David Olusoga’s extraordinary new show: best podcasts of the week

The historian shares the astonishing story of a Peterloo massacre survivor.

Plus, a delightfully wholesome new pod that is ‘Desert Island Discs … for words’ From the People’s History Museum, this series is about the Peterloo massacre in Manchester, 1819, which the host David Olusoga calls the “ground zero of industrial capitalism”.

Touching on systematic disenfranchisement (Manchester didn’t have a single MP) and state-sanctioned violence through the extraordinary story of survivor William Cheatham, it’s an invigorating if sobering listen.

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