Latest Caterham Podcast Episodes
UK Politics: Party Systems
Cooper Talks - December 05, 2023 00:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA look at how we catorgorise UK politicsl parties and what a Party system is and how we could approach an essay defining the type of party system that best describes the UK.
Episode 16: The Cold War: The Collapse of the Warsaw Pact
Cooper Talks - May 01, 2023 00:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode I look at the events in Eastern Europe in 1988-89 that resulted from Gorbachev's New Thinking and how they would lead to the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and freedom and political changes that would effectively end the Cold War in Europe.
Episode 15: The Cold War: Gorbachev and the ending of the Cold War
Cooper Talks - April 28, 2023 00:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA look at Gorbachev and his New Thinking, including rhe impact it had on the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact and the Cold War with America.
Episode 13: The Cold War: Reagan and the Second Cold War
Cooper Talks - April 26, 2023 00:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLooking at Reagan’s more aggressive stance and the beginning of a more aggressive period in the Cold War after Detente.
Episode 14: The Cold War: Changing leaders 1980-85
Cooper Talks - April 26, 2023 00:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA look at the period 1980-85 and the changing leadership in the USSR
Episode 12: The Cold War: Solidarity
Cooper Talks - April 23, 2023 00:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA look at the rise of Solidarity in Poland in the ewrly 1980s, consdering its importance for the rest of the Cold War
Episode 11: The Cold War: The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Cooper Talks - March 23, 2023 00:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAn episode looking at the wvents around the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Sometimes described as the USSR’s Vietnam, it ended detente and drained the USSR leading to the eventual collapse of Communism in Europe.
Episode 10: The Cold War: Detente
Cooper Talks - March 19, 2023 00:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA look at what detente was and why it happened. Its a vague idea thet reflects a concept more than an wvwnt but I’ll be looking at the impact it had on the Cold War, the key events within it and touch in its ending
Episode 7: The History of Western Medicine: Penicillin
Cooper Talks - February 06, 2023 00:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA look at the development of penicillin in the fight against infections.
Episode 6: The History of Western Medicine: Lung Cancer
Cooper Talks - January 25, 2023 00:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA look at the attitudes, causes and treatments around lung cancer in the UK targetted for the GCSE course and how it shows the devleopment in medical practice and attitudes.
Episode 8: Russia and the USSR: The Red Terror and moves towards totalitarianism
Cooper Talks - January 10, 2023 00:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, which links in with the previous one on the civil war, we look at the developmwnt of oppresive means of control and the rise of the Res Terror as the Bolsheviks establish a totalitarian dictatorship across Russia and the newly established USSR
Episode 7: Russia and the USSR: The Civil War
Cooper Talks - January 08, 2023 00:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA look at the Civil War and its impact on Russia and the Bolsheviks.
Episode 6: Russia and the USSR: How the Bolsheviks secured control
Cooper Talks - January 03, 2023 00:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFollowing on from the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917, we look here at the decrees and actions taken to secure their control over the whole of Russia and how this in turn triggered a rise in anti-Bolshevik opposition that would lead to the Civil War.
Episode 4: Russia and the Soviet Union: The Provisional Government
Cooper Talks - January 02, 2023 00:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA look at the work of the Provisional Government between February and October 1917, covering the early hopes and successes, the military failings, Lenin’s return from exile, the July Days and Kerenskey’s rise. Ultimatley we will see how the Provisional Government failed to take its chanc...
Episode 3: Russia and the Soviet Union: The impact of WWI
Cooper Talks - December 30, 2022 00:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA look at how World War I changed things in Russia, leading to hige discontent and eventually the February Revolution and end of Tsairst rule.
Episode 2: Russia and the USSR: The years before World War I
Cooper Talks - December 26, 2022 00:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA look at the retun to autocratic rule following the 1905 Revolution ans how the Tsar tried to ignore the demands for change. All of this helps explain why, when things went so wrong in World War I it lead to the Tsar losing all control and power in the February Revolution if 1917.
