We Didn't Start the Fire: The History Podcast

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Subscribers: 257
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Episodes: 135


 Aug 8, 2022

Description

This brand new pop culture history podcast is nothing like anything you've heard before, and it's everything you need to understand the modern world. Katie Puckrik and Tom Fordyce, an American pop culture buff and a British music lover, have taken the smash-hit song by Billy Joel and turned it into a podcast. Billy lists 120 people, places, and things in 'We Didn't Start The Fire', and Katie and Tom will do an episode on every single one to create the most fascinating, random and original history of the post-war world. Over the next two and a half years, we're going to learn about politics, rock 'n' roll, sport, space, television, the Cold War, guided along the way by historians, eyewitnesses, and mega-fans. Billy started it. We're going to finish it. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @spreadthatfire, email us at fire@crowdnetwork.co.uk, and go to spreadthatfire.com to buy merch.

Episode Date
Introducing: Oceans: Life Under Water
Feb 29, 2024
Introducing: Countdown To Dallas
Feb 22, 2024
The Finale: Rock 'n' Roller Cola Wars
Jun 18, 2023
China's Under Martial Law
Jun 11, 2023
Hypodermics on the Shore
Jun 04, 2023
Bernie Goetz
May 28, 2023
Crack
May 22, 2023
AIDS
May 15, 2023
Homeless Vets
May 07, 2023
Foreign Debt
Apr 30, 2023
Heavy Metal Suicide
Apr 23, 2023
Sally Ride
Apr 16, 2023
Wheel of Fortune
Apr 09, 2023
Russians in Afghanistan
Apr 02, 2023
Ayatollahs in Iran
Mar 26, 2023
Terror on the Airline
Mar 20, 2023
Palestine
Mar 13, 2023
Reagan
Mar 06, 2023
Begin
Feb 27, 2023
Punk Rock
Feb 20, 2023
Introducing... Jam Tomorrow
Feb 16, 2023
Watergate with Kurt Andersen
Feb 13, 2023
Woodstock
Feb 06, 2023
Moonshot
Jan 30, 2023
Richard Nixon Back Again
Jan 23, 2023
Ho Chi Minh
Jan 16, 2023
Introducing... The Secret History of the Estonia
Jan 10, 2023
Birth Control
Jan 09, 2023
JFK Blown Away (what else do I have to say?!)
Dec 19, 2022
British Politician Sex
Dec 12, 2022
Malcolm X
Dec 05, 2022
Pope Paul
Nov 28, 2022
Liston beats Patterson
Nov 21, 2022
John Glenn with Dr Kevin Fong
Nov 14, 2022
Ole Miss
Nov 07, 2022
British Beatlemania with Mark Lewisohn (Part I)
Oct 31, 2022
British Beatlemania with Mark Lewisohn (Part II)
Oct 31, 2022
Lawrence of Arabia
Oct 23, 2022
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Oct 16, 2022
Berlin
Oct 09, 2022
(Bob) Dylan
Oct 02, 2022
Stranger in a Strange Land
Sep 25, 2022
Eichmann (Part II) with Holocaust Survivor, Ruth Barnett
Sep 18, 2022
Eichmann (Part I)
Sep 11, 2022
Hemingway
Sep 04, 2022
LIVE: Belgians in the Congo
Aug 28, 2022
Psycho
Aug 21, 2022
Chubby Checker
Aug 14, 2022
Kennedy
Aug 07, 2022
Payola
Jul 31, 2022
Syngman Rhee
Jul 24, 2022
U-2 with Francis Gary Powers Jr.
Jul 17, 2022
Edsel is a no-go
Jul 10, 2022
Castro
Jul 04, 2022
Hula Hoops
Jun 27, 2022
Mafia
Jun 20, 2022
Space Monkey
Jun 13, 2022
Ben Hur
Jun 05, 2022
Buddy Holly
May 30, 2022
Introducing... Where’s My Jetpack?
May 23, 2022
Death of a Rock Star: Buddy Holly
May 22, 2022
Children of Thalidomide
May 16, 2022
Starkweather Homicide
May 09, 2022
California Baseball
May 02, 2022
The French History Podcast: André Malraux, the général De Gaulle, and Kylian Mbappé go to the Panthéon by Pierre Azou
Apr 25, 2022
Charles de Gaulle
Apr 25, 2022
Lebanon
Apr 18, 2022
Bridge on the River Kwai
Apr 11, 2022
Zhou Enlai
Apr 04, 2022
History Daily: The Launch of Apollo 8
Apr 01, 2022
Sputnik
Mar 28, 2022
Kerouac
Mar 21, 2022
Mickey Mantle
Mar 14, 2022
Pasternak
Mar 07, 2022
History Daily: Malcolm X is Assassinated
Mar 04, 2022
Little Rock
Feb 28, 2022
Trouble in the Suez
Feb 21, 2022
Peyton Place
Feb 14, 2022
Princess Grace
Feb 07, 2022
Khrushchev
Jan 31, 2022
Alabama
Jan 24, 2022
Budapest
Jan 17, 2022
Bardot with Caroline O'Donoghue
Jan 10, 2022
Disneyland
Dec 20, 2021
Elvis Presley (Part I)
Dec 13, 2021
Elvis Presley (Part II)
Dec 13, 2021
Introducing History Shorts: Elvis' Last Moments
Dec 12, 2021
Peter Pan
Dec 06, 2021
Davy Crockett
Nov 29, 2021
Brooklyn's Got a Winning Team
Nov 22, 2021
James Dean
Nov 15, 2021
Einstein
Nov 08, 2021
Rock Around The Clock
Nov 01, 2021
Billy
Oct 25, 2021
Dien Bien Phu Falls with Dan Snow
Oct 17, 2021
Dacron
Oct 10, 2021
Toscanini
Oct 03, 2021
Juan Perón
Sep 26, 2021
Roy Cohn
Sep 19, 2021
Communist Bloc
Sep 12, 2021
Campanella
Sep 05, 2021
Rockefeller
Aug 29, 2021
Prokofiev
Aug 22, 2021
Nasser
Aug 15, 2021
Malenkov
Aug 08, 2021
Joseph Stalin
Aug 01, 2021
Santayana Goodbye
Jul 25, 2021
Liberace
Jul 19, 2021
Marciano with Steve Bunce
Jul 12, 2021
England's got a new Queen with Margaret MacMillan
Jul 05, 2021
Vaccine
Jun 28, 2021
Eisenhower
Jun 21, 2021
The Catcher in the Rye with Caroline O'Donoghue
Jun 14, 2021
The King and I
Jun 07, 2021
Brando with Jonathan Ross
May 31, 2021
Panmunjom
May 24, 2021
Sugar Ray with Steve Bunce
May 17, 2021
H-Bomb with Margaret MacMillan
May 10, 2021
Rosenbergs
May 03, 2021
New series: Death of a Film Star (Marilyn Monroe)
Apr 28, 2021
Marilyn Monroe
Apr 26, 2021
South Korea
Apr 19, 2021
North Korea
Apr 12, 2021
Television
Apr 05, 2021
Studebaker
Mar 29, 2021
Richard Nixon
Mar 22, 2021
Joe McCarthy
Mar 15, 2021
Joe DiMaggio
Mar 08, 2021
Walter Winchell
Mar 01, 2021
South Pacific
Feb 22, 2021
Johnnie Ray
Feb 15, 2021
Red China
Feb 08, 2021
Doris Day
Feb 01, 2021
Harry Truman
Jan 25, 2021
Trailer
Jan 15, 2021