Marc Fennell
speaker
2,016 appearances
19 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
Marc Fennell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They do, yeah.
That's bizarre.
Yes.
Okay, so the real person was beaten up, but the idea of him being Schmidt is made up, so he then goes and retrofits a version of the story to make sense of the fact that he got beaten up.
This is insane.
In the end, what happens to Czechoslovakia when Howell takes over?
How do things change after that moment?
There's a phrase that we've used quite a lot in this conversation, and it's the name of the event, the Velvet Revolution.
Why was it called Velvet?
It was peaceful.
At the beginning, I promised you a lie.
But I lied.
There's like 37 different lies in this rollercoaster moment in history.
God, I love Cold War stories.
But I think this particular chapter also reveals something that I think is really important in history, which is that the most serious moments in change can sometimes emerge from utter farce.
The Golden Maze is the name of Richard's book about Prague and Conversations is his ABC podcast.
Zoe Ferguson is the very clever egg who produced this madness and Angie Grant is the equally clever egg who engineered the sound to make it all sound so good.
We make the show on Gadigal land in Sydney, Australia.
My name has been and will likely continue to be Mark Fennell, but God, after all the lies I've told you, I wouldn't trust me either.
She stands tall with her head tilted towards you.
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