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Pablo Neruda: The Poet Whose Bones May Hold a Murder Mystery
Jun 17, 202615 min
Freeman Dyson: The Subversive Genius Who Refused to Stay in One Field
Jun 17, 202621 min
Rosalind Franklin: The Third Man of the Double Helix
Jun 17, 202621 min
Federico García Lorca: The Unsolved Murder of Spain's Greatest Poet
Jun 17, 202618 min
Frederick Sanger: The Quiet Man Who Sequenced Our DNA
Jun 17, 202619 min
John Stuart Mill: The Boy Raised as a Thinking Machine
Jun 17, 202625 min
Stefan Zweig: The Writer Who Inspired The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jun 17, 202619 min
Tom Wolfe: The Man in the White Suit Who Rewrote American Journalism
Jun 17, 202620 min
Jules Verne: Why the Father of Science Fiction Was Not a Prophet
Jun 17, 202620 min
William Burroughs: The Writer Who Shot His Wife and Chased the Ugly Spirit
Jun 17, 202621 min
Alexandre Dumas: The Author Who Lived Wilder Than His Own Fiction
Jun 17, 202621 min
Anselm of Canterbury: The Monk Who Defied Kings With Pure Logic
Jun 17, 202621 min
Christiaan Huygens: The Genius Newton Overshadowed
Jun 17, 202619 min
Edmond Halley: Far More Than the Man Behind the Comet
Jun 17, 202622 min
Francis Bacon: Logic, Scandal, and Death by Frozen Chicken
Jun 17, 202625 min
George Sand: The Woman Who Outwrote the Men of Paris
Jun 17, 202622 min
Hegel and the World Soul on Horseback
Jun 17, 202621 min
Anna Akhmatova: The Poet Who Outlasted Stalin
Jun 17, 202618 min
Baruch Spinoza: The Lens Grinder Who Redefined God
Jun 17, 202624 min
Bertolt Brecht: The Playwright Who Staged His Own Survival
Jun 17, 202620 min
Boethius: The Prisoner Who Saved Logic for the Western World
Jun 17, 202616 min
John Dillinger: The Bank Robber Who Built the Modern FBI
Jun 17, 202622 min
Lucky Luciano: The Gangster Who Built the Corporate Mafia
Jun 17, 202623 min
Epictetus: How a Slave Became the Freest Mind in Rome
Jun 17, 202620 min
Jack Kerouac: The Beat Icon Who Hated the Hippies He Inspired
Jun 17, 202617 min
Maxim Gorky: The Writer Trapped in Stalin's Gilded Cage
Jun 17, 202622 min
Molière: The Comedian Who Died Playing a Hypochondriac
Jun 17, 202622 min
Naguib Mahfouz: The Nobel Laureate Who Survived the Assassin's Knife
Jun 17, 202618 min
Otto Hahn: The Chemist Who Split the Atom and Wept
Jun 17, 202622 min
Pablo Escobar: Inside the $30 Billion Narco Empire
Jun 17, 202622 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
7320: Sandro Botticelli — The Ninety-Million-Dollar Comeback of a Forgotten Master | pplpod
Jun 17, 202619 min
7321: Titian — The Venetian Master Who Built a Ruthless Art Empire | pplpod
Jun 17, 202623 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
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
7315: Giotto di Bondone — The Medieval Painter Who Gave Art a Human Face | pplpod
Jun 17, 202622 min
7316: Auguste Rodin — The Sculptor Accused of Casting from Living Bodies | pplpod
Jun 17, 202624 min
7317: Rita Hayworth — The Tragic Invention of Hollywood's Love Goddess | pplpod
Jun 17, 202620 min
7318: The Doors — The Tragic Rebellion That Burned Out at Twenty-Seven | pplpod
Jun 17, 202621 min
7308: Olivier Messiaen — The Theology of Joy from a Nazi Prison Camp | pplpod
Jun 17, 202622 min
7309: Peter Paul Rubens — The Artist Who Was Also a Diplomat and a Spy | pplpod
Jun 17, 202619 min
7310: Pieter Bruegel the Elder — The Radical Decision to Paint Ordinary People | pplpod
Jun 17, 202623 min
7311: Stevie Wonder — The Blind Prodigy Who Hijacked the Motown Machine | pplpod
Jun 17, 202620 min
7312: Rick Wright — The Fired Pink Floyd Keyboardist Who Outearned the Whole Band | pplpod
Jun 17, 202623 min
7305: Mark Rothko — The Seagram Rebellion and the Painter Who Refused to Decorate | pplpod
Jun 17, 202624 min
7306: Neil Young — The Deliberate Crash into the Ditch That Defined a Career | pplpod
Jun 17, 202619 min
7307: Norman Mailer — Pulitzer Prizes, Penknives, and the Ego That Consumed American Letters | pplpod
Jun 17, 202620 min