http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history56.mp3 A history podcast from PRI's The World--each week we'll pick a topic in the news and hit rewind, delving into the past for a bit more context. Hosted by The World's Jeb Sharp. The World is a US-based international news and analysis program co-produced by the BBC, PRI, and WGBH. en-us 2010 Public Radio International Public Radio International Public Radio International interactive@pri.org 60 no history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio, jeb sharp http://www.theworld.org/images/rss/rss_how_we_got_here.jpg http://www.theworld.org http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history67.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history67.mp3 Some big anniversaries this past week: 150 years since the start of the Civil War, and 50 years since the first human in space and the Bay of Pigs. Plus we look at the history behind a court case in Britain alleging atrocities by the British against detainees in Kenya in the 1950's, and an American writer and photographer who documented a tsunami in northeastern Japan more than a century ago. no 34:39 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:00:00 EDT Eliza Scidmore, Caroline Elkins, Yuri Gagarin, Alfredo Duran, Mau Mau, Kenya, empire, Civil War, Brian DeLay, Bay of Pigs http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history66.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history66.mp3 The World's Marco Werman interviews journalist Peter Godwin about his new book The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe. The two discuss how Zimbabwe's predicament compares to that of other African countries in the throes of uprisings against dictatorships. no 20:59 Thu, 7 Apr 2011 16:00:00 EDT Peter Godwin, Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, Arab uprisings, Laurent Gbagbo, Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, Hosni Mubarak http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history65.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history65.mp3 In light of the nuclear crisis in Japan, Brigid McCarthy reminds us what happened at Chernobyl in 1986. Gerry Hadden introduces us to a Berber hero in Morocco and explains where he fits in the contemporary political landscape. And Jason Margolis retells the story of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire a century ago and explains why it's still relevant today. no 17:20 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:00:00 EDT Chernobyl, Ukraine, USSR, Morocco, Spain, Berber, Abd-El Krim, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, New York, sweatshops, fair labor http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history64.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history64.mp3 Marco Werman interviews historian Ronald Bruce St John about the Italian occupation of Libya in the first half of the 20th century, and its resonance today. no 16:06 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:00:00 EDT Libya, Italy, occupation, colonization, Muammar Gaddafi, Ronald Bruce St John http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history63.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history63.mp3 Political scientist Robert Fatton discusses Jean-Bertrand Aristide's role in Haitian history and politics. no 40:11 Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:00:00 EDT Robert Fatton, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Lavalas, Haiti, Bill Clinton http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history62.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history62.mp3 Dirk Vandewalle on Libya and Gaddafi. no 18:25 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:00:00 EDT Dirk Vandewalle, Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, Arab Revolutions http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history61.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history61.mp3 Mona Russell on Women in Egypt and Mike Rapport on 1848. no 28:24 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:00:00 EDT Mona Russell, Mike Rapport, Egypt, women, 1848, history http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history60.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history60.mp3 Lisa Mullins interviews Robert Springborg of the Naval Post-Graduate School in Monterey, California about the Egyptian military. no 14:09 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:00:00 EDT Robert Springborg, Egypt, Egyptian military, Hosni Mubarak, Omar Suleiman http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history59.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history59.mp3 Rebecca Hamilton, author of Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide. no 16:07 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:00:00 EDT Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, Darfur, genocide, Rebecca Hamilton, history, politics, foreign news http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history58.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history58.mp3 Michael Wahid Hanna of the Century Foundation discusses the historical context behind events in Egypt. no 18:42 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:00:00 EDT Hosni Mubarak, Anwar Sadat, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt, history, politics http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history57.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history57.mp3 Wired for War author P.W. Singer gives us some historical perspective on drone warfare no 16:38 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:00:00 EDT P.W. Singer, Wired for War, drones, air strikes, Pakistan, counterterrorism, warfare, technology http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history56.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history56.mp3 Richard Holbrooke and the end of war in Bosnia. no 16:56 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:00:00 EDT Richard Holbrooke, US, Bosnia, war http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history55.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history55.mp3 Radio producer Daniel Estrin on reporting past and present in Germany no 35:22 Fri, 10 December 2010 16:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history54.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history54.mp3 New York Times Reporter David Rohde and his wife Kristen Mulvihill talk about their new book A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides no 25:06 Fri, 03 December 2010 14:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history53.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history53.mp3 Political scientist Severine Autesserre explores violence in the Congo no 36:23 Mon, 22 November 2010 12:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history52.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history52.mp3 A backstory to the Chilean miners saga and an intriguing exhibit on Spanish Civil War photographs no 15:24 Fri, 15 October 2010 16:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history51.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history51.mp3 Judith Armatta talks about her new book Twilight of Impunity: The War Crimes Trial of Slobodan Milosevic no 56:47 Fri, 08 October 2010 16:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history50.