495. Evita: The Rise of General Perón (Part 2)

The Rest Is History

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🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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An admirer of Hitler and Mussolini, Colonel Perón rose through the ranks during the 1943 military coup in Argentina. Following a disastrous earthquake in 1944, Perón crossed paths with Eva at a fundraising event. Now a successful radio actress, Eva was 20 years his junior but became completely infatuated with him and swiftly removed her romantic rivals. And despite the relationship being unpopular amongst his army comrades, the two grew closer. Meanwhile Peron gathered support amongst trade unions through his rousing, dramatic speeches, and began his journey toward ultimate political power… Listen as Dominic and Tom discuss how Eva became Perón’s mistress and gradually rose to be seen by his side in the public imagination. _______ *The Rest Is History LIVE in the U.S.A.* If you live in the States, we've got some great news: Tom and Dominic will be performing throughout America in November, with shows in San Francisco, L.A., Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Boston and New York. *The Rest Is History LIVE at the Royal Albert Hall* Tom and Dominic, accompanied by a live orchestra, take a deep dive into the lives and times of two of history’s greatest composers: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven. Tickets on sale now at TheRestIsHistory.com _______ Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Producer: Theo Young-Smith Assistant Producer: Tabby Syrett Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:16.0	. . . . . . . . Here in the confusion of the streets where a new sense of purpose is coming to be born,
0:31.8	here among the anonymous mass of working suffering
0:35.4	thinking silent people here in the midst of exhaustion and hope justice and
0:40.8	mockery here in this shapeless mass, the driving force of a capital city, nerve
0:47.2	center and engine of a great American country.
0:51.4	Here she is the woman. So that was the introduction to a radio
1:00.5	program called, brilliantly, the soldier's revolution
1:03.3	will be the revolution of the Argentine people.
1:05.7	Very Radio 4 title there.
1:07.4	Great title.
1:08.3	I'd tune in.
1:11.3	And that was broadcast on Argentine radio obviously on the 14th of August
1:16.4	1944 and the program was kind of dramatizing instances of poverty out in the reaches of Argentina.
1:25.0	So it will be listing TB statistics and illiteracy and undernourishment.
1:30.0	And the woman in this was played by Ava Duarte who is the subject of our ongoing
1:38.2	series better known as a Vita and in due course to become Ava Perron.
1:43.2	And in the course of this radio program that is broadcast,
1:46.8	she speaks at the very end of the program.
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