Compact Biographies

In the fifth episode of season 8 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the life of the first man to step foot on the surface of the moon - Neil Armstrong. Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In the fourth episode of season 8 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the life of a pioneering female aviator who was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean and whose disappearance remains a mystery to this day - Amelia Earhart. Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In the third episode of season 8 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the life of the man who Buster Keaton called "the funniest" - Stan Laurel. Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In the second episode of season 8 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the life of the man who made it possible for blind people to read and write - Louis Braille. Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In the first episode of season 8 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast we take a brief look at the life of the world's first computer programmer - Ada Lovelace Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In the tenth and final episode of season 7 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast we take a brief look at the life of the man who is considered to be the father of modern computing - Charles Babbage Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In episode 9 of the seventh season of 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the life of one of the World's favourite children's authors and illustrators - Beatrix Potter. Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In episode 8 of the seventh season of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the life of mathematics genius, philosopher and Nobel Prize winner - Bertrand Russell. Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In episode 7 of the seventh season of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the ultimately tragic life of a true legend of jazz music - Billie Holiday. Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In episode 6 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the life of the first black baseball player to be called up to the major leagues - Jackie Robinson. Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In episode 5 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the life of one of the most graceful dancers and actresses from the golden age of cinema. She made ten films with Fred Astaire and she is of course - Ginger Rogers. Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In episode 4 of season 7 of 5 Minute Biographies, we take a brief look at the life of a man who set the foundation for modern optics and produced groundbreaking work on planetary motion coming up with fundemental laws of motion along the way - Johannes Kepler. Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In episode 3 of season 7 of 5 Minute Biographies, we take a brief look at the life of a man who arguably defined a music genre but was also successful in many others - Elvis Presley. Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In the second episode of season seven of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the life of a man whose rose from nothing to become Archbishop of Canterbury, only to be killed by a King who couldn't get what he wanted - Thomas Becket. Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In the first episode of season seven of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the life of a man whose name has become synonymous with the word 'genius' - Albert Einstein. Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In the 10th and final episode of season 6 of 5 Minute Biographies we take a brief look at the life of the man who Rolling Stone magazine called "the greatest rock star ever" - David Bowie. Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In the ninth episode of season 6 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the life of an actress and humanitarian who has been described by some as the most beautiful woman in the world and the most beautiful woman of the 20th Century - Audrey Hepburn. Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In the eighth episode of season 6 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the life of an author who wrote episodes for Doctor Who and worked with Monty Python, but will probably always be remembered for his amazing comedy sci-fi radio series, The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams.

In the seventh episode of season 6 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the life of the man who drafted the Declaration of Independence and was the third President of the United States - Thomas Jefferson.

In the sixth episode of season 6 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the life of a World War II combat veteran who was wounded in action and went on to become one of Hollywood's best loved Western and war movie actors - Lee Marvin.

In the fifth episode of season 6 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the life of the man who gave us Shere Khan, Bagheera and of course the young orphan boy called Mowgli in his Jungle Books, the author Rudyard Kipling.

In the fourth episode of season 6 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the life of the woman who is remembered for refusing to give up her bus seat and who went on to become one of the best-known figures in the fight for racial equality in the USA - Rosa Parks.

In the third episode of season 6 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the life of the man who is remembered as the main conspirator in the gunpowder plot - Guy Fawkes.

In the second episode of season 6 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the life of one of the greatest generals in American history and the 18th President of the United States.

In the first episode of season 6 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the life of the first head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the FBI - J. Edgar Hoover.

In the tenth and final episode of season 5 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a look at the life of a legendary actor, political activist, race car driver, race team owner and philanthropist - Paul Newman

In the ninth episode of season 5 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a look at the life of a pioneer aviator who later became a controversial figure during the build-up to the Second World War - Charles Lindbergh

In the eighth episode of season 5 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a look at the life of a renowned female author whose life was marred by tragedy - Mary Shelley.

In the seventh episode of season 5 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a look at the life of one half of one of the best-loved comedy duo's of all time - Oliver Hardy.

In the sixth episode of season 5 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a look at the life of one of the leading man in over 60 Hollywood movies and who is often referred to as the King of Hollywood - Clark Gable.

In the fifth episode of season 5 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a look at the life of an actress and singer who spent 45 of her 47 years in the public eye - Judy Garland.

In the fourth episode of season 5 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a look at the life of an American mobster who was one of the most infamous and feared gangsters of his day - Bugsy Siegel.

In the third episode of season 5 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a look at the life of an actress who was married to Mickey Rooney, had a relationship with Howard Hughes and swam naked in Ernest Hemingway's swimming pool - Ava Gardner.

In the second episode of season 5 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a look at the life of a man who changed the way early movies were made, went on to revolutionise the movie industry when he helped create United Artists and was ultimately accused of being a communist. He was a comedy genius who is still revered decades after his death. Charlie Chaplin.

In the first episode of season 5 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a look at the life of an icon of the silver screen who made his name in a television Western before moving on to movie legend status - Steve McQueen.

In the tenth and final episode of season 4 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast we take a look at the life of the man, whose assassination is blamed for the start of the First World War - Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.

In the ninth episode of the fourth season of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the life of one of the most influential women of the 16th century, and arguably in all of history - Catherine de Medici. Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In the eighth episode of the fourth season of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a look at the life of one of the Rat Pack - actor, singer, dancer and all-round entertainer - Sammy Davis Junior. Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In the seventh episode of the fourth season of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the tragically short life of the martial arts movie legend that was - Bruce Lee. Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In the sixth episode of the fourth season of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a look at the life of the man who brought about the fall of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire, its first Emperor - Julius Caesar. Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In the fifth episode of the fourth season of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a look at the life of the American social reformer and women's rights activist, Susan B. Anthony. Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In the fourth episode of the fourth season of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the life of a President of the United States who became known as The Great Emancipator - Abraham Lincoln. Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In the third episode of the fourth season of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the often turbulent life of musician and civil rights activist Nina Simone. Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In the second episode of the fourth season of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the life of the father of the American Navy, John Paul Jones. Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In the first episode of the fourth season of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the life of one of England's most famous, or notorious Kings - Henry VIII. Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In the fourth episode of the third season of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a look at the short, violent life of bank-robbing legend John Dillinger. Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In the third episode of the third season of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the life of music legend Waylon Jennings. Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In the second episode of the third season of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a look at the life of discovery in the sciences that was led by Nobel laureate Francis Crick. Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In the first episode of the third season of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the short and turbulent life of a Hollywood legend - Marilyn Monroe. Visit our website: Compact Biographies Find us on our social media sites: Facebook Instagram Pinterest Youtube Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!

In the tenth and final episode of season 2 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the short and sad life of a genius from the world of art - Vincent Van Gogh. Please consider supporting the show by buying me a coffee at http://www.5minutebiographies.com/coffee/ - Thanks!