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Rearview Mirror Chronicles
Keith Hockton
126 episodes
1 day ago
Send us a text Ronald Reagan. The smiling cowboy president who told Americans he would make their country great again, long before that slogan returned to stalk the halls of power. But behind that easy grin was a far more complex figure, and in this episode I step into the darker rooms of his legacy. Reagan sold a dream of American renewal, but for many it came wrapped in fear, austerity, and a widening gulf between those who had plenty and those who were quietly abandoned. His tax cuts rewir...
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Send us a text Ronald Reagan. The smiling cowboy president who told Americans he would make their country great again, long before that slogan returned to stalk the halls of power. But behind that easy grin was a far more complex figure, and in this episode I step into the darker rooms of his legacy. Reagan sold a dream of American renewal, but for many it came wrapped in fear, austerity, and a widening gulf between those who had plenty and those who were quietly abandoned. His tax cuts rewir...
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Rearview Mirror Chronicles
Regan - Let's Make America Great Again
Send us a text Ronald Reagan. The smiling cowboy president who told Americans he would make their country great again, long before that slogan returned to stalk the halls of power. But behind that easy grin was a far more complex figure, and in this episode I step into the darker rooms of his legacy. Reagan sold a dream of American renewal, but for many it came wrapped in fear, austerity, and a widening gulf between those who had plenty and those who were quietly abandoned. His tax cuts rewir...
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6 days ago
39 minutes

Rearview Mirror Chronicles
The British Raj Shattered - Five Partitions - Borders Redrawn in Blood and Dust
Send us a text Millions displaced. Millions dead. Borders redrawn in blood and dust. Between 1937 and 1971, South Asia was shattered, not once, but five times. From Burma’s separation to the birth of Bangladesh, the British Raj fractured into new nations, each carrying the scars of migration, memory, and loss. In this episode of Rearview Mirror Chronicles, we trace the story of Shattered Lands: The Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia, a journey through the chaos of empire, the dream...
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1 week ago
35 minutes

Rearview Mirror Chronicles
The South Sea Bubble – The Madness of Men
Send us a text In 1720, London lost its mind. Merchants, maids, dukes, and kings all chased the same glittering dream, a company that promised riches from the farthest seas. But what began as a daring new financial experiment became one of the greatest scandals in history. The South Sea Bubble wasn’t just a crash, it was a mirror held up to human greed, belief, and folly. This is the story of a nation that invented the modern stock market, fell for its own illusion, and paid the price in ruin...
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1 week ago
37 minutes

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Lady Emma Hamilton – Love, Loss, and Legend - Part Three
Send us a text In this final episode of the Nelson and Emma saga, the guns fall silent — but the story is far from over. As the smoke clears at Trafalgar, Britain gains its greatest hero, and Emma Hamilton loses everything she loves. Keith Hockton takes you from the decks of HMS Victory to the quiet despair of Merton Place and the lonely exile of Calais, tracing the final years of the woman who once held the heart of an empire. It’s a story of love and loss, of fame’s cruel fickleness, and of...
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2 weeks ago
13 minutes

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Admiral Horatio Nelson – The Man Who Loved Emma - Part Two
Send us a text Last time, we told the story of Lady Emma Hamilton, the woman who loved Nelson. This time, we tell the story of the man who loved her back… and the battle that would make him immortal. It’s September, 1805. England waits in fear of invasion. Across the Channel, Napoleon’s armies are massing, and one man stands between Britain and disaster. Horatio Nelson. He’s older now, exhausted, worn thin by years at sea. But he’s still burning, for his country, for victory, and above all, f...
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2 weeks ago
1 hour 6 minutes

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Lady Emma Hamilton - The Woman Who Loved Nelson - Part One
Send us a text You know, every so often, history gifts us a character so dazzling, so impossible, that they almost seem invented. Lady Emma Hamilton was one of them. Born into poverty, she reinvented herself again and again, actress, artist’s muse, courtesan, and eventually, the most famous mistress in England. But Emma wasn’t just a pretty face. She was a survivor, a strategist, and perhaps one of the first true celebrities. She captivated painters, seduced princes, and bewitched a nation. A...
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3 weeks ago
1 hour 10 minutes

