This is the homepage of our Working Class History podcasts: podcasts about all of those who have fought for a better world. We have three main podcasts, Working Class History, Working Class Literature, and On This Day in Working Class History.
Working Class History
Working Class History is our flagship longform podcast. Mostly consisting of audio documentary episodes, hearing from ordinary people who have helped make history, as well as historians and experts.
To get exclusive early access to all of our episodes without ads, as well as special bonus episodes and other benefits, you can support us and listen on Patreon here. We also have two exclusive series of discussion episodes: Radical Reads, where we speak with authors, activists and others, about books we think are interesting, and Fireside Chats, with discussions with workers, organisers and others about campaigns, workplace disputes, and current affairs. These are available exclusively for our supporters on Patreon who make all of our work possible.
You can listen to the Working Class History podcast directly on our website and browse all our episodes in the podcast tag of our website here.
We are also on the following podcast outlets, and many others, so please subscribe today:
- Apple Podcasts | RSS | Spotify | Amazon Music | Castbox | Google Podcasts | Overcast | Pocket Casts | Podbean | Radio Public | TuneIn
If you’re new to our podcast and don’t know where to start, here are some of our best episodes which we recommend checking out first, depending on which subject interests you most:
- E21-24: WCH Crime: The Columbia Eagle mutiny – about the hijacking of a ship full of napalm by two anti-war US sailors during the Vietnam war.
- E20: The Exotic Dancers Union – about strippers who successfully unionised their workplace, then took it over.
- E77-80: Italian resistance – A four-part podcast series on the Italian resistance to fascism, both during World War II and immediately after, in conversation with anti-fascist partisans themselves.
- E25-26: The Stonewall riots and Pride at 50 – about the Stonewall LGBT+ rebellion in New York City in 1969 and the birth of Pride and the gay liberation movement.
- E48-49: Green bans – about construction workers in Australia in the 1970s refusing to undertake environmentally or socially destructive development.
- E41-42: The Portuguese revolution – about the Carnation revolution of 1974-5 which overthrew the right-wing Estado Novo dictatorship and the Portuguese empire.
- E27-29: Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners – about the young LGBT+ people who transformed the workers’ movement supporting the UK strike of coalminers in 1984-5.
We are also on most other podcast apps, just search “Working Class History”. If we are not on your favourite app, send us an email (address below) to let us know so we can try to sort it.
Please give us a 5 star review on Apple podcasts, Spotify or your preferred podcast app, Share our episodes on social media, and do you have a story for us? If you would like to be interviewed, or have any feedback or questions please just drop us a line on info@workingclasshistory.com
Working Class Literature
Working Class Literature is an audio documentary podcast taking a radical look at fiction and culture.
Episodes are available here on our website. You can listen to episodes ad-free, with early access, and special bonus episodes, on our Patreon.
Listen and subscribe in the following ways. You can also find it on most other podcast apps: Apple Podcasts | RSS | Spotify | Amazon Music | Anchor | Castbox | Google Podcasts | Overcast | Pocket Casts | Podbean
For a sample, here are a couple of our best episodes to check out:
- WCL E3-4: Michael Rosen’s socialist fairy tales – Double podcast with acclaimed author, poet, professor and meme, Michael Rosen, about his anthology, Workers’ Tales: Socialist Fairy Tales, Fables, and Allegories from Great Britain.
- WCL 7-9: Chinese migrant worker poetry – Three-part podcast series on the migrant worker poetry scene in China, the precarious social conditions in which these poets live and, of course, the poetry they produce.
WCL also has a Twitter account.
On This Day in Working Class History
On This Day in Working Class History is daily mini-podcast, serving as a brief reminder each morning of our collective struggles for a better world which have taken place on this date in history.
Each episode is just a couple of minutes long, highlighting one anniversary from our archive each day. It’s designed to fit into your morning schedule, alongside news headlines, and to be shared on social media with your friends, colleagues and families.
Listen and subscribe in the following ways. You can also find it on most other podcast apps, and you can add it to your smart speaker, like Alexa, as part of your daily briefing: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Podbean | PodcastAddict | RSS
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