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history50.mp3 Yael Hersonski talks about her new documentary, A Film Unfinished. It's the story of the Nazi propaganda footage shot in the Warsaw Ghetto no 29:21 Thu, 26 August 2010 16:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history49.MP3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history49.MP3 Former U.S. Army Captain Blake Hall talks about his time serving in Iraq no 22:15 Fri, 20 August 2010 13:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history48.MP3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history48.MP3 Terrorism expert Jessica Stern explores her own childhood trauma and discovers new insights about terror no 29:28 Thu, 24 June 2010 21:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history47.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history47.mp3 history of Kyrgyzstan, oil spill legacy in Galicia, Tinian and the U.S. military no 19:27 Fri, 18 June 2010 16:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history46.MP3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history46.MP3 Laurent Dubois on his book Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France no 48:43 Wed, 09 June 2010 10:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history45.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history45.mp3 Missing in America, Alissa Quart in Berlin, Oil Spills in WWII no 20:30 Wed, 02 June 2010 16:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history44.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history44.mp3 Rabbi Mark Glickman tells us about his research on the Cairo Genizah, a former repository for medieval Jewish documents no 15:02 Wed, 28 April 2010 16:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history43.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history43.mp3 Historian John Connelly on the 1940 massacre of 20,000 Polish officers by Stalin's forces in WW2 no 25:08 Wed, 14 April 2010 16:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history42.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history42.mp3 Historian Justin Willis on Sudanese elections past and present no 27:01 Tue, 13 April 2010 16:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history41.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history41.mp3 Greg Schulte recalls the U.S. bombing of Serbia in 1999 no 54:31 Fri, 02 April 2010 17:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history40.MP3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history40.MP3 Andrew Gordon, Michelle Gelfand, Erica Hirshler no 17:02 Tue, 16 March 2010 17:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history39.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history39.mp3 The World's Marco Werman interviews Stephen Kinzer about his forthcoming book Reset no 14:17 Fri, 26 February 2010 17:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history38.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history38.mp3 A compilation of recent World radio stories all with historical angles no 13:11 Tue, 23 February 2010 17:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history37.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history37.mp3 We continue our exploration of Haitian history into the 19th and 20th centuries no 45:53 Fri, 05 February 2010 17:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history36.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history36.mp3 Alex Gallafent on Haiti and vodou and Laurent Dubois on the Haitian revolution no 35:01 Fri, 29 January 2010 17:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history35.MP3 http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history35.MP3 A look at the archaeology and history of Yemen with McGuire Gibson, Bernard Haykel and Thomas Kuehn no 48:51 Tue, 19 January 2010 17:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history34.MP3 http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history34.MP3 Maziar Bahari talks about his new film, An Iranian Odyssey: Mossadegh, Oil, and the 1953 CIA Coup no 27:11 Thu, 14 January 2010 17:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history33.mp3 http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history33.mp3 Five stories commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989 no 28:55 Mon, 09 November 2009 16:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history32.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history32.mp3 Soviet women who flew combat missions in WWII, revisiting the Iranian hostage crisis, and the early days of Pakistan no 36:18 Fri, 06 November 2009 16:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history31.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history31.mp3 Gerry Hadden on Nazi traitors, Alex Gallafent on Hamid Karzai then and now, and a bit of Guinean history no 20:53 Thu, 22 October 2009 16:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history30.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history30.mp3 Marco Werman interviews James David Robenalt about his new book The Harding Affair: Love and Espionage During the Great War no 26:58 Mon, 12 October 2009 15:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history29.mp3 http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history29.mp3 Haleh Esfandiari, Peter Maass, Roy Romanow, Anne-Marie Goetz. no 46:53 Thu, 01 October 2009 15:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history28.mp3 http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history28.mp3 Author Jonathan Schell and historian Lawrence Wittner on the history of the nuclear disarmament movement. no 32:26 Fri, 25 September 2009 13:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history27.mp3 http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history27.mp3 The history behind the new U.N. agency for women, a comparison of U.S. debt then and now, and Bertolt Brecht on New York after the 1929 crash. no 29:34 Mon, 21 September 2009 12:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history26.mp3 http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history26.mp3 Svetlana Savranskaya on Russian interpretations of history, Laura Lynch on a reunion of Holocaust survivors, and Marco Werman revisits the musical past of Gabon's new president. no 15:03 Tue, 08 September 2009 16:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history25.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history25.mp3 Ted Kennedy's anti-apartheid legacy, Tracy Kidder's new book Strength in What Remains and a new museum in Warsaw dedicated to the history of Jews in Poland. no 29:59 Fri, 28 August 2009 13:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history24.mp3 http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history24.mp3 A notorious warlord, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, returns from exile to campaign for President Karzai. We look at the history of warlordism in Afghanistan and the implications of Dostum's return. no 21:31 Wed, 19 August 2009 9:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history23.mp3 http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history23.mp3 Journalist Otto Pohl goes back to Moscow to find out who shot him in 1993, Charles Sennott re-examines The Taliban, and Warren Kozak talks about his new biography of General Curtis LeMay. no 56:45 Tue, 05 August 2009 16:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history22.mp3 http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history22.mp3 Former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara dies at the age of 93. We look back on his legacy as an architect of the Vietnam War, and his subsequent soul-searching about that role. no 12:19 Tue, 07 July 2009 11:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history21.mp3 http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history21.mp3 As U.S. forces pull back from Iraqi cities, we look back at Britain's attempts to disentangle from Iraq decades earlier. no 16:02 Tue, 30 June 2009 14:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history20.