History · Mike Duncan
by Mike Duncan
Season 12 premiered October 20, 2024 – a nonfictional account of The Martian Revolution of 2247. Mike Duncan is taking everything he's learned from 12 seasons of historical revolutions - the repeating arcs, characters, ideas, events, and patterns which all revolutions seem to follow - and created a fictional history of the Martian Revolution of 2247. The series is written from the point of view of a historian working hundreds of years after the Martian Revolution and will be presented in the style and format of previous seasons of Revolutions. It will look, sound, and feel like a Mike Duncan history podcast…but will instead be a fictional narrative of a gripping science-fiction epic. Revolutions is a podcast that covers the great political revolutions that have defined the modern world. Each season is a long-form narrative covering a different defining revolutionary epoch across three hundred years of history. It explores in great detail the people, ideas, and events that challenged and toppled outdated regimes and replaced them with new governments. After more than 350 episodes over ten seasons of narrative nonfiction, the 12th season is a fictional account of the Martian Revolution of 2247. *BREAKING NEWS* In the fall of 2025, the Revolutions podcast will return to its roots by diving into the great revolutions of the 20th century. The new run of episodes begins with the story of Irish Independence, a dramatic upheaval in the wake of WWI that saw Ireland free itself from centuries of English rule. Full of inspiring personalities, tragic events, and thrilling triumphs, Irish Independence is one of the most gripping events in revolutionary history. Future seasons will plunge ahead through the turbulent 20th century, and include the Spanish Civil War, the Cuban Revolution, and the Algerian War of Independence.
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Revolutions was my introduction to Mike Duncan and after binging my way up to the later seasons I eagerly await each new episode. I will confess the Bolivarian Revolutions were a slog, but boy was it worth it to come out the other side into the Mexican Revolution. (I see why it was what inspired the project!). Working through chronologically, patterns emerge and your fictional Martian revolution is the perfect, playful way to discuss those patterns without leaving behind your delightful narrative style. I understood your decision to call it quits at 10, but am absolutely thrilled that you reconsidered and that we will have the opportunity to join you for an exploration of more recent revolutionary history.
There’s a reason why Mike’s History of Rome and Revolutions podcasts are correctly recognized as groundbreaking in the now-enormous field of history podcasting. I will be consuming anything and everything that Mike puts out, because frankly he don’t miss. Constantly recognizing new things Mr. Duncan has convinced me of, like the Great Idiot theory of history, in my daily life
Very engaging, great content, and occasionally some wry humor that warrants an apology for being delivered in such a dry fashion that the wild comment is taken as fact. Brilliant!
The world building is spectacular, the common revolutionary threads are all right there. Not many can effectively cross the history/fiction divide but Duncan is batting 1.000
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