A Deep Dive Into The Cultural Cold War (1960) w/ Benjamen Walker
This Day in Esoteric Political History
Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia
4.6 • 982 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
It's May 5th. This day in 1960, a British theater critic named Kenneth Tynan is hauled before a Senate sub-committee to answer questions about what is seen as his anti-American work.
It's a moment that captures the cultural and political swirl of the late 50s, which is the subject of Benjamen Walker's new audio series "Not All Propaganda Is Art," out now as part of the Radiotopia show "Theory of Everything." Check it out!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia. |
| 0:07.0 | My name is Jody Avergan. This day, May 5th, 1960, British critic Kenneth Tynan is called before the Senate Internal |
| 0:18.1 | Security Subcommittee and questioned about his views on Cuba, communism, and other matters. |
| 0:23.2 | Tydon had recently produced a TV program featuring countercultural voices in America, |
| 0:28.3 | and he'd long had Soviet sympathetic politics. |
| 0:31.5 | Suffices to say Tyndon didn't love having to testify in part. |
| 0:35.2 | He wondered why a British citizen was being called before a US |
| 0:37.9 | subcommittee. |
| 0:38.9 | But this was a key moment and an instructive one in the swirl between culture and politics, the Cold War, and propaganda in the late 1950s and early 1960s. |
| 0:50.0 | And that swirl is the subject of a new series from our radiotopia |
| 0:53.0 | pal Benjamin Walker host of Theory of Everything, Master of the Wide Raging |
| 0:57.4 | and Rabbit Hole filled audio documentary. He's got this new series. It's called |
| 1:01.6 | Not All Propaganda is art. It looks at the way in which culture came crashing into the Cold War. |
| 1:07.0 | And a lot of that culture was funded by the CIA, mind you. |
| 1:10.0 | It profiles a number of key figures in that story including Kenneth Tynen. |
| 1:14.2 | So Ben Walker, welcome to the show and congrats on the new series. |
| 1:18.4 | I'm really glad you're here to talk about it. |
| 1:19.8 | Oh, it's so great to be with you all. |
| 1:22.2 | I couldn't imagine more. Fol folks I'd want to talk about this with. |
| 1:25.8 | So thanks for having me on the show. |
| 1:27.6 | And when you say folks you're referring to, as always, Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt and |
| 1:30.9 | Kelly Carter Jackson of Wausley. Hello, there. Hello Jody. Hey there. of podcasting, basically, if that makes sense to people, but you know, sweeping and epic and |
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