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7226: Sophia Loren — From Wartime Curtains to the Academy Awards | pplpod

Jun 16, 202620 min

7222: Paul McCartney — From Skiffle Bands to the Edge of AI and Silence | pplpod

Jun 16, 202621 min

7224: Sergio Leone — The Italian Outsider Who Reinvented the American Cowboy | pplpod

Jun 16, 202618 min

7223: Richard Pryor — The Comedian Who Turned His Own Fire Into Comedy Gold | pplpod

Jun 16, 202620 min

7221: Mick Jagger — The Rock Star Who Was Always a CEO in Disguise | pplpod

Jun 16, 202618 min

7220: Maurice Ravel — The Obsessive Watchmaker Who Crafted Perfect Music | pplpod

Jun 16, 202621 min

7216: Lead Belly — The Man Who Sang His Way Out of Prison Twice | pplpod

Jun 16, 202616 min

7217: Lucille Ball — The Fearless Architect of Modern Television | pplpod

Jun 16, 202619 min

7219: Marlene Dietrich — The Hollywood Icon Who Fought Fascism with Glamour and Grit | pplpod

Jun 16, 202621 min

7218: Magic Johnson — From Court Vision to Billion-Dollar Business Empire | pplpod

Jun 16, 202620 min

7215: John Lennon — The Journey from Rage to Stillness and Back Again | pplpod

Jun 16, 202620 min

7214: Joan Crawford — The Relentless Survivor Beyond the Wire Hanger Mythology | pplpod

Jun 16, 202621 min

7213: Sergei Rachmaninoff — How He Survived Depression, Revolution, and Exile | pplpod

Jun 16, 202622 min

7211: Larry Bird — How a Small-Town Kid Mastered Every Role in the NBA | pplpod

Jun 16, 202622 min

7210: Henry Fonda — The Cold Perfectionist Behind Hollywood's Warmest Characters | pplpod

Jun 16, 202622 min

7212: Michael Jackson — How the World's Greatest Entertainer Was Broken by Fame | pplpod

Jun 16, 202620 min

7209: Harry Belafonte — The Calypso King Who Secretly Bankrolled the Civil Rights Movement | pplpod

Jun 16, 202619 min

7207: David Bowie — Ziggy Stardust, the Psychological Submarine, and Infinite Reinvention | pplpod

Jun 16, 202622 min

7208: George Harrison — The Quiet Beatle's Beautifully Contradictory Life | pplpod

Jun 16, 202622 min

7206: Bessie Smith — The Empress of the Blues and Her Unmarked Grave | pplpod

Jun 16, 202620 min

7205: Babe Didrikson Zaharias — The Greatest Multi-Sport Athlete Who Ever Lived | pplpod

Jun 16, 202621 min

7201: Gene Wilder — The Comedy Genius Who Hid His Final Illness from the World | pplpod

Jun 16, 202619 min

7200: Edvard Grieg — Why Norway's Greatest Composer Hated His Own Masterpiece | pplpod

Jun 16, 202620 min

7202: Gioachino Rossini — Why Opera's Greatest Talent Walked Away at Thirty-Seven | pplpod

Jun 16, 202621 min

7203: Carl Lewis — Why the World Booed the Greatest Track Athlete of His Era | pplpod

Jun 16, 202614 min

7204: William Wordsworth — From French Revolutionary to England's Poet Laureate | pplpod

Jun 16, 202620 min

7197: D.H. Lawrence — Banned Books, Scandal, and the Fire of English Literature | pplpod

Jun 16, 202621 min

7199: Thelonious Monk — The Brilliant Wrong Notes That Changed Jazz Forever | pplpod

Jun 16, 202625 min

7198: Satyajit Ray — The Uncompromising Eye of Indian Cinema | pplpod

Jun 16, 202624 min

7196: Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Opium Dreams and the Messy Genius of English Poetry | pplpod

Jun 16, 202622 min

7192: H.P. Lovecraft — The Tragic Recluse Who Created Cosmic Horror | pplpod

Jun 16, 202621 min

7194: Rimsky-Korsakov — The Naval Officer Who Became Russia's Greatest Orchestrator | pplpod

Jun 16, 202621 min

7195: B.B. King — The Man Who Made Lucille Sing and the Blues Weep | pplpod

Jun 16, 202620 min

7193: Percy Bysshe Shelley — The Unburnt Heart and a Radical Poet's Wild Life | pplpod

Jun 16, 202623 min

7190: Stephen King — The Real Monsters Behind America's Master of Horror | pplpod

Jun 16, 202622 min

7191: Domenico Scarlatti — How Spain Transformed a Baroque Italian into a Genius | pplpod

Jun 16, 202618 min

7189: Isaac Asimov — The Paradoxical Life of Science Fiction's Greatest Mind | pplpod

Jun 16, 202619 min

7188: Samuel Johnson — The Man Who Defined the English Language Alone | pplpod

Jun 16, 202621 min

7186: The Blues Giant Who Traded Ledgers for Licks | pplpod

Jun 16, 202624 min

7187: Bob Marley — The Bullet Scars Behind the World's Most Famous Smile | pplpod

Jun 16, 202625 min

7185: W.B. Yeats — The Bizarre Afterlife of Ireland's Greatest Poet | pplpod

Jun 16, 202619 min

7184: Sidney Poitier — From Dishwasher to Hollywood’s Barrier-Breaking Leading Man | pplpod

Jun 16, 202621 min

7183: Sergei Prokofiev — The Composer Who Died in Stalin’s Shadow on the Same Day | pplpod

Jun 16, 202620 min

7182: Prince — The Paradox of Total Control and Purple Genius | pplpod

Jun 16, 202620 min

7181: Modest Mussorgsky — The Aristocrat Who Wrote Masterpieces While Living in Squalor | pplpod

Jun 16, 202620 min

7180: Felix Mendelssohn — The Prodigy Who Rescued Bach from Two Centuries of Silence | pplpod

Jun 16, 202618 min

7178: Jimi Hendrix — The Quiet Genius Beyond the Burning Guitar | pplpod

Jun 16, 202624 min

7179: Ma Rainey — The Fearless, Unapologetic Mother of the Blues | pplpod

Jun 16, 202620 min

7176: Muddy Waters — How a Mississippi Sharecropper Plugged In and Electrified the Blues | pplpod

Jun 16, 202624 min

7177: The Rolling Stones — How Rock’s Greatest Outlaws Built an Empire on Rebellion | pplpod

Jun 16, 202620 min