Patrick Geoghegan
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1,107 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Aug
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We've got more debate and discussion next week, so hope you can join us then.
We've been talking history.
Good night.
Good evening and welcome.
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We're Talking History on News Talk 106 to 108 with me, Patrick Gagan.
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In tonight's show, we're looking back on our programme on Mussolini and Fascist Italy.
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Looking first at Mussolini in myth and memory, and then exploring the regime through the eyes of Mussolini's daughter, once described as the most dangerous woman in Europe.
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Our panel of experts, Professor Paul Corner, Emeritus Professor of European.
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History at the University of Siena and former director of the Centre for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes there.
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And his books include The Fascist Party and Popular Opinion in Mussolini's Italy and Popular Opinion in Totalitarian Regimes.
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We were also talking to Caroline Moorhead, whose recent books include a quartet focused on resistance to dictatorship, particularly in Italy and France, and were shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Orwell Prize.
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and the Costa Biography Award.
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Mussolini has rarely been taken seriously as a totalitarian dictator.
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Hitler and Stalin have always cast too long a shadow.
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Present day popular memory of Mussolini is increasingly indulgent.
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In Italy and elsewhere he is remembered as a strong decisive leader, and all of this is explored in a brilliant book Mussolini in Myth and Memory, the first totalitarian dictator.
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It's published in Hardback by
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By Oxford University Press.
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The author is Paul Corner and Paul, you're very welcome to the show tonight.
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It's a fascinating study and I think what's really interesting is the way you explore that myth and that memory because this isn't your standard biography, Benito Mussolini born eighteen eighty three.
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