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Episode 40: Reflections

Jan 27th, 2020 26m 33s

If The Great Crime has been for anything at all, it is for comprehension, for greater understanding, and to honour the dead who cannot speak.

Episode 39: One Hundred Winters

Jan 20th, 2020 24m

The centenary of the Armenian Genocide was a momentous anniversary. A month of memory, pain, quiet vows of remembrance – and controversy.

Episode 38: A History of Histories

Nov 11th, 2019 26m 26s

Within forty years, the Armenian Genocide went from being a fringe, controversial topic, to a deep and broad school of historical inquiry.

Episode 37: An Oracle

Oct 21st, 2019 18m 46s

“In the end, it is not that Turkish society knows the truth but still denies it, it is defending what it knows to be the truth.”

Episode 36: The Last Border

Oct 14th, 2019 27m 24s

To this day, the border between Turkey and Armenia remains closed – a legacy of Soviet Union, the war over Karabakh, and the Genocide.

Episode 35: Denial

Sep 15th, 2019 25m 26s

Denial of the Armenian Genocide is about the guarding the Turkish state, and protecting the myths Turks tell themselves about the past.

Episode 34: Recognition and Revenge

Sep 8th, 2019 23m 57s

In 1965, fifty years of pain and silence exploded into a movement – a push to see the Armenian Genocide recognised by the world.

Episode 33: The Principles of Justice, Part II

Jun 11th, 2019 34m 24s

In the bloody wake of the Armenian Genocide, at the horrifying height of the Holocaust, Raphael Lemkin introduced a new word and a new concept to the world: genocide.

Episode 32: Nemesis

Jun 5th, 2019 35m 59s

In 1921, after months of careful planning, Soghomon Tehlirian assassinated Talât Paşa, architect of the Armenian Genocide. This is the story of that vengeful mission: Operation Nemesis.

Episode 31: Year Zero

May 28th, 2019 34m 3s

Turkey was governed by a brutal dictatorship for a generation - an authoritarian regime that built a nation from scratch, but destroyed all traces of the past.

Episode 30: Beginning and End

May 21st, 2019 1h 8m

Today, the Ottoman Empire falls. In the closing months of 1922, it was brought to its knees, not by foreign powers as had long been expected, but from within.

Episode 29: Homeland, Part II

Apr 30th, 2019 26m 35s

Under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal, a new Nationalist movement rises from the ashes of the CUP – a challenge to the occupation, and the thousands of genocide survivors trying to return home.

Episode 28: A Golden Chain of Mercy

Apr 24th, 2019 24m 50s

In the wake of the catastrophe, an astonishing global humanitarian movement was created to bring relief to a starving population. This is the story of Near East Relief, and their attempt to bring the Armenian people back from the dead.

Episode 27: The Principles of Justice

Apr 16th, 2019 38m 43s

The extraordinary military tribunals of 1919 brought executioner and victim face to face once again. Could justice be done for the Armenians?

Episode 26: The Twelfth Point

Apr 8th, 2019 26m 22s

As the Allies began drawing up plans to partition the Ottoman Empire, furious debates raged in parliament about what had happened to the Armenians.

Episode 25: I Shall Bear Witness

Apr 1st, 2019 24m 29s

When confronted with the horrors of the Armenian Genocide, some people refused to stand by. They chose to disobey their governments and commanders. They chose to rescue Armenians from destruction, and bore witness to their plight.

Episode 24: The Question of German Complicity

Mar 23rd, 2019 23m 55s

What did the Germans know about what their Ottoman allies were doing during the First World War? Did diplomats cover up the killing of Armenians? Were soldiers implicated in mass murder? This episode explores the question of German complicity.

Episode 23: These Black Days

Mar 20th, 2019 25m 20s

It was supposed to be the war to end all wars. But as Allied troops poured into the Ottoman Empire in November 1918, the CUP were already making plans to defend the state from partition.

Episode 22: An Untimely Birth

Mar 10th, 2019 25m 28s

In May 1918, under threat of annihilation, the first Republic of Armenia in the history of the world was declared. But what a paltry declaration it was: the “untimely birth of a sick child.”

Episode 21: The Sword

Mar 4th, 2019 33m 37s

In the turbulent wake of the Russian Revolution, the Ottomans push eastward into the ancestral lands of the Assyrians. What happened around the city of Urmia in 1918 forms a central part of what they call Seyfo - The Sword.

Episode 20: Plunder

Jan 6th, 2019 26m 32s

“Leave all your belongings: your furniture, your beddings, your artefacts. Close your shops and businesses with everything inside…Make list of everything you own, including livestock, and give it to the specified official…You have ten days to c

Episode 19: The Turkish Mortar

Dec 20th, 2018 26m 25s

The process of assimilation was a like a machine. Armenian bodies were fed into the machine, and out the other side fall new people, scrubbed clean of their old identity, forced to take on a new skin, a new tongue, a new life that was not their

Episode 18: Armenian Auschwitz

Dec 14th, 2018 24m 3s

Der Zor is the nadir of Armenian existence. A black void into which people vanished. More than the word ‘deportation’, more than the figure of Talât Paşa, Der Zor is the single name that can sum up the Armenian Genocide.

Episode 17: The Killing Fields

Dec 9th, 2018 24m 35s

Throughout 1915, scenes of apocalypse and degradation were inescapable. The Ottoman Empire became an open-air morgue. To those who witnessed the cruelty, it felt as if “the world were coming to an end.”