Cecil Rhodes | Must Rhodes Fall? | 4

What happens when the nations that invented football start losing their grip on it? How does a team representing a country that doesn't officially exist end up touring the world and unnerving an empire? And why did thirty-one African nations refuse to play at all?Afua and Peter f ...  Show more

How did a game scribbled into rules by Victorian schoolboys end up watched by four billion people? Why do the countries that were colonised take such fierce joy in beating the ones that colonised them? And by the time Mussolini was watching from the stands, was the World Cup ever ...  Show more

Robert is joined by Propaganda to discuss Cecil Rhodes.

1.    https://standpointmag.co.uk/issues/march-2016/features-march-2016-nigel-biggar- ...

Parti de rien, Cecil Rhodes est devenu un homme très riche grâce aux mines d’or et surtout de diamants qu’il contrôle en Afrique du Sud.C’est un ardent partisan de la colonisation et il va contribuer à développer l’impérialisme britannique. Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informa ...  Show more

Robert Maxwell is dead. But how did he die? Was it suicide, an accident or even something more sinister? And will his children ever be able to overcome their toxic inheritance?Listen early and ad free with Wondery+. Join Wondery+ for exclusives, binges, early access, and ad free ...  Show more

One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Colossus of Rhodes has lived on in legend - with fact and fiction often blurring. A 108 ft high statue of the Sun God Helios, it was erected in celebration by the people of Rhodes after successfully defending the island agains ...