Joint of English Beef - Propaganda, Winning Friends and Playing with the Enemy, #11 of 100 Bloody Objects

22 Jun 2021 64 mins

Non Sine Sole Iris

William Hogarth's painting 'O the Roast Beef of Old England'
Holbein and the Tudors
Queen Elizabeth I
Cult of Personality
English Civil war
Napoleonic Wars
World War I
World War II
Nazi & the Third Reich
Soviet Propaganda
Allied Propaganda
The Modern Day

In both peace and war, propaganda plays its part. It is the mood music, the manipulation of information, the nudging of a population in a certain direction. Whether Hogarth’s famous depiction of an English side of beef or Josef Goebbels’ Nazi disinformation, propaganda has the power to move and persuade. As the Soviets proved, its influence extends beyond wartime and can control and direct citizens during peace time as well. From heroic statues to demonic posters, from the broadcasts of Lord Haw Haw to the uplifting speeches of Winston Churchill, everyone has used propaganda to spread their message and point of view. Often it is only when a leader kills himself in a Berlin bunker that the full scale of the lie behind the propaganda is revealed.

This podcast is about both the power and fragility of propaganda and how its use has served to both sway and destroy millions.

So it Goes

Tom Assheton & James Jackson

Ref.

Lord Haw Haw (Joyce) audio extract 1941

Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler