John Maynard Keynes is out now👇
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📕 New episode 📘 The Rushdie Affair: how the Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa against Salman Rushdie made The Satanic Verses the most famous novel in the world — for all the wrong reasons. With
@Dorianlynskey
&
@IanDunt
Listen 📲
1
5
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Never say
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
don't keep their word...a BONUS
#OriginStory
episode has just dropped.
Listen to Oppenheimer: Fallout here👇
8
3
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🚨New Episode Out🚨
In the first of another two-parter
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
discuss John Stuart Mill's upbringing, his controversial love affair with Harriet Taylor and the role that she played in his ideas and works.
Listen now ⬇️
1
4
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🔊 NEW EPISODE ALERT 📷
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
's *hot* new podcast investigates climate conspiracists and warmer weather.
Follow the link to listen here 👉
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🚪New bonus episode out🚪
Origin Story profiles its first building: Number 10 Downing Street. Join
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
as they celebrate the paperback release of Ian's book How Westminster Works ... and Why It Doesn't.
listen➡️
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It's rare, but sometimes
@Dorianlynskey
and
@IanDunt
will even offer up insights on the housing market.
Listen to the George Orwell two-parter now ⬇️
2
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‼️ Origin Story: Live in London ‼️ Join
@IanDunt
&
@Dorianlynskey
to launch their new series with a live show on Tue 7 May. Brand new material! Brand new gags!
Tickets on sale now and going fast 🎟️
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5
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💥NEW EPISODE💥
@IanDunt
+
@Dorianlynskey
take on the most powerful cohort of all: the Baby Boomers 🧓👴
Credited and blamed for the world we live in, are they unfairly judged? Who would win in a war between them and the Millenials?
Listen now👇
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2
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💥NEW EPISODE💥
Eugenics: part two is out now.
@IanDunt
+
@Dorianlynskey
discuss how the pseudo-science of “racial hygiene” seduces everyone from feminist birth-control pioneers to white supremacists.
Then it gets so much worse.
Listen now👇
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☯️New episode, exclusive to Patreon supporters ☯️ The left-right binary is crude, infuriating and actively damaging. So why can’t we quit it, ask
@Dorianlynskey
&
@IanDunt
…
Sign up to back us and get it now 📲
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3
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If you're grieving the end of
#OriginStory
Series 3 you can listen now to
@IanDunt
&
@Dorianlynskey
's full debrief now on Patreon:
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🔉NEW EPISODE ALERT! 🔉
This week on
@OriginStorycast
,
@Dorianlynskey
and
@IanDunt
talk about holy wars, atheism's pitfalls, and existential crises.
Listen to the latest episode here 👉
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3
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A bona fide theory, a handy metaphor or just a political insult?
@Dorianlynskey
&
@IanDunt
get inside
#HorseshoeTheory
in a Patreon special.
Listen here👇
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5
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🌍💥Special edition 🌍💥 Writing about the end of the world –
@Dorianlynskey
’s new book
#EverythingMustGo
looks at how fiction visualises the apocalypse. He tells
@IanDunt
all about it… while he still can.
Listen 📲
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Listeners take note; please submit all future feedback via Lego
@OriginStorycast
@Dorianlynskey
@IanDunt
Okay, please don't judge me. But I've created a little homage to your recent Keynes two-parter: here are
#Keynes
and
#Hayek
on the roof of King's College Chapel in 1942 - created in the medium of Lego.
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🚨 New episode 🚨 How, where and why
#genocide
began. From the Old Testament and Greek myth via Carthage and the Crusades to the Age of Empire,
@IanDunt
&
@Dorianlynskey
chart the genesis of the ultimate crime.
Listen everywhere 📲
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📚 New Episode Out 📚
Join
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
for part two of their look at J.S. and Harriet Mill. This episode features the single most important liberal book ever written and how J.S. Mill became a woke warrior late in life.
listen now 🔽
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Hear
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
dissect the fascinating Origin Story of a divided Zionism. 👇
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Thanks so much for your understanding and patience. We were really looking forward to sharing the show with listeners everywhere – but now it will have to be in recorded form instead. Huge apologies from the team. 2/2
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📚 Patreon exclusive! 📚 Is the right side of history a useful account of events, empty moral posturing or a desperate plea to the future to sort things out?
@Dorianlynskey
&
@IanDunt
thrash it out
Sign up and listen 📲
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@Mr_Seaside
@Dorianlynskey
@IanDunt
This is incredible! Perhaps your next project could feature two certain podcast presenters...?
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Special Patreon exclusive edition! How did the Stop The War movement change from a massive popular protest to a fringe group that excuses Putin?
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
look at its tangled story.
Exclusive to Patreon backers. Sign up to listen:
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🚨 New episode 🚨
In part two of
@Dorianlynskey
and
@IanDunt
's look at George Orwell they pick up the story in 1941 with Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four on the horizon.
listen now ⬇️
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🎉📣 NEW SERIES ALERT! 📣 🎉
Dorian and Ian are BACK with a new series of Origin Stories, starting with an unmissable two-parter on Winston Churchill.
Listen here 👉
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🔉 New episode 🔉 Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa against Salman
#Rushdie
made The Satanic Verses the most famous novel in the world — for all the wrong reasons.
@Dorianlynskey
and
@IanDunt
tell the whole story from all angles.
Listen 📲
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⏰NEW EPISODE⏰
@Dorianlynskey
+
@IanDunt
discuss the most extraordinary man they've encountered so far; a maverick thinker and one of the famous Bloomsbury Set who would go on to change the world.
Listen to Pt.1 of Origin Story: John Maynard Keynes👇
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If you've seen
#Oppenheimer
this weekend and want to hear the fascinating Origin Story of nuclear war,
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
can help you out...
🎧
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‼️ ORIGIN STORY Live in London ‼️
@IanDunt
&
@Dorianlynskey
celebrate the new series with a live show on Tue 7 May at
@ThePhoenix_W1
.
Spoiler: They’re reading Nadine Dorries’ book so you don’t have to.
Tickets on sale now 🎟️
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‼️ Live in London ‼️ Celebrate a brand new series of ORIGIN STORY at
@IanDunt
&
@Dorianlynskey
’s live show on Tue 7 May. On the agenda: What drove the Tories conspiracy-mad?
Tickets on sale now 🎟️
1
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“Race Theory and Immigration – What Hitler learned from America”. A new Patreon-exclusive podcast with
@IanDunt
and
@Dorianlynskey
is out right now.
Sign up to listen now. Series 3 coming soon:
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🚨 Can’t make ORIGIN STORY LIVE this Tue 7 May? 👩🏽💻 Don’t worry, we’re streaming it LIVE for Patreon people 🧑🏼💻 Sign up to join
@Dorianlynskey
&
@IanDunt
for a gala season-opener:
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3
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🎙️ Live show news! 🎙️ Come revel in the
#Election24
results with
@IanDunt
&
@Dorianlynskey
at the Origin Story Post-Election Special, 15 July at
@KingsHeadThtr
in London.
Tickets onsale now 🎟️
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Origin Story live at
@ThePhoenix_W1
is now SOLD OUT… New series with
@IanDunt
&
@Dorianlynskey
starting soon.
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A new science podcast launches from
@PodmastersUK
today with three excellent episodes.
Full of mind-blowing facts, not least what the Mafia, Royal family lineage and lemons all have in common...
Take a trip to the edge of knowledge...
Full episode available now👇
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