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7173: Dizzy Gillespie — How the Clown Prince of Jazz Reinvented American Music | 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
7171: Antonio Vivaldi — The Red Priest Who Vanished from Music History for 200 Years | pplpod
Jun 16, 202622 min
7170: The Beatles — Hamburg Grit and the Most Spectacular Implosion in Music History | pplpod
Jun 16, 202617 min
7168: Charlton Heston — From Marching with MLK to Leading the NRA | pplpod
Jun 16, 202617 min
7169: Gregory Peck — The Private Struggles Behind Hollywood’s Moral Compass | pplpod
Jun 16, 202622 min
7172: George Bernard Shaw — How the Original Provocateur Hacked the Attention Economy | pplpod
Jun 16, 202623 min
7166: Arthur C. Clarke — Prophet of the Space Age Who Saw the Future First | pplpod
Jun 16, 202622 min
7167: Charles Mingus — Jazz Symphonies, Volcanic Rage, and a Cat Training Manual | pplpod
Jun 16, 202624 min
7165: Agatha Christie — The Secret Life Beyond the Queen of Crime | pplpod
Jun 16, 202618 min
Samuel Morse: The Failed Portrait Painter Who Connected the World With Dots and Dashes
Jun 16, 202622 min
Rudolf Diesel: The Engineer Who Invented the Diesel Engine and Vanished From a Ship
Jun 16, 202620 min
Subhas Chandra Bose: The Indian Nationalist Who Allied With Hitler and Japan to Fight the British
Jun 16, 202620 min
Zhou Enlai: The Diplomat, Spymaster, and Survivor Who Held China Together While Mao Tore It Apart
Jun 16, 202621 min
John Keats: The Surgeon-Poet Who Wrote Immortal Verse and Died at Twenty-Five
Jun 16, 202619 min
Arthur Conan Doyle: Why Sherlock Holmes's Creator Believed in Fairies and Fought His Own Character
Jun 16, 202620 min
Linus Torvalds: The Rude Finnish Genius Who Built Linux and Git and Changed Computing Forever
Jun 16, 202622 min
Murasaki Shikibu: The Court Lady Who Secretly Wrote the World's First Novel
Jun 16, 202619 min
Alexander Pope: The Four-Foot-Six Poet Who Fought Literary Wars With Loaded Couplets
Jun 16, 202621 min
Jonathan Swift: The Ruthless Political Satirist Whose Pen Was More Dangerous Than Any Weapon
Jun 16, 202622 min
Daniel Defoe: The Secret Spy and Serial Bankrupt Who Wrote Robinson Crusoe
Jun 16, 202619 min
Lord Kelvin: The Victorian Genius Who Called Radio Useless and Got the Age of the Earth Spectacularly Wrong
Jun 16, 202620 min
Soichiro Honda: The Rebellious Mechanic Who Built a Global Empire From a Bicycle Engine
Jun 16, 202619 min
Matsuo Basho: The Ninja-Trained Wanderer Who Became Japan's Greatest Haiku Master
Jun 16, 202621 min
Benazir Bhutto: The Contradictory Life of Pakistan's First Female Prime Minister
Jun 16, 202616 min
Rudolf Diesel: The Engineer Who Invented the Diesel Engine and Vanished From a Ship
Jun 16, 202620 min
Nikola Tesla: The Broke, Pigeon-Loving Genius Who Electrified the Modern World
Jun 16, 202618 min
Edward Teller: The Dangerous Brilliance of the Father of the Hydrogen Bomb
Jun 16, 202624 min
Sei Shonagon: The Unfiltered Court Lady Whose Gossip Became Japanese Literature's First Blog
Jun 16, 202620 min
John Milton: The Blind Republican Rebel Who Dictated Paradise Lost to His Daughters
Jun 16, 202624 min
Li Bai: The Outlaw Poet Who Drank, Dueled, and Wrote China's Most Beloved Verses
Jun 16, 202612 min
Ray Bradbury: The Roller-Skating Library Kid Who Wrote His Way From Depression-Era Los Angeles to Mars
Jun 16, 202621 min
J.R.R. Tolkien: How the Trenches of World War I and a Love Story Built Middle-earth
Jun 16, 202620 min
Du Fu: How Failure, War, and Starvation Forged China's Greatest Poet
Jun 16, 202622 min
John Donne: From London's Most Scandalous Poet to the Pulpit of St. Paul's Cathedral
Jun 16, 202622 min
Rumi: How a Medieval Islamic Jurist Became the Best-Selling Poet in America
Jun 16, 202618 min
Bram Stoker: How a Dublin Bureaucrat Created Dracula and Invented Modern Horror
Jun 16, 202623 min
Guglielmo Marconi: The Self-Taught Tinkerer Who Networked the World Without Wires
Jun 16, 202622 min
Niccolo Paganini: The Violinist Who Was So Good People Thought He'd Sold His Soul to the Devil
Jun 16, 202621 min
Hafez: The Persian Poet Who Outwitted Tyrants and Became Iran's National Oracle
Jun 16, 202621 min
George Westinghouse: The Inventor-Industrialist Who Powered the Modern World and Lost to Edison's PR Machine
Jun 16, 202621 min
Gottlieb Daimler: The Secret Engine Shed Where the Automobile Was Really Born
Jun 16, 202621 min
George Orwell: The Eton Rebel Who Lived Among the Poor and Wrote 1984 While Dying
Jun 16, 202617 min
Bill Gates: From Software Tycoon and Monopolist to the World's Most Embattled Philanthropist
Jun 16, 202622 min
Enzo Ferrari: The Racing Obsessive Whose Cars Killed Drivers and Made Him a Legend
Jun 16, 202624 min
Bela Bartok: The Composer Who Carried a Muddy Phonograph Into the Mountains to Save Dying Music
Jun 16, 202620 min
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar: Calculating the Sun's Fate and the Atomic Bomb's Power
Jun 16, 202621 min
Cyrus McCormick: The Reaper Baron Whose Invention Myth Was More Fiction Than Fact
Jun 16, 202621 min
C.S. Lewis: The Atheist Scholar Who Became Christianity's Most Persuasive Modern Defender
Jun 16, 202622 min