One Last Job
Episode 6
The IRA’s American support group has had a strange afterlife, as Nate Lavey learns in the final episode of the series.
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How to Be a Good Ancestor
The left’s political focus is typically on the here and now. Should we be considering our place in the vast scope of time?
Hollywood and the IRA’s American Connection
Bonus 2
Nate Lavey explores how Irish American support for the IRA has been portrayed on screen, from Columbo to Patriot Games.
Truncheons at Dawn
When a filmmaker and a solicitor investigated the policing of protest, they found secret manuals, imperial legacies and dirty tricks.
Our Day Will Come
Episode 5
After the horror of the hunger strikes, Noraid is invigorated – but the movement is beginning to fracture. Will the future be decided by rifle or ballot box?
Abolishing Prisons Is Only the Start
How can we build a world that has no need of policing? Rivkah Brown finds out with scholar-activist Ruth Wilson Gilmore.
Lawyers, Guns and Money
Episode 4
When a federal investigation forces a Brooklyn arms smuggler into the limelight, his lawyers come up with a defence so crazy it just might work.
The IRA’s Technical Support
Bonus 1
In this bonus episode, we meet two American inventors whose homemade weapons aimed to launch the Irish republican campaign into the skies and below the waves.
Agents of the State
Episode 3
After Bloody Sunday, Irish Northern Aid sees its power, influence and donations increase drastically – but a raised profile attracts new enemies.
The New World and the Old Country
Episode 2
In episode two, Michael Flannery’s journey from Tipperary to New York City uncovers the roots of anti-colonial struggle in Ireland.
The American Front
Episode 1
When six suitcases full of guns are discovered on an Irish dock in 1971, suspicion falls on an Irish American organisation known as Noraid. The first in a six-part series.
Trip 24: Technology
Is technology a fundamental aspect of being human? On this wide-ranging Trip, the gang take on one of their biggest topics yet.
Microdose: Women and Technology With Katrine Marçal
Why did it take 5,000 years to put wheels on a suitcase? Nadia Idle meets feminist historian Katrine Marçal.
A Simple Plan to Save the World
Mass rewilding, worldwide socialist planning and universal veganism? It won’t be easy but it’s our best shot at the good life, say the authors of Half-Earth Socialism.
Trip 23: War
Jeremy Gilbert, Nadia Idle and Keir Milburn bring a weird left perspective on violence and conflict, with music from Digital Mystikz and Stiff Little Fingers.
How We Normalised the Apocalypse
Can humanity turn back from the brink? Croatian philosopher Srećko Horvat on breaking the spell of end-times nihilism.
Trip 22: Democracy
The gang find out what it means to be ruled by the people, with music from Crass and the Scratch Orchestra.
Putin’s Philosopher and the Global Far Right
Who is Aleksandr Dugin? Benjamin Teitelbaum introduces the spiritual leader of traditionalism, an idea that unites illiberal regimes around the world.