Revolutions (podcast)

Revolutions is a podcast created by Mike Duncan which first aired on 15 September 2013. Each season is dedicated to one revolution or revolutionary wave.[1] The podcast followed a narrative style similar to his podcast The History of Rome, but the shorter time periods for each season allow greater detail for individual events. Each season follows a mostly chronological approach with one or two episodes at the beginning dedicated to the pre-history of the revolution and its causes, sometimes highlighting when and how the revolution could have been avoided.

Revolutions
Presentation
Hosted byMike Duncan
GenreHistory
LanguageAmerican English
LengthMedian 30-45 minutes. 3:35 - 1:44:39 extreme lengths.
Production
Audio formatMP3
Publication
Original releaseSeptember 15, 2013 (2013-09-15) – present
WebsiteOfficial website

Initially, Duncan planned to limit his podcast to 12-15 episodes per revolution, but he ran over that self-imposed limit with the English Civil War and the American Revolution and decided to give up on it for the French Revolution, which ultimately ended up being 54 episodes not counting supplementals. Supplementals are special episodes not counted in the normal number of episodes and of varying length compared to roughly half-hour normal episodes – some of them focus in depth on a particular topic or person, while others are verbatim reproductions of historical texts such as the United States Declaration of Independence or the French Declaration of the Rights of the Man and of the Citizen.

Duncan drew inspiration for the Revolutions podcast out of a deep personal interest from his teenage years, "When I was really getting into history when I was a teenager, the American Revolution was my favorite period of American history. I spent a whole period of time being really into the Russian Revolution."[2]

Seasons
  1. English Revolution, aired September 2013 to January 2014 (16 episodes, 4 supplementals)
  2. American Revolution, aired February to May 2014 (15 episodes, 2 supplementals)
  3. French Revolution, aired July 2014 to November 2015 (55 episodes, 5 supplementals, 1 PSA)
  4. Haitian Revolution, aired December 2015 to April 2016 (19 episodes, 1 supplemental)[3]
  5. Spanish American wars of independence, aired June 2016 to February 2017 (27 episodes, 1 supplemental)
  6. July Revolution, aired March to May 2017 (7 episodes, 5 supplementals)[4]
  7. Revolutions of 1848, aired July 2017 to April 2018 (33 episodes, 0 supplementals)
  8. Paris Commune, airing from May 2018 to June 2018 (8 episodes, 0 supplementals)
  9. Mexican Revolution, airing August 2018 to March 2019 (27 episodes, 0 supplementals)[5]
  10. Russian Revolution, airing from May 2019[5]

Tours

As he had done with The History of Rome podcast, Duncan has run a series of tours to accompany the podcast which visit historical sites mentioned on the show.[6]

Reception

Publications including Time[7], Popular Mechanics[8], and The Guardian [9]have included Revolutions on their lists of recommended podcasts. Benjamin Wittes, after hearing the first two episodes of Revolutions, called the podcast "informative, engaging, told in Duncan's usual easygoing, somewhat comic style that packs a lot of history into relatively brief discussions".[10]

Book

Mike Duncan plans to write a book on the life of the Marquis de Lafayette titled Citizen Lafayette.

Introduction Music

The introduction to each episode is a clip from Joseph Haydn's Symphony 92 (Oxford).

References
  1. "Mike Duncan AskReddit".
  2. Yglesias, Matthew (9 November 2015). "How Mike Duncan turned a passion for history into a podcasting career". Vox.com.
  3. Duncan, Mike (29 November 2015). "4.0 Another Revolutions Podcast Update". Revolutions Podcast. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  4. "Revolutions". Revolutions. Retrieved 2017-04-25.
  5. "9.25 Loyalty and Betrayal". Revolutions. 24 February 2019. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
  6. Thomsen, Michael. "Podcasts Are Doing To Advertising What Uber Has Done To Transportation". Forbes. Retrieved 2017-04-23.
  7. "The Best History Podcasts to Listen to Right Now". Time. Retrieved 2020-01-06.
  8. Hildebr, Eleanor; t (2019-01-17). "These Fascinating Podcasts Will Turn You Into a History Buff". Popular Mechanics. Retrieved 2020-01-06.
  9. Slaney, Rowan (2017-05-26). "Revolutions, self-help and the election – podcasts of the week". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-01-06.
  10. Wittes, Benjamin (24 September 2013). "Revolutions Podcast". LawFare.
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