History on Fire

History on Fire

Author: Daniele Bolelli Language: English Episodes: 100
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Where history and epic collide--"History on Fire" is a podcast by author and university professor Daniele Bolelli.
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EPISODE 47: Give Me Back My Legions! (Part 1) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:32:17
“Bits of weapons and horses' limbs lay about, and human heads fixed to tree-trunks. In groves nearby were barbaric altars, where the Germans had laid the tribunes and senior centurions and sacrificed them.” Tacitus “It s…
EPISODE 46: Enjoying Hell: The Life of Ikkyu Sojun (Part 2) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:31:54
“Even if I go to Hell, I’ll find a way to enjoy it.” Ikkyu “Watching my four year old daughter dance, I can’t break free of her. Forgetting my duties, I slip into freedom.” Ikkyu "After ten days in this temple, my mind i…
EPISODE 45 Sex, Sake and Zen: The Life of Ikkyu Sojun (Part 1) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:35:31
“The autumn breeze of a single night of love is better than a hundred thousand years of sterile sitting meditation.” Ikkyu "Thirsty, you dream of water. Cold, you want fire. Not me: I want the firm warm breasts and wetne…
EPISODE 44 Dan Carlin [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:47:50
"You keep using this word. I don't think it means what you think it means." The Princess Bride "Political parties exist to secure responsible government and to execute the will of the people. From these great tasks both…
EPISODE 42: Joan of Arc (Part 4) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:47:25
“It is true that I wished and still wish to escape, as is lawful for any captive or prisoner.” Joan of Arc “I have greater fear of failing my voices in saying something that displeases them than I have of answering you.”…
EPISODE 41: Joan of Arc (Part 3) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:16:24
“We know that everything that she has said has come to pass, that her words are always confirmed by the event—she has in truth come to achieve great things in this world.” Antonio Morosini “Go and camp for today, because…
EPISODE 40: Joan of Arc (Part 2) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:54:45
“Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope.” Star Wars “… No one else, neither a king nor a duke nor the daughter of the king of Scotland, nor any other who can recover the kingdom of France, and he will have no help,…
EPISODE 39: Joan of Arc (Part 1) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:57:34
“No person in the Middle Ages, male or female, has been the subject of more historical studies than Joan of Arc.” Kelly Devries “The life of Joan is such a flagrant beating of the odds that no facts sufficiently explain…
EPISODE 38 Monster in the Darkness [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:23:35
“Not since the panic-ridden days in 1888, when Jack the Ripper was abroad in the East End, had London known such a reign of terror as that which existed in this wartime February...” Scotland Yard Chief Superintendent Fre…

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