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The Darker Side of Samuel Pepys
Send us a text Most people know Samuel Pepys as the man who gave us one of the greatest diaries in English history, a meticulous observer of the Plague, the Great Fire of London, and the Restoration court. A man of reason, order, and astonishing curiosity. But turn the page a little further, and a different Pepys begins to emerge, darker, more conflicted, and all too human. A man who writes not just of kings and fires, but of lust, shame, deceit, and the strange bargains we strike with oursel...
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4 weeks ago
39 minutes

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When the Future Was Beautiful: The Art Deco Story
Send us a text Art Deco, it’s the style that made the future look glamorous. Born from the ashes of the First World War, it captured an age hungry for beauty, speed, and progress. You can see it in the skyline of New York, the sweep of an ocean liner, the shimmer of a cocktail bar at midnight. In this episode, we dive into the world of Art Deco, the movement that turned industry into elegance and gave modernity its first true sense of style. From Paris to Penang, from Chrysler spires to Bakel...
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1 month ago
37 minutes

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Spain on Fire: The Spanish Civil War
Send us a text In the summer of 1936, a group of generals launched a coup to save Spain from its own democracy. What followed was a nightmare. The Spanish Civil War would claim half a million lives and divide a nation for generations. From Franco’s ruthless rise to the bombing of Guernica, from the dreams of the Republic to the betrayal of the democracies that looked away, this episode unpacks the war that foreshadowed the Second World War, a conflict where poets became soldiers, cities becam...
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1 month ago
56 minutes

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The Magna Carta: A Promise That Endured
Send us a text In the summer of 1215, a bad-tempered king met his match in a field by the Thames. Surrounded by rebellious barons, King John of England was forced to seal a document he barely understood, one that would outlive him by centuries. The Magna Carta wasn’t meant to change the world. It was supposed to be a quick fix, a peace treaty. But instead, it planted a radical idea: that no one, not even the king, is above the law. In this episode, we go back to Runnymede, to the mud, the pol...
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1 month ago
36 minutes

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Sunday Bloody Sunday
Send us a text Two Sundays, fifty years apart, changed Ireland forever. In Dublin, 1920, Michael Collins’s men struck at dawn, assassinating British agents. By afternoon, Croke Park ran red with blood as Crown forces opened fire on a football crowd, killing men, women, and children. Half a century later, in Derry, 1972, British paratroopers shot down unarmed civil rights marchers, reigniting the Troubles and inspiring U2’s haunting anthem Sunday Bloody Sunday. This episode unravels both trage...
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1 month ago
51 minutes

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Victoria's Secret
Send us a text A widowed queen, a loyal servant, and a friendship that defied every convention of the Victorian age. In this episode, we uncover the unlikely bond between Queen Victoria and John Brown, a relationship whispered about in drawing rooms, condemned in newspapers, and immortalised in legend. Was Brown simply her devoted attendant, or something far more intimate? From the windswept Highlands to the corridors of Windsor, we follow the trail of letters, estate inventories, and r...
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1 month ago
37 minutes

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The Colosseum: Power, Glory, and Death
Send us a text For nearly 2,000 years, this colossal arena has stood as Rome’s most breathtaking monument to spectacle, power, and blood. In its day, the Colosseum wasn’t just a stadium—it was a machine built for awe. Here emperors staged games that made the entire empire gasp: gladiators battling to the death, wild beasts from Africa unleashed before roaring crowds, and the Roman people fed a steady diet of violence, theatre, and politics disguised as entertainment. But the Colosseum is more...
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2 months ago
1 hour 2 minutes

