Who Was Franz Ferdinand Really? | After Dark

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On a summer day in Sarajevo in 1914, a young man fired two rounds of his pistol in the middle of the street, killing a Royal couple... He didn't know it then, but his actions would cause a chain reaction, resulting in the First World War. But who were Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, the Duchess Sofie? What kind of relationship did they have? And how did a single, chaotic day unravel into one of history’s most devastating turning points? Anthony is joined for the final time this month by the marvellous Gareth Russell to retell this tragedy. Gareth's book is “The Emperors: How Europe's Rulers Were Destroyed by the First World War”. 0:00 The Man Who Could Have Stopped WWI 2:45 The Great Habsburg Love Story: Franz & Sophie 5:54 A Federal Empire: Ferdinand’s Vision for Austria 9:52 Ritual Humiliation at the Imperial Court 14:05 Sarajevo 1914: The Fatal Anniversary 17:52 Inside the Black Hand: The Assassination Plot 23:07 The Wrong Turn: Two Shots That Changed History 27:30 The First Orphans of the Great War 30:01 The Blank Check: How Alliances Triggered War 35:11 The Point of No Return: July 1914 41:25 History’s Lessons for the Modern World Produced by Tom Delargy and McKenna Fernandez. Edited by Anna Brant. The senior producer was Freddy Chick. After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal is a History Hit podcast. Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe. All music from Epidemic Sounds. #HistoryHitPodcast #AfterDark #WW1