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The History Podcast Half-Life Episodes

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  1. 8. A Fracture

    8/9 Joe follows the opening of a public memorial and engages with a private reckoning.

  2. 7. The City Forgets

    7/9 Joe traces a family history left out of his great-grandfather’s memoir.

  3. 6. Tranquility

    6/9 Joe's great-grandfather settles in the United States where his mental health deteriorates.

  4. 5. The Road Through the Mountains

    5/9 Joe’s great-grandfather's letters, lead him to the silenced history of a massacre.

  5. 4. Young Republic

    4/9 Joe travels to Turkey where his great-grandfather was employed, it seems, making gas masks

  6. 3. Lost

    4/9 Joe's research leads him to the remains of an old chemical weapons factory.

  7. 2. The Quiet Town by the River

    3/9 Dangers lurk beneath the soil, in the town where Joe's great-grandfather worked.

  8. 1. Daughter of Radium

    2/9 Hidden on page 1692 of his great-grandfather's memoir, Joe Dunthorne finds a confession.

  9. Trailer

    1/9 Hidden in an unpublished family memoir, the writer Joe Dunthorne discovers a confession.