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Edinburgh Castle: Scotland’s Dark Heart
Send us a text Picture this. You’re standing on a black volcanic rock, the wind clawing at your coat, the sound of bagpipes drifting faintly from somewhere down on the Royal Mile. Ahead of you, looming over the city like a brooding giant, is Edinburgh Castle. Its stone walls, scarred by centuries of fire, rebellion, and siege, rise from the crag as if carved by some ancient hand. This isn’t just a fortress. It’s the beating heart of Scotland’s story. Here kings were crowned, traitors were exe...
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2 months ago
27 minutes

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Notre Dame: The Soul of Paris
Send us a text Bells ringing across the Paris skyline, echoing over the Seine, rolling like thunder through eight centuries of history. At the very heart of the city, at the heart of France itself, stands a masterpiece: Notre Dame. It has seen kings crowned, revolutions rage, and fire nearly bring it to its knees. This isn’t just a cathedral. It is a witness to history, a stage for triumph and tragedy, faith and fury, art and ambition. Today, we step through those ancient doors. We climb into...
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2 months ago
43 minutes

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The Congo - Leopolds Downfall - Part Three
Send us a text In the final chapter of our Congo series, King Leopold’s dark empire begins to unravel. From the Antwerp docks, a young shipping clerk named Edmund Dene Morel uncovers a deadly secret, a trade built not on goods, but on guns, blood, and severed hands. His relentless campaign, joined by the voice of Roger Casement and the pen of Mark Twain, turns the Congo into the first great human rights scandal of the twentieth century. But Leopold fights back, with lobbyists, bribery, and sh...
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3 months ago
54 minutes

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The Congo - A Society of Murderers - Part Two
Send us a text Picking up from the blood-soaked ivory trails of Part One, Part Two plunges deeper into King Leopold’s private empire as the hunger for profit shifts from elephant tusks to an even deadlier harvest, rubber. The bicycle boom and the rise of the motor car in Europe turn the Congo’s wild vines into gold, but every drop of latex is wrung from the land through terror. Villages are burned, women taken hostage, and men worked to death. Severed hands, collected in baskets as proof of p...
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3 months ago
1 hour 15 minutes

Rearview Mirror Chronicles
The Congo - The Nightmare Begins - Part One
Send us a text It is one of the darkest chapters in human history, and yet—astonishingly—one of the least known. At the turn of the 20th century, deep in the uncharted heart of Africa, a vast swathe of land nearly eighty times the size of Belgium was transformed into a private slaughterhouse. Not by an empire. Not by a government. But by a single man, King Leopold II of Belgium. This is not just a tale of colonial greed. It’s a story of terror disguised as civilisation. Of rubber quotas enfor...
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3 months ago
1 hour 12 minutes

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Bond - James Bond, and his Watches
Send us a text There’s a reason James Bond makes an entrance like no one else. The tuxedo, the swagger, the one-liners that land like bullets, and of course, the watch. Always the watch. Because in the world of 007, it’s never just about telling the time. Bond’s watches have done more than tick. They’ve detonated charges, fired lasers, unzipped wetsuits, and, every now and then, saved the world. And yet, somehow, they’ve always managed to look devastatingly stylish while doing it. From the Ro...
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3 months ago
20 minutes

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Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury - The Bone Merchant
Send us a text Late Tudor and early Stuart England was a world of whispers and daggers, where faith could cost you your head and loyalty was a currency more precious than gold. It was a time of espionage, betrayal, and uneasy succession, a kingdom teetering between glorious legacy and looming uncertainty. And into that dangerous world stepped a man who looked more like a clerk than a kingmaker. Small, stooped, and sickly, Robert Cecil was easy to underestimate. That was his greatest weapon. H...
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3 months ago
45 minutes

Rearview Mirror Chronicles
Send us a text Ronald Reagan. The smiling cowboy president who told Americans he would make their country great again, long before that slogan returned to stalk the halls of power. But behind that easy grin was a far more complex figure, and in this episode I step into the darker rooms of his legacy. Reagan sold a dream of American renewal, but for many it came wrapped in fear, austerity, and a widening gulf between those who had plenty and those who were quietly abandoned. His tax cuts rewir...