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“Normally I enjoy this podcast, and really enjoyed the Turing series, but Peter’s constant pro-Thatcher heavily opinionated defences of her has become painful to listen to, especially by the last episode. I find it pretty vile and extremely surprising to hear such defences of her, especially to do with privatisation. Being from Merseyside, seeing the destruction she caused first-hand, and listening to this with my Irish flatmate no less, we have been agog at some of the thoughts shared. I can tell that Peter comes from a certain background that benefitted from Thatchers vulgarity. The fact he cannot, as a historian, remain at least slightly unbiased and see where the other side is coming from, really makes me question the quality of work put in on this series, unfortunately.
Afua I feel did a fairly ok job in countering this, but so much was contradictory: eg Afua making the claim that Thatcher had no plan for miners after shutting down the mines, followed immediately by Peter saying that one thing you have to applaud about Thatcher is she always had a plan unlike modern politicians. And then that’s just left there. Which one is it?
I was under the impression many agreed that Thatcher left a trail of destruction behind her in the poorer parts of the country, and they have been irrevocably damaged as a result. I detested the discussion of Liverpool, conveniently forgetting that it was revealed that Thatcher had implemented a managed decline of the city, which it is still trying to fix to this day.
I hope in future seasons that the right wing agenda can be kept at bay as you focus more on the historical factual aspect of these people. I could tell that Afua was getting frustrated by this, too.”
Looooooooou123456789 via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
06/22/24
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“I love the way they tell the wider story of these key figures - showing so much contrast, and humanising people we may only think of through the prism of certain key events. I also think it is so important to consider the darker part of these legacies too.”
rossdonald84 via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
06/06/24
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“Content is good, but the number of times the presenters mentioned they went to Oxford **eye roll… a form of imperialism in its own right”
Fergie V. via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/28/24
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“The best cover art I’ve ever seen. Pity about the show.
Incredibly fascinating topics yet badly done. Most of the scripting is poor and uninteresting. Feels like they gave it too an intern who just directly copied GPT.
The sound effects are terribly done. When the hosts do try to offer their...”Read full review »
sam_195 via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
06/24/24
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