2.9 Jean Watts
Mon, 22 Apr 2019 14:00:00 AST
Kaarina and Kevin talk about Jean "Jim" Watts, who worked as a journalist, broadcaster, driver, and censor in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.
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2.8 Meet Me on the Barricades
Mon, 1 Apr 2019 17:00:00 AST
Kevin and Kaarina discuss Meet Me on the Barricades, a 1938 novel by Charles Yale Harrison about a big-dreaming oboe player with a passionate but passive interest in the Spanish Civil War.
In a bonus track, Kevin and Kaarina read an excerpt from Meet Me on the Barricades.
2.7 Thomas Danek
Mon, 18 Mar 2019 011:00:00 AST
Kevin and Kaarina discuss the short and tragic life of Canadian volunteer Thomas Danek.
2.6 Military Experience of the Canadian Volunteers
Mon, 4 Mar 2019 09:00:00 AST
Though the International Brigades provided very little military training, many volunteers brought their own experience. Kevin Levangie digs into the military backgrounds of Canadian volunteers, telling which wars they fought on, which sides they ended up on, and how their politics came up against their militarism.
2.5 This Time a Better Podcast
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 09:00:00 AST
Kevin and Kaarina (re)record their conversation about This Time a Better Earth, Ted Allan's 1939 Spanish Civil War novel.
2.4 A Real Live Military Historian
Mon, 21 Jan 2019 09:00:00 AST
In Part 2 of our interview with Tyler Wentzell, we talk about a whole lot of things: his research on Toronto's Standard Theatre, the Foreign Enlistment Act, canada and the Spanish Civil War from the persepctive of a military historian, and anti-fascism.
2.3 Ed Cecil-Smith
Mon, 13 Jan 2019 09:00:00 AST
Part 1 of our interview with Tyler Wentzell, military historian and legal scholar. Wentzell talks about Ed Cecil-Smith, a Canadian volunteer, commanding officer in the International Brigades, and significant member of the Communist Party in Canada. He is also the subject of Wentzell's forthcoming book.
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2.2 The Technology of Camps
Mon, 12 Nov 2018 09:00:00 AST
Kaarina and Kevin talk about the kinds of camps that Canadian Spanish Civil War volunteers might have moved through: Canada's relief camps, International Brigades' disciplinary camps, Fascist Prisoner of War camps, and French refugee camps, and German concentration camps.
2.1 It Ain't Ethiopia
Mon, 21 Oct 2018 09:00:00 AST
Canada and the Spanish Civil War co-director Emily Robins Sharpe talks about Jewish North American and African American participation in the Spanish Civil War, and the war's impact on Jewish North American and African American literature
1.8 Tiny Anderson: "The Police Is Terribly Brutal"
Mon, 16 Jul 2018 09:00:00 AST
Kaarina Mikalson talks with Kevin Levangie about the life of Ivor "Tiny" Anderson, a Danish-Canadian volunteer who wrote fascinating letters home to his family and lived a short but eventful life.
1.9 A Day in the Life of a Mac Pap
Mon, 30 Jul 2018 09:00:00 AST
Kevin Levangie traces the typical (if such a generalization is possible) journey and experience of a Canadian volunteer in the Spanish Civil War. He discusses the Canadian's resistance to discipline, how scarcity of resources affected volunteers, and the battles they engaged in.
1.7 Tomo Cacic: A Difficult Prisoner
Mon, 2 Jul 2018 09:00:00 AST
Kevin Levangie tells us about a Canadian volunteer named Tomo Čačić, and his complicated journey to the Spanish Civil War and beyond. We talk about deportation, forced mobility, anti-communism, and nation-building.
1.6 Anarchism in/and the Spanish Civil War
Mon, 18 Jun 2018 09:00:00 AST
Kaarina chats with Hugh Goldring of Ad Astra Comix about Anarchism leading up to the Spanish Civil War, during the war, and in Canada and North America today. Hugh also shares his thoughts on anti-fascism today.
1.5 Update
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 09:00:00 AST
Just a quick announcement that Listen In is taking a break. We will be back in June with more episodes.
1.4 Protest and Print
Mon, 9 Apr 2018 09:00:00 AST
Andrea Hasenbank joins us to talk about pamphlet culture radical movements throughout the 1930s, and traces a pretty compelling trajectory from Canadian leftist parties and organizations, through the Second World War and the building of the social welfare state and into our present (more dire) times. She reminds us how hard we have to fight for an equitable and democratic society, and how capitalism and austerity operate to undo and erase that work.
1.3 Norman Bethune
Mon, 26 Mar 2018 09:00:00 AST
Kevin Levangie joins host Kaarina Mikalson to talk about Doctor Norman Bethune, a Canadian doctor who ran a blood transfusion service in Spain. Kevin tells us about Bethune's background, his radical politics, his art, and his work in Spain and China.
1.2 The Mac Paps
Mon, 12 Mar 2018 09:00:00 AST
Kevin Levangie joins Kaarina Mikalson to discuss the Canadians who fought in the Spanish Civil War and the organizations they fought with: the International Brigades and the Mackenzie Papineau Battalion.
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1.1 Introduction
Mon, 5 Mar 2018 09:00:00 AST
In this episode, Kaarina Mikalson introduces the podcast, the project behind it, and provides a brief historical overview of the Spanish Civil War. Stay tuned for the next episode, about the International Brigades and the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion.
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