Revolutions (podcast)  Revolutions is a podcast created by Mike Duncan which first aired on 15 September 2013. Each season is dedicated to one revolution or revolutionary wave. The podcast followed a narrative style similar to his podcast "The History of Rome", but the shorter time periods for each season allow greater detail for individual events. Each season follows a mostly chronological approach with one or two episodes at the beginning dedicated to the pre-history of the revolution and its causes, sometimes highlighting when and how the revolution could have been avoided. Initially, Duncan planned to limit his podcast to 12-15 episodes per revolution, but he ran over that self-imposed limit with the English Civil War and the American Revolution and decided to give up on it for the French Revolution, which ultimately ended up being 54 episodes not counting supplementals. Supplementals are special episodes not counted in the normal number of episodes and of varying length compared to roughly half-hour normal episodes – some of them focus in depth on a particular topic or person, while others are verbatim reproductions of historical texts such as the United States Declaration of Independence or the French Declaration of the Rights of the Man and of the Citizen. Duncan drew inspiration for the Revolutions podcast out of a deep personal interest from his teenage years, "When I was really getting into history when I was a teenager, the American Revolution was my favorite period of American history. I spent a whole period of time being really into the Russian Revolution." As he had done with "The History of Rome" podcast, Duncan has run a series of tours to accompany the podcast which visit historical sites mentioned on the show. Publications including "Time", "Popular Mechanics", and "The Guardian" have included "Revolutions" on their lists of recommended podcasts. Benjamin Wittes, after hearing the first two episodes of "Revolutions", called the podcast "informative, engaging, told in Duncan's usual easygoing, somewhat comic style that packs a lot of history into relatively brief discussions". Mike Duncan plans to write a book on the life of the Marquis de Lafayette titled "Citizen Lafayette". The introduction to each episode is a clip from Joseph Haydn's Symphony 92 (Oxford).