Peter Kropotkin

Misha Glenny and guests discuss the origins and evolution of an alliance which transformed the geopolitics of the classical world: the Delian League. Since the start of the 5th Century BCE, city states across Greece had been fighting a series of armed conflicts in the Greco-Persi ...  Show more

At the Hay Festival, Misha Glenny and guests discuss the impact of the Norman invasion on the people and land of Wales and across the modern border with England in what became known as The Welsh Marches, march being a term for a militarized borderland. Hay was one of the first Ma ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Russian prince who became a leading anarchist and famous scientist. Kropotkin (1842 - 1921) was born into privilege, very much in the highest circle of Russian society as a pageboy for the Tsar, before he became a republican in childhood and dr ...  Show more

Margaret talks to Katie Goldin about the anarchist prince who laid the foundations for understanding cooperation in the wild. https://thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist-features/who-was-peter-kropothkin https://trise.org/2018/01/04/kropotkin-and-climate-change/ https://theanarchis ...  Show more

Margaret continues talking to Katie Goldin about the anarchist prince who laid the foundations for understanding cooperation in the wild. Sources: https://thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist-features/who-was-peter-kropothkin https://trise.org/2018/01/04/kropotkin-and-climate-change ...  Show more

Rasputin’s story is a familiar one – an illiterate Siberian peasant who managed to secure the confidence of the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia, while indulging his legendary sexual appetite and love of hard drinking. Rasputin was so revered by his acolytes that they would collec ...  Show more