BBC Radio 4 Podcast

 

A great introduction to Simón Bolívar is the October 2008 edition of the BBC Radio 4 show In Our Time,  in which host Melvyn Bragg discusses Bolívar with historians John Lynch, Anthony McFarlane and Catherine Davies. 

In Our Time Podcast

Foreign Office Podcast

The British Foreign Office currently have a podcast Podcast entitled 'Britain, Bolívar & the independence of Latin America', in which Richard Smith discusses Simon Bolivar’s links with Britain and the role played by many hundreds of British volunteers who fought alongside him. It is interesting to see the way that the present British Foreign and Commonwealth Office - the heirs to the governments who turned a blind-eye to the departure of thousands of adventurers from British ports, despite public proclamations of official neutrality in the conflict - remember the events of two hundred years ago.