Almost History

Ian Chapman-Curry

Almost History. Always incredible. What if ... ? Almost History tells the amazing true stories behind the aborted missions, cancelled plans, utopian dreams, failed revolutions and hubristic designs that didn't quite make it from the drawing board to change the real world. Rescued from the footnotes, archives and passing references, each episode explores what almost happened and explains why it didn't.

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Almost History

Episodes (12)

Jul 12, 2018 Opening the iron curtain - the East Germany's day of dissent
Jun 15, 2017 Operation Unthinkable - Churchill's plan to attack Russia and start a Third World War
Jun 1, 2017 Louis of England - history’s forgotten King of England

Almost History

Jul 12, 2018
20 minutes
18 MB

Send us a text It’s the summer of 1953, and, across East Germany, angry people take to the streets. This isn’t a polite street protest. This is a furious, red flag ripping, police beating, office burning rampage. The crowds demand: - better living conditions; - the reunification of Germany; and - free elections. Instead, they would get: - Trabants; - the Berlin Wall; and - another 35 years of hardline Communist government. Could the 17 June 1953 uprising have ever...

Almost History

Opening the iron curtain - the East Germany's day of dissent

Ian Chapman-Curry

00:00 -19:45