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The Vajont Dam Disaster

October 9, 1963. A long-predicted landslide in northern Italy triggers a tsunami-like wave to spill over the Vajont Dam, killing over 2,000 people and constituting one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in history. This episode originally aired in 2023.Support the show ... Show More

16m 38s

Oct 8

Chicago’s Days of Rage

October 8, 1969. The streets of Chicago are turned into a battleground as extreme left-wing student group the Weathermen begins a series of violent protests.Support the show! Join Into History for ad-free listening and more.History Daily is a co-production of Airship and Noiser.G ... Show More

15m 24s

Oct 7

The Battle of Lepanto

October 7, 1571. The Ottoman Empire and the Holy League face off in the last great naval battle before the Age of Sail.Support the show! Join Into History for ad-free listening and more.History Daily is a co-production of Airship and Noiser.Go to HistoryDaily.com for more history ... Show More

16m 1s

Aug 24

76. The Hunt for Pablo Escobar: From Narco to Global Terrorist (Ep 3)

By the late 1980s, Pablo Escobar’s grip on the cocaine trade was unmatched. But a new threat loomed: extradition to the United States. To Escobar, it was a fate worse than death. His answer was brutal - declare open war on the Colombian state. In this episode, Gordon and David tr ... Show More

56m 47s

Aug 17

74. The Hunt for Pablo Escobar: Rise of a Drug Lord (Ep 1)

Colombia in the mid-20th century was a place of beauty and bloodshed - where jungle mountains sheltered rebels, the cities were ruled by oligarchs, and outlaw legends became folk heroes. Into this world stepped Pablo Escobar. Charming, calm, and calculating, he would become one o ... Show More

58m 56s

Sep 2

79. The Hunt for Pablo Escobar: Killing the Cocaine King (Ep 6)

In the final months of 1993, the hunt for Pablo Escobar reached a fever pitch. On the run and isolated, Escobar is under immense pressure from both the Colombian search bloc and the shadowy death squad, Los Pepes. But it is his family, now targeted and in danger, that becomes his ... Show More

56m 53s

Aug 26

77. The Hunt for Pablo Escobar: The Medellin Cartel vs Colombia (Ep 4)

By the autumn of 1989, the hunt for Pablo Escobar and the Medellín cartel was intensifying. With the US military and intelligence agencies now directly involved, a new, more aggressive phase of the War on Drugs had begun. Join Gordon and David as they explore how Escobar, facing ... Show More

50m 52s

Feb 2025

The Spy Who Infiltrated Auschwitz | Pilecki’s Great-Grandson on the Man Behind the Mission | 4

Krzysztof Kosior was thirty when he first felt ready to visit Auschwitz. But since childhood, he had heard stories of his great-grandfather’s time there, and of his journey from unknown soldier to one of Poland’s greatest heroes. Talking to actor and spy novelist Charlie Higson, ... Show More

33m 28s

Aug 31

78. The Hunt for Pablo Escobar: Death Squads & Delta Force (Ep 5)

After walking out of his luxurious prison, Pablo Escobar is back on the run. With the Colombian government humiliated, they turn to the United States for a new kind of help: a specialized, elite force. The answer comes in the form of a Delta Force team. Their mission is to train ... Show More

52m 38s

Aug 19

75. The Hunt for Pablo Escobar: The War on Drugs (Ep 2)

In the early 1980s, Pablo Escobar reinvented himself. He was no longer just the man who could smuggle tonnes of cocaine into Miami - he was the successful businessman, the philanthropist, the proud family man. To the poor, he built homes and football fields. To the powerful, he o ... Show More

56m 9s

Sep 28

86. Mossad Pager Attack: The Long War with Hezbollah (Ep 1)

"The smartphone is a lethal collaborator. " This was the stark warning from Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah in February 2024. In the wake of intense conflict with Israel, the group made a fateful decision to abandon high-tech communications. They knew that their phon ... Show More

52m 11s

Sep 20

Subverting Syria: Dark Histories of US Empire w/ Patrick Higgins

This episode is a release of our sister program The Adnan Husain Show. Adnan discusses a crucial history of US subversion of Syria's sovereignty even before the conclusion of WW2 starting with interference and covert operations by the OSS precursor to the CIA and then through the ... Show More

1h 18m

Sep 30

87. Mossad Pager Attack: Crippling Hezbollah (Ep 2)

Hezbollah thought they’d found the perfect solution to Israeli surveillance: the pager. In the midst of their paranoia, they negotiated a cut-price deal for thousands of new devices, but what they received was a trap. The mass explosions on September 17 2024, injured 3,000 people ... Show More

47m 34s