
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 It explores in great detail the people, ideas, and events that challenged and toppled outdated regimes and replaced them with new governments.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

22 snips
Jun 10, 2022 • 40min
10.100- History Never Ends
After one hundred episodes, you might agree!

18 snips
Jun 1, 2022 • 33min
10.99- The Testament
It's a faaaaaaaaaaaaaaake.

12 snips
May 24, 2022 • 32min
10.98- The Union of Soviet Socialst Republics
Forward in the USSR

7 snips
May 17, 2022 • 34min
10.97- The Trial of the SRs
There's no business like show business.

24 snips
May 11, 2022 • 29min
10.96- Starving To Death
You know we're covering an upbeat period of history when the title of the episode is "Starving To Death"

5 snips
Apr 25, 2022 • 33min
10.95- Russian Empire Soviet Empire
Tbh, it's bit like one of those "circle five differences in these two pictures that otherwise seem identical" games.

23 snips
Apr 18, 2022 • 33min
10.94- The New Policies
When the old policies aren't working...try new policies!

Apr 11, 2022 • 45min
10.93- The Kronstadt Rebellion
Poetically, or ominously, coinciding with the 50th Anniversary of the Paris Commune...

5 snips
Apr 4, 2022 • 29min
10.92- Long Live the Bolsheviks Death to the Communists
[Insert Spider-Man meme here]

11 snips
Mar 28, 2022 • 31min
10.91- The Battle of Warsaw
So close yet so far away.