History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. What Rhymes With Now? is a podcast, produced by Louis Walsh, that puts today's biggest challenges in historical perspective. Each episode, host Patrick Cook interviews a leading historian about a period that illuminates something urgent about the present. If you're looking for the bigger picture, this is your show.
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Signup to Generate a PitchHistory doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. What Rhymes With Now? is a podcast, produced by Louis Walsh, that puts today's biggest challenges in historical perspective. Each episode, host Patrick Cook interviews a leading historian about a period that illuminates something urgent about the present. If you're looking for the bigger picture, this is your show.
Recent episodes include "How to fix politics and the climate with George Monbiot" (28 October 2026, 57 minutes), "The Berlin showdown that ignited the Cold War with Giles Milton" (30 September 2026, 57 minutes), and "Turning points in American foreign policy with Dr Alex Goodall" (16 September 2026, 83 minutes).
What Rhymes With Now? publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 49 minutes across 16 episodes.
Booking probability for What Rhymes With Now? is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. What Rhymes With Now? requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. What Rhymes With Now?'s contact route on record: verified email.
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What Rhymes With Now? is a history podcast with 16 episodes published.
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What Rhymes With Now?
How did we end up in a climate crisis? How did we end up living in an ecological desert? How do we get out of this mess? George Monbiot is a British author and environmental and political activist. Patrick Cook is the...
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The dramatic events in Berlin following the Second World War revealed the tensions between the Allies and the Soviets, and kickstarted decades of Cold War. Featuring timeless lessons about geopolitics and...
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Alex Goodall is a Senior Lecturer in International History with a particular focus on the United States and the world. His main research interests focus on the history of political repression in the twentieth-century...
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What can the rise of the radio teach us about the changing media landscape today how it will affect our lives? Beaty Rubens was a BBC Radio producer for thirty-five years and is now a freelance producer, presenter, and...
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Patrick is joined by Frederick Atkinson to discuss the history and development of the English language, some of the great writers in English history and how social media and AI is changing the way we engage with...
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Fake news. Money and politics. Demagogues who tell the crowd exactly what it wants to hear. And the oldest question of all — what does a good life actually look like? Plato was turning these questions over 2,400 years...
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Why does it feel like the UK (and the West in general) can't build anything anymore? Why is nuclear so hotly debated by environmentalists and policy makers? What can we do to get clean, cheap energy and infrastructure...
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Ayşe Zarakol is Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge and a Politics Fellow at Emmanuel College. She is the author of Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders , which...
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An additional clip from Patrick's discussion with Andy Beckett. 16/04/2026
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Why is Great Britain divided into England, Scotland and Wales? The answer lies nearly two thousand years ago, in the collapse of Roman rule and the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons — a story of migration, cultural...
What Rhymes With Now?
History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. What Rhymes With Now? is a podcast, produced by Louis Walsh, that puts today's biggest challenges in historical perspective. Each episode, host Patrick Cook interviews a...
You may have heard that inequality today has reached levels not seen since the French Revolution. But what actually happened after 1789 — and what does it teach us about the fragility of political institutions, and...
Why didn't America turn to fascism during the worst economic crisis in modern history? If AI causes mass unemployment in the coming years, what can the 1930s teach us about replacing the social role of work? Patrick...
We are in an era of stagflation. What happened last time? And why do the 1970s cast such a long shadow over British politics? Patrick speaks with Andy Beckett, journalist and author of When the Lights Went Out: Britain...
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