{"podcast":{"title":"Western Civ","slug":"western-civ-780766","podcast_index_feed_id":780766,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5553835/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.westerncivpodcast.com","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a45449e0f8427d59666fc5dfcf007a95.jpg","author":"Adam Walsh","episode_count":594,"summary":"A fast-moving history of the western world from the ancient world to the present day. Examine how the emergence of the western world as a global dominant power was not something that should ever have been taken for granted. This podcast traces the development of western civilization starting in the ancient Near East, through Greece and Rome, past the collapse of the Western Roman Empire into the Dark Ages, and then follows European and, ultimately, American history as the western world moved into a dominant world position.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-18T00:18:32.647147+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/western-civ-780766"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 543: The Roots of Revolution","slug":"episode-543-the-roots-of-revolution","published_at":"2026-07-03T14:00:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/western-civ-780766/episode-543-the-roots-of-revolution","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/western-civ-780766","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-543-the-roots-of-revolution--71977177","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71977177/e543.mp3","summary":"The Russian Revolution did not come out of nowhere. It was not merely the result of World War One. Its legacy is long. Today, we go all the way back to the abolition of serfdom and hit the main events that lead to that critical month: March 1917. Western Civ Podcast 2.0","meta_description":"The Russian Revolution did not come out of nowhere. It was not merely the result of World War One. Its legacy is long. Today, we go all the way back to th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2121,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/western-civ-780766/episodes/episode-543-the-roots-of-revolution/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/western-civ-780766/episode-543-the-roots-of-revolution.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}