• Rachel Parris on Protest and Propaganda

  • Jan 24 2025
  • Length: 36 mins
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Rachel Parris on Protest and Propaganda

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  • 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.

    From shock tactics to satire, art curator Sarah Holdaway guides Rachel on a personalised tour of the Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Gallery - accompanied by Dr Mark Sealy, Director of Autograph London and Professor of Photography at University of the Arts London.

    Content Warning: description of a dead child, with the image visible on certain podcast apps.

    Objects discussed:

    H.R.Hopps, Destroy This Mad Brute – Enlist 1917

    Don't Falter - Go and Meet the Hun Menace (Australia), 1917

    Madrid. The 'Military' Practice of the Rebels. If you tolerate this your children will be next. (c. 1937)

    F H K Henrion, Stop Nuclear Suicide, 1963

    Charles A Ridley, Germany Calling/Lambeth Walk, 1941

    Kennardphillipps (Peter Kennard and Cat Picton-Phillipps), Photo Op (2007)


    Narrator:  James Taylor. Producer: Matt Hill at Rethink Audio, with support from Eleanor Head, Daniel BenChorin, and the IWM Institute team at Imperial War Museums
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