Episode 1: Russia and the Soviet Union: Tsarist background and 1905
Cooper Talks - December 22, 2022 00:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA very quick look at the Tsarist regieme, the problems it faced and of Russia as a whole up to and including the Revolution of 1905.
Episode 5: The History of Western Medicine: Cholera in the 19th Century and John Snow.
Cooper Talks - December 04, 2022 00:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA quick look at Cholera and the outbreaks in 19th century London. The work of John Snow in identifying dirty water as the source and the attempts to improve the water supply.
Episode 4: The History of Western Medicine: Edward Jenner and small pox
Cooper Talks - November 30, 2022 00:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode I take a look at the work of Edward Jenner and the development of vaccines at the end if the 18th centruy and how vaccines became popular and successful at ending small pox in the UK.
Episode 3: The History of Western Medicine: William Harvey
Cooper Talks - November 21, 2022 00:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode we look at the work of William Harvey which disproved Galen’s theory thet the liver pumped blood and made dramatic increases in the development of anatomical understanding and medical reseach, if not in diagnosis and treatment during the 17th century.
Episode 2: The History of Western Medicine: The Great Plague of 1665
Cooper Talks - November 20, 2022 00:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOne of the medicine case studies we look at the last major outbreak of the bubonic plague in England, known as the Great Plague of 1665. A different outbreak but the same disease as afflcited England during the Black Death, the Great Plague offers a useful comparison between the middle a...
Episode 1: The History of Western Medicine: The Black Death
Cooper Talks - November 09, 2022 00:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA look at Medieval Medicine, focused on England, lookinng at the Black Death as a case study for attitudes and ideas relating to the causes and cures for illness in this time. Though much if it shows the severe limitiations if medieval medicine, some if the new measures may feel familiar...
The Cold War: The Prague Spring
Cooper Talks - April 22, 2022 00:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAn episode looking a the third of three key crises in the middle period of the Cold War. The Prague Spring marks a big test for Brezhnev and parallels the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. Slightly dofferent and showing that, despite Detente, the old super power rivalries were continuing much ...
Episode 9: The Cold War: The Prague Spring
Cooper Talks - April 22, 2022 00:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAn episode looking a the third of three key crises in the middle period of the Cold War. The Prague Spring marks a big test for Brezhnev and parallels the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. Slightly dofferent and showing that, despite Detente, the old super power rivalries were continuing much ...
The Cold War: The Vietnam War
Cooper Talks - April 21, 2022 00:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHere we look at the Vietnam War in summary, covering the causes, origins, path and ultimate faikure of the US to stop the spread of Communism. Very much a highlights episode as the Veitnam War could be an enitre series in its own right, this is designed to give some context and understan...
Episode 8: The Cold War: The Vietnam War
Cooper Talks - April 21, 2022 00:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHere we look at the Vietnam War in summary, covering the causes, origins, path and ultimate faikure of the US to stop the spread of Communism. Very much a highlights episode as the Veitnam War could be an enitre series in its own right, this is designed to give some context and understan...
Episode 7: The Cold War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
Cooper Talks - April 13, 2022 00:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode we look at the events and consequences of the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. This builds on recent podcast episodes thet shows the building of tensions between the USA and USSR from 1959 until they reach their peak here in 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis was possobl...
The Cold War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
Cooper Talks - April 13, 2022 00:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode we look at the events and consequences of the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. This builds on recent podcast episodes thet shows the building of tensions between the USA and USSR from 1959 until they reach their peak here in 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis was possobl...
Episode 6: The Cold War: The Berlin Wall
Cooper Talks - April 11, 2022 00:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode we look at the cosntruction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. We link it back to Potsdam and the changes that had occured in the 1950s as well as the short term causes that ked to the construction of the physical wall. One of the pivitol moments of the Cold Wat with huge symbo...
The Cold War: The Berlin Wall
Cooper Talks - April 11, 2022 00:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode we look at the cosntruction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. We link it back to Potsdam and the changes that had occured in the 1950s as well as the short term causes that ked to the construction of the physical wall. One of the pivitol moments of the Cold Wat with huge symbo...
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