The EI Podcast

The EI Podcast brings you weekly conversations and audio essays from leading writers, thinkers and historians. Hosted by Alastair Benn and Paul Lay. Find the EI Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or search The EI Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.

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A helicopter is pushed off the overcrowded deck of the aircarft carrier USS Hancock (CV-19) off the coast of South Vietnam during the fall of Saigon.
Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta.
A double portrait of Mozaffar al-Din Shah, the fifth Qajar shah of Iran.
Walter Sickert's Easter Monday.
During the Soviet-Finnish war (1939-1940) skiers of the Finnish army in white camouflage made lightning and effective attacks on units of the Red Army.
Leonidas at Thermopylae, by Jacques-Louis David, 1814.

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