Latest Neil oliver Podcast Episodes
Striking It Rich!
Neil Oliver Podcast - January 02, 2024 00:01 - 24 minutesBeyond the dreams of avarice! In this episode George Reynolds and his team of prospectors discover the world’s largest oil field, and as the black gold begins to flow unbelievable wealth, and oil’s by-products totally transform the world. To help support this podcast & get exclusive content eve...
Up, Up & Away!
Neil Oliver Podcast - December 26, 2023 00:01 - 26 minutesTwo magnificent men and their flying machine change the world and our relationship to it. In this episode, it’s 1903, and we travel with Neil to Kitty Hawk in North Carolina to meet Orville and Wilbur Wright. To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to Neil Oliver...
A Terrifying Insight
Neil Oliver Podcast - December 19, 2023 00:01 - 29 minutesA chronic gambler who suffered epileptic seizures all his life and faced the firing squad for disseminating banned literature. This week we travel with Neil to the year 1876 and meet Dostoyevsky as he changed the world of literature. To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every we...
The Man Who Saw Light For What It Is
Neil Oliver Podcast - December 12, 2023 00:01 - 31 minutesIn this episode Neil takes us to Edinburgh, Scotland in the late 1800s to meet a forgotten scientific hero, the physicist, James Clerk Maxwell. To help support this podcast & get exclusive videos every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver Website h...
The ‘Beautiful Game’ is born!
Neil Oliver Podcast - December 05, 2023 00:01 - 29 minutesIn this episode we travel with Neil to London, England as the rules of a sport, that will go viral around the world, are being set down in stone. Philosophy of belonging, passion and sometimes brutality – the ‘Beautiful Game’ is born! To help support this podcast & get exclusive videos every we...
Civil War
Neil Oliver Podcast - November 28, 2023 00:01 - 31 minutesIn this episode we travel to America in 1861 as the new nation begins ripping itself apart. This week Neil draws a devastatingly tragic portrait of Sullivan Ballou as he marches towards the first major battle of the American Civil War - the First Battle of Bull Run. To help support this podcast...
Revolution In The Air!
Neil Oliver Podcast - November 21, 2023 00:05 - 23 minutesThis week we are with Neil in London, England as a document that is just 23 pages long, but is destined to change the world is about to be printed – it’s by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and came to be known as the Communist Manifesto. To help support this podcast & get exclusive videos every ...
Confronted By Our Nature!
Neil Oliver Podcast - November 14, 2023 00:01 - 23 minutesThis week we travel with Neil to Paris in 1838 as Louis Daguerre exposes human nature and it's consequences like never before. To help support this podcast & get exclusive videos every week sign up to [email protected] https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver Website https://www.neiloliver...
The Most Dangerous Man in Britain!
Neil Oliver Podcast - November 07, 2023 00:01 - 36 minutesThe most dangerous man in Britain changes the world forever! This week it’s 1836 and we’re stepping ashore with Neil in New South Wales, Australia to meet Charles Darwin. To help support this podcast & get exclusive videos every week sign up to [email protected] https://www.patreon.com/ne...
Slaves!
Neil Oliver Podcast - October 31, 2023 00:00 - 26 minutesThis week we travel with Neil to Jamacia as Samuel Sharpe, an eloquent and passionate man, calls on his fellow slaves to rise up and seek their freedom! To help support this podcast & get exclusive videos every week sign up to [email protected] https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver My We...
One Billion!
Neil Oliver Podcast - October 23, 2023 23:01 - 24 minutesEither each of us matters or none of us do and if we live amongst a population where too many people think that none of us matter, that’s the road to a dark place! This week Neil takes us on a mystery tour to the turn of the C19th when the world’s population of homo sapiens tops 1 billion mark f...
Loved & feared!
Neil Oliver Podcast - October 16, 2023 23:01 - 26 minutesLoved by his people a charismatic demagogue rises to ultimate power. This week Neil takes us across revolutionary France as Napoleon Bonaparte, a true military genius, becomes emperor. A brilliant soldier and leader, Napoleon captivates his country and makes the rest of continental Europe cower....
Freedom, Equality & Revolution!
Neil Oliver Podcast - October 09, 2023 23:01 - 25 minutesNoble thoughts and the mob are swirling around the city as the streets run red with blood. This week it’s 1789 as we travel with Neil to Paris, France, to witness a moment in history that comes to define the politics of revolution the world over! To help support this podcast & get exclusive con...
Passion & The Foundation Of A Formidable Kingdom!
Neil Oliver Podcast - October 02, 2023 23:01 - 26 minutesMy obsession with this remarkable story changed my life! The ‘fun of the roads’ goes too far and a child is conceived - the ‘little blazing fire’ who becomes king of the Zulu. This week Neil travel to southern Africa to meet the king whose iron rule laid the foundations for his people’s greatnes...
Freedom!
Neil Oliver Podcast - September 25, 2023 23:01 - 25 minutesThe best idea for a country there has ever been – period! This week Neil travels to America to visit James Madison the man credited with writing the opening to the Constitution of the United States a profound document whose base note is ‘the power of the people’, a note that resonates with us st...
Witchcraft & The Ultimate Cancelling!