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history20.mp3 As the crisis in Iran deepens, we explore the history of past protest movements there. no 35:24 Fri, 19 June 2009 13:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history19.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history19.mp3 Africa's longest-serving leader died this week; we look at his country, his life, and his legacy. no 29:57 Fri, 12 June 2009 13:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history18.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history18.mp3 This week's episode offers a compilation of stories--the British car industry 40 years ago, the politics of memory in China, and a journey into the heart of Czech immigrant culture in New York City. no 28:22 Fri, 05 June 2009 15:45:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history17.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history17.mp3 The BBC's James Miles and The Lost Voices of Tiananmen Square. no 47:20 Fri, 29 May 2009 13:45:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history16.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history16.mp3 The World's Clark Boyd introduces us to a graphic novel about Afghanistan in the war-torn 1980's. no 21:20 Tue, 19 May 2009 16:05:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history15.MP3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history15.MP3 Jeb Sharp speaks with David Vine about his book Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia. Find out more at www.theworld.org. no 24:15 Mon, 11 May 2009 16:05:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history14.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history14.mp3 In Episode 14 Jeb Sharp speaks with Marilyn B. Young about her book Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth-Century History. Find out more at www.theworld.org. no 28:10 Mon, 04 May 2009 16:05:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history13.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history13.mp3 In Episode 13 Jeb Sharp speaks with Mia Farrow about her oral history project The Darfur Archives. Find out more at www.theworld.org. no 32:19 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:05:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history12.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history12.mp3 In Episode 12 Marco Werman interviews David Paul Nickles about his book "Under the Wire: How the Telegraph Changed Diplomacy." Find out more at www.theworld.org. no 08:02 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:45:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history11.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history11.mp3 This week on How We Got Here Jeb Sharp looks at how the Rwandan genocide is remembered and memorialized. Find out more at www.theworld.org. no 12:48 Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:15:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history10.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history10.mp3 This week on How We Got Here Svetlana Savranskaya of The National Security Archive examines parallels between the Soviet experience in Afghanistan and the US-led intervention today. Find out more at www.theworld.org. no 25:24 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:15:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history9.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history9.mp3 This week on How We Got Here Clark Boyd takes us to Guatemala and the archives of the former National Police for some historical sleuthing. Find out more at www.theworld.org. no 14:06 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history8.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history8.mp3 This week on How We Got Here Lisa Mullins interviews Rashid Khalidi about his new book Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East. Find out more at www.theworld.org/history-of-the-middle-east. no 21:54 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history7.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history7.mp3 This week on How We Got Here Jeb Sharp looks at the life and times of Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, now wanted on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in the Hague. Find out more at www.theworld.org/sudan. no 23:42 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:30:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history6.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history6.mp3 As President Obama declares his plans for ending the war in Iraq, Jeb Sharp reports on how wars really end and comparisons between the war in Iraq and the American Civil War. Find out more at www.theworld.org/how_wars_end. no 25:30 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:00:00 EST history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history5.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history5.mp3 The fifth installment of our weekly look at the history behind the headlines takes you to Bosnia. The World's Jeb Sharp reports on the destruction and subsequent restoration of a Bosnian mosque. Find out more at theworld.org. no 11:22 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:30:00 GMT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history4.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history4.mp3 In our fourth history-behind-the-news podcast Jeb Sharp discusses the genocide in Cambodia in the 1970's with The World's Mary Kay Magistad and anthropologist Susan Cook. Also we remember Alison Des Forges of Human Rights Watch: historian, human rights investigator and chronicler of the Rwandan genocide. Find out more at theworld.org. no 27:45 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:00:00 GMT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history3.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history3.mp3 In our third history-behind-the-news podcast, Jeb Sharp looks at the British experience in Afghanistan in the 19th century. Find out more at theworld.org. no 8:11 Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:00:00 GMT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history2.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history2.mp3 In our second history-behind-the-news podcast, Jeb Sharp speaks with historian Amin Tarzi about the Khyber Pass linking Afghanistan and Pakistan. Find out more at theworld.org. no 19:28 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:00:00 GMT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history1.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history1.mp3 In our first history-behind-the-news podcast we go back to the 1953 coup in Iran to explore the roots of Iran's grievances against the United States. Find out more at theworld.org. no 18:39 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:00:00 GMT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio