
Revolutions
Season 12 premiered October 20, 2024 – a nonfictional account of The Martian Revolution of 2247.
Mike Duncan is taking everything he's learned from 12 seasons of historical revolutions - the repeating arcs, characters, ideas, events, and patterns which all revolutions seem to follow - and created a fictional history of the Martian Revolution of 2247. The series is written from the point of view of a historian working hundreds of years after the Martian Revolution and will be presented in the style and format of previous seasons of Revolutions. It will look, sound, and feel like a Mike Duncan history podcast…but will instead be a fictional narrative of a gripping science-fiction epic.
Revolutions is a podcast that covers the great political revolutions that have defined the modern world. Each season is a long-form narrative covering a different defining revolutionary epoch across three hundred years of history. It explores in great detail the people, ideas, and events that challenged and toppled outdated regimes and replaced them with new governments. After more than 350 episodes over ten seasons of narrative nonfiction, the 12th season is a fictional account of the Martian Revolution of 2247.
*BREAKING NEWS*
In the fall of 2025, the Revolutions podcast will return to its roots by diving into the great revolutions of the 20th century. The new run of episodes begins with the story of Irish Independence, a dramatic upheaval in the wake of WWI that saw Ireland free itself from centuries of English rule. Full of inspiring personalities, tragic events, and thrilling triumphs, Irish Independence is one of the most gripping events in revolutionary history. Future seasons will plunge ahead through the turbulent 20th century, and include the Spanish Civil War, the Cuban Revolution, and the Algerian War of Independence.
Latest episodes

May 10, 2021 • 29min
10.52- What You Already Know About The Origins of WWI
You already know a lot actually! sponsor: harrys.com/revolutions

Apr 19, 2021 • 25min
Supplemental: The Streets of Paris
Au revoir Paris.

Apr 12, 2021 • 17min
10.51- Our Friend
A rapist protected by powerful friends? Who has ever heard of such a thing? Sponsor: audible.com/revolutions

Apr 5, 2021 • 15min
10.50- The Holy Man
Why be an illiterate Siberian peasant when you can be a sought after curiosity in St. Petersburg. sponsor: awaytravel.com/revolutions

Mar 29, 2021 • 15min
10.49- The Tsarevich
Wherein the gods hate me, but they hated Alexei Romanov even more... Sponsor: HelloFresh/Revolutions12

Mar 22, 2021 • 29min
10.48- The Death of Reform
Stolypin's reforms died. Then Stolypin died.

Mar 15, 2021 • 34min
10.47- The Duma of Lords and Lackeys
After re-writing election laws to ensure a Duma he could work with, Prime Minister Stolypin finally had a Duma he could work with. Sponsor: harrys.com/revolution.

Mar 8, 2021 • 32min
10.46- The Permanent Revolution
Why have two revolutions when you can have one big long revolution? sponsor: audible.com/revolutions

Feb 28, 2021 • 35min
10.45- The Disunity Congresses
Unity Congress more like DISunity Congress, amirite? sponsor: audible.com/revolutions.

Feb 21, 2021 • 37min
10.44- Bolshevik Bank Heist
Who expropriates the expropriators? sponsor: harrys.com/revolutions