Neil Oliver Podcast - September 18, 2023 23:01 - 21 minutesA beautiful woman is led in chains to a town square packed with onlookers: standing before the crowd an executioner swings his sword and cuts off her head! This week we travel with Neil to Switzerland as the last person in Europe to be tried and convicted of witchcraft is executed. To help supp...
The Largest Empire In Human History
Neil Oliver Podcast - September 11, 2023 23:01 - 26 minutesReligious zealotry, factional fighting and a new kid on the block! This week we travel with Neil to the Indian city of Murshidabad as Lieutenant Colonel Robert Clive lines up his troops against the forces of the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj ud-Daulah, at the Battle of Plassey – a battle that changed t...
Changing the world forever! - the Industrial Revolution
Neil Oliver Podcast - September 04, 2023 23:01 - 22 minutesInvention, innovation, and entrepreneurial dynamism are at the heart of the Industrial Revolution. This week we travel with Neil to Devon in England. It’s 1712 and the brilliant engineer Tomas Newcomen is harnessing the power of steam and helping to kick start the Industrial Revolution. To help...
Greed, power and the plague of war!
Neil Oliver Podcast - August 28, 2023 23:01 - 27 minutesA battle many regard as one of the most significant in history! This week we travel with Neil to Blenheim in Germany as the cauldron of bitter royal rivalries vying for ultimate control of Europe boils over into the Spanish War of Succession. To help support this podcast series & get access to ...
Glimpsing ‘The Meaning Of Life’!
Neil Oliver Podcast - August 21, 2023 23:01 - 27 minutesA genius who changed the way we understand the Universe. In this episode we travel with Neil to Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire, England to meet Isaac Newton - the man, the mind and the greatest work of science ever written. To help support this podcast series & get access to extra, exclusive...
A Half-plucked Chicken & The Scientific Method!
Neil Oliver Podcast - August 14, 2023 23:01 - 22 minutesGhoulish apparitions haunting a city square, and an approach to science that is still vital today. This week Neil takes us to meet Francis Bacon at the picturesque Pond Square, in Highgate, London. To help support the making of Neil’s podcasts & get access to extra, exclusive videos every we...
The Best-Selling Book in the World!
Neil Oliver Podcast - August 07, 2023 23:30 - 26 minutesIn this episode we travel to Stationers Hall in the City of London to hear a version of this book, that has taken over seven years to research and write, being read. It’s undergoing an exhaustive year-long check as it’s team of authors check the cadences and rhythms of its language determined to...
John Smith, Pocahontas, Jamestown & North America
Neil Oliver Podcast - July 31, 2023 23:01 - 21 minutesIn this episode Neil takes us to a place that starts out as a malarial hellhole but will come to play a pivotal role in the development of North America. To help support the making of Neil’s podcasts & get access to extra, exclusive videos every week sign up to 'Neil Oliver' on Patreon.com htt...
Discovering Our Place In The Universe!
Neil Oliver Podcast - July 24, 2023 23:01 - 30 minutesIn this episode Neil takes us across Europe to meet the man with the gold nose – one half of the inspired, but bad-tempered intellectual marriage that put us in our rightful place in the universe! To help support the making of Neil’s podcasts & get access to extra, exclusive videos every week s...
Europe Comes To India!
Neil Oliver Podcast - July 17, 2023 23:01 - 26 minutesIn this episode Queen Elizabeth I of England puts in place an opening power play which in good time will transform the people of England, the Indian subcontinent and the world! To help support the making of Neil’s podcasts & get access to extra, exclusive videos every week sign up to 'Neil Oliv...
Let Tyrants Fear!
Neil Oliver Podcast - July 10, 2023 23:01 - 30 minutesIn this episode Neil stands beside one of the world’s great leaders as she delivers a speech that cements her reputation and makes her an icon! To help support the making of Neil’s podcasts & get access to extra, exclusive videos every week sign up to 'Neil Oliver' on Patreon.com https://www.p...
Fighting For Freedom!
Neil Oliver Podcast - July 03, 2023 23:01 - 23 minutesIn this episode we travel with Neil to Valladolid in Spain to hear an impassioned debate about one of the great questions of the age; a debate that still has ramifications for us all today. To help support the making of Neil’s podcasts & get access to extra, exclusive videos every week sign up ...
The Russian mindset, territorial expansion & Ivan the Terrible!
Neil Oliver Podcast - June 26, 2023 23:01 - 25 minutesIn this episode Neil travels to Russia to meet Ivan the Terrible. To help support the making of Neil’s podcasts & get access to extra, exclusive videos every week sign up to 'Neil Oliver' on Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver Check out Neil’s YouTube Channel https://www.youtub...
Hell On Earth
Neil Oliver Podcast - June 19, 2023 23:01 - 26 minutesIn this episode we travel with Neil to Bolivia in 1545 as Diego Gualpa discovers an entire mountain made of silver – untold wealth for a few but a hell on earth for thousands of others! To help support the making of Neil’s podcasts & get access to extra, exclusive videos every week sign up to '...
Riches Beyond The Dreams of Avarice!
Neil Oliver Podcast - June 12, 2023 23:01 - 26 minutesIn this episode Neil travels to South America as gold and silver flows out on the way to Spain, but amidst these astonishing riches a humble ingredient comes to light which will have a profound influence on shaping the world. To help support the making of Neil’s podcasts & get access to extra, ...
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