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History Extra podcast

Reagan's plan to 'make America great again'

History Extra podcast

Immediate Media

History

4.34.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The phrase 'Make America Great Again' is indelibly associated with President Trump – yet a very similar version of the slogan – 'Let's Make America Great Again' – was in fact used by his predecessor Ronald Reagan. What can this parallel tell us about the United States of the 1980s? And does drawing such comparisons reveal anything about the US today? Speaking to Matt Elton, author and documentarian Phil Tinline offers his take. The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.5

Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.

0:36.5

A bit of a different thing going on this week.

0:38.9

You're eating a sheep's testicle?

0:40.2

I think I'd be fine doing those things. Oh, right. Okay. I think I'd be gagging slightly, but I think the thought... You'd get it down you. I love Alan Carr so much. And as I ask, I mean, I can't stop sweating. He was so wind-swept and everything, but he was just so lovely.

0:55.8

My sister pretended to be me and ruined. Stop sweating. It was like, he was so windswept at everything, but he was just so lovely.

0:55.5

My sister tended to be me and ruined my marriage.

0:59.6

Oh my God.

1:05.4

Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History Magazine.

1:14.6

The phrase, make America great again, is indelibly associated with President Trump.

1:21.1

Yet a very similar version of the slogan, Let's Make America Great Again, was in fact used by his 1980s predecessor,

1:30.1

Ronald Reagan.

1:31.6

What can this parallel tell us about the United States of the 1980s?

1:36.1

And does drawing comparisons between the two reveal anything about the US today?

1:41.7

Author and documentarian Phil Tinline explored these questions in a recent BBC

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