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Epictetus: How a Slave Became the Freest Mind in Rome
Jun 17, 202620 min
7324: Camille Saint-Saens — The Composer Who Locked Away His Own Masterpiece | pplpod
Jun 17, 202621 min
7319: Philip Roth — The Many Masks of America's Most Controversial Novelist | pplpod
Jun 17, 202622 min
7322: Truman Capote — The Spectacular Social Suicide of America's Most Famous Writer | pplpod
Jun 17, 202624 min
7323: Vivien Leigh — The Secret War with Bipolar Disorder Behind Scarlett O'Hara | pplpod
Jun 17, 202621 min
7321: Titian — The Venetian Master Who Built a Ruthless Art Empire | pplpod
Jun 17, 202623 min
7320: Sandro Botticelli — The Ninety-Million-Dollar Comeback of a Forgotten Master | pplpod
Jun 17, 202619 min
7313: Elton John — The Human Survival Story Behind the Costumes and the Hits | pplpod
Jun 17, 202622 min
7314: Fred Astaire — The Perfectionist Who Made the Impossible Look Effortless | pplpod
Jun 17, 202622 min
7317: Rita Hayworth — The Tragic Invention of Hollywood's Love Goddess | pplpod
Jun 17, 202620 min
7316: Auguste Rodin — The Sculptor Accused of Casting from Living Bodies | pplpod
Jun 17, 202624 min
7315: Giotto di Bondone — The Medieval Painter Who Gave Art a Human Face | pplpod
Jun 17, 202622 min
7318: The Doors — The Tragic Rebellion That Burned Out at Twenty-Seven | pplpod
Jun 17, 202621 min
7312: Rick Wright — The Fired Pink Floyd Keyboardist Who Outearned the Whole Band | pplpod
Jun 17, 202623 min
7311: Stevie Wonder — The Blind Prodigy Who Hijacked the Motown Machine | pplpod
Jun 17, 202620 min
7310: Pieter Bruegel the Elder — The Radical Decision to Paint Ordinary People | pplpod
Jun 17, 202623 min
7309: Peter Paul Rubens — The Artist Who Was Also a Diplomat and a Spy | pplpod
Jun 17, 202619 min
7308: Olivier Messiaen — The Theology of Joy from a Nazi Prison Camp | pplpod
Jun 17, 202622 min
7306: Neil Young — The Deliberate Crash into the Ditch That Defined a Career | pplpod
Jun 17, 202619 min
7305: Mark Rothko — The Seagram Rebellion and the Painter Who Refused to Decorate | pplpod
Jun 17, 202624 min
7307: Norman Mailer — Pulitzer Prizes, Penknives, and the Ego That Consumed American Letters | pplpod
Jun 17, 202620 min
7304: Marcel Duchamp — The Twenty-Five-Year Magic Trick That Fooled the Art World | pplpod
Jun 17, 202621 min
7303: Mae West — The Woman Who Turned Censorship into a Fortune | pplpod
Jun 17, 202622 min
7300: John Updike — Suburbia, Sex, and the Search for Salvation in Middle America | pplpod
Jun 17, 202622 min
7302: Leonard Bernstein — The Double Life of America's Most Famous Conductor | pplpod
Jun 17, 202621 min
7301: Joni Mitchell — Life from Both Sides Now and the Cost of Artistic Reinvention | pplpod
Jun 17, 202619 min
7299: John Cage — The Composer Who Invented Silence and Changed What Music Could Be | pplpod
Jun 17, 202624 min
7294: Led Zeppelin — How Four Musicians Hijacked the Music Industry | pplpod
Jun 17, 202625 min
7295: Leonard Cohen — How Betrayal, Bankruptcy, and Buddhism Produced Hallelujah | pplpod
Jun 17, 202619 min
7298: Joan Didion — The Architecture of Sentences and the Art of Controlled Collapse | pplpod
Jun 17, 202620 min
7297: Saul Bellow — How a Chicago Novelist Hacked the American Literary Establishment | pplpod
Jun 17, 202620 min
7293: Christoph Willibald Gluck — How One Composer Saved Opera from Its Own Ego | pplpod
Jun 17, 202620 min
7296: Claudio Monteverdi — The Composer Who Made Music Feel Human for the First Time | pplpod
Jun 17, 202616 min
7290: Hieronymus Bosch — The Medieval Painter Whose Nightmares Still Haunt Us | pplpod
Jun 17, 202622 min
7288: Erik Satie — The Eccentric Composer Who Invented Ambient Music a Century Early | pplpod
Jun 17, 202619 min
7292: Gene Kelly — How One Dancer Brought Athletic Power to the Hollywood Musical | pplpod
Jun 17, 202623 min
7291: Albrecht Durer — How a Renaissance Printmaker Went Viral Across Europe | pplpod
Jun 17, 202620 min
7289: Gabriel Faure — The Radical French Voice That Reshaped Modern Harmony | pplpod
Jun 17, 202622 min
7287: Eric Clapton — Beyond the Guitar God Myth to the Man Underneath | pplpod
Jun 17, 202620 min
7286: Donatello — The Sculptor Who Gave Stone a Psychology | pplpod
Jun 17, 202621 min
7285: Bruce Springsteen — The Boss and the Myth of the American Working Class | pplpod
Jun 17, 202621 min
7284: Antoni Gaudi — Why Barcelona's Genius Architect Rejected the Straight Line | pplpod
Jun 17, 202624 min
7283: Tom Brady — The 199th Pick and the Myth of Athletic Inevitability | pplpod
Jun 17, 202620 min
7282: Sugar Ray Leonard — The Trauma Behind the Smile of Boxing's Golden Boy | pplpod
Jun 17, 202621 min
7281: Rocky Marciano — The Short Heavyweight Who Retired Undefeated | pplpod
Jun 17, 202623 min
7280: Edward III — The Accidental Legacy of England's Warrior King | pplpod
Jun 17, 202623 min
7279: James I — The Wisest Fool in Christendom and the King Who United Two Crowns | pplpod
Jun 17, 202621 min
7278: Louis XVI — The Shy King Whose Hesitation Ruined France | pplpod
Jun 17, 202622 min
7277: John Adams — The Science Nerd America Called a Tyrant | pplpod
Jun 17, 202621 min
7272: Roger Bannister — The Medical Student Who Broke the Four-Minute Mile | pplpod
Jun 17, 202621 min