Celebrities ask the simple questions about the world's most complex conflicts, from the First World War to the present day. Who was fighting in Vietnam? What was the Malayan Emergency? Why is Korea divided between North and South?
Guided by an IWM curator, each celebrity is taken on a journey through IWM - discovering the objects, people and stories that shape our understanding of the modern world.
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Sanjeev Bhaskar on Dreams and Nightmares (00:30:36)
How do we begin to understand how civilians felt in a time of war? We often look to diaries and poetry - but today we look to the surrealist artists that sought to make sense of the most extreme times...
Edmund Clark on Controlled Environments (00:32:45)
How do modern conflicts change the way artists respond to warfare? In this bonus episode, Edmund Clark discusses his experiences of depicting life for those who are living in controlled environments....
Geoff Norcott on Technology & Innovation (00:33:12)
What did it take to capture 20th Century warfare on film - and how were they used in the war effort? Geoff Norcott joins curator James Taylor for a personalised tour of the artworks on display at the ...
Rachel Parris on Protest and Propaganda (00:35:44)
Is there anything new in modern propaganda? Comedian Rachel Parris discovers how governments and protesters have always pulled on the public's emotional heartstrings across the 20th and 21st centuries...
Carl Miller on The War Dead and Wounded (00:43:15)
What did artists and photographers choose to show us of the horrors of the front line? And how did Governments seek to curb what its citizens could see? Carl Miller (The Kill List) travels from the tr...
Susan Wokoma explores The Home Front (00:33:25)
How did British society react to the sudden increase of women in the workforce during the First World War? Or the thousands of colonial volunteers brought over to fight Nazism? Susan Wokoma (Chewing...
Helen Lewis on Destruction and Reconstruction (00:43:33)
How have artists, filmmakers and photographers shaped our understanding of wars and conflict? Journalist and writer Helen Lewis explores the recently-opened Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleri...
Conflict Of Interest is back (00:01:22)
More conflicts explained in a brand new series focusing on the role of art, film and photography in depicting warfare across the Twentieth Century. This time featuring: Broadcaster Helen Lewis Act...
Ukraine, with Sophie Duker (00:54:40)
Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. But what is the history behind this devastating war, and where did it all begin? In this special episode of Conflict of Inte...
The Falklands Conflict, with Katherine Parkinson (00:53:29)
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Falklands Conflict. But why did the United Kingdom, steered by Margaret Thatcher, send its Navy to defend the Falklands, a tiny group of islands over 8,000 ...
The Vietnam War, with Cerys Matthews (00:56:14)
The Vietnam War is one of the twentieth century's most well-known conflicts. It has become a buzzword for military failure, synonymous with the most horrific aspects of irregular warfare between state...
The Korean War, with Eddie Izzard (00:57:17)
Why is Korea divided between North and South? Who was Kim Jong Un's grandfather Kim Il Sun, and what did he want? Why did the United Nations intervene in Korea? And did the Korean War really almost go...
The Mau Mau Uprising, with Nikita Gill (00:50:54)
The Mau Mau Uprising was another lesser-known conflict that took place during the end of the British Empire between Kenyan insurgents and British forces. We ask questions like, What does Mau Mau actua...
The Malayan Emergency, with Phil Wang (00:46:44)
Few are aware of the secretive conflict that took place in the jungles of Malaysia in the 1940s and 1950s between British colonial forces and communist guerillas. So what tactics were used by both sid...
The Berlin Wall, with Russell Tovey (00:40:34)
The Berlin Wall was one of the most important symbols of the Cold War, signifying the division of Europe into communist East and capitalist West. But why was the Wall built? How did it affect the live...
Conflict of Interest: Series 2 (00:01:57)
In this brand new series of Conflict of Interest, high-profile guests ask the simple questions about the world's most complex conflicts from the Cold War era.
Before The War – Syria, with musician Jake Shuker (00:17:06)
Singer and guitarist Jake Shuker was nine when he first discovered death metal, despite the genre being banned in Syria. From that moment on he was hooked. He formed death metal band Maysaloon as a te...
Before The War - Yemen, with artist Murad Subay (00:12:52)
In this special episode of Conflict of Interest, artist Murad Subay tells his story of Yemen before the war, finding art as a teenager before sparking a street art movement that saw men, women and chi...
Before The War - Afghanistan, with artist Samira Kitman (00:18:46)
In this special episode of Conflict of Interest, we hear what Afghanistan was like for a young girl growing up in Kabul before the Taliban retook power - a girl who dreamed of being a famous artist. C...
9/11, with Suruthi Bala and Hannah Maguire (RedHanded) (01:07:01)
In this bonus episode of Conflict of Interest podcast, marking the twentieth anniversary of the attacks on September 11th, 2001, we examine this monumental moment in history which profoundly impacted ...
Northern Ireland, with James Graham (00:44:23)
So far, Conflict of Interest has examined wars in far-flung parts of the world like Yemen and Afghanistan. But in our final episode, we'll explore one much closer to home. When did 'The Troubles' in N...
Yemen, with Munya Chawawa (00:49:39)
Until recently, Yemen was seen as a remote part of the world that many Westerners knew very little about, perhaps beyond the book-turned-film 'Salmon Fishing in the Yemen' and a Friends episode where ...
Syria, with Carey Mulligan (00:41:00)
The Syrian conflict is one of the most complex and catastrophic wars of recent memory. It has left more than 380,000 people dead and over 10 million people displaced, has destroyed entire cities and d...
Libya, with Inua Ellams (00:38:32)
Who was Muammar Gaddafi? What happened in the Arab Spring? What were the reasons behind Britain, France and America intervening in Libya in 2011? And why is there still fighting going on today? In thi...
Iraq, with Rick Edwards (00:50:30)
The Iraq War is one of the most controversial events in recent history. But who really was Saddam Hussein? What was the rationale behind the invasion? What went so badly wrong after 2003? And what are...
