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7200: Edvard Grieg — Why Norway's Greatest Composer Hated His Own Masterpiece | pplpod
Jun 16, 202620 min
7201: Gene Wilder — The Comedy Genius Who Hid His Final Illness from the World | pplpod
Jun 16, 202619 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
7196: Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Opium Dreams and the Messy Genius of English Poetry | pplpod
Jun 16, 202622 min
7197: D.H. Lawrence — Banned Books, Scandal, and the Fire of English Literature | pplpod
Jun 16, 202621 min
7198: Satyajit Ray — The Uncompromising Eye of Indian Cinema | pplpod
Jun 16, 202624 min
7199: Thelonious Monk — The Brilliant Wrong Notes That Changed Jazz Forever | pplpod
Jun 16, 202625 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
7192: H.P. Lovecraft — The Tragic Recluse Who Created Cosmic Horror | pplpod
Jun 16, 202621 min
7193: Percy Bysshe Shelley — The Unburnt Heart and a Radical Poet's Wild Life | pplpod
Jun 16, 202623 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
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
7188: Samuel Johnson — The Man Who Defined the English Language Alone | pplpod
Jun 16, 202621 min
7189: Isaac Asimov — The Paradoxical Life of Science Fiction's Greatest Mind | pplpod
Jun 16, 202619 min
7185: W.B. Yeats — The Bizarre Afterlife of Ireland's Greatest Poet | pplpod
Jun 16, 202619 min
7183: Sergei Prokofiev — The Composer Who Died in Stalin’s Shadow on the Same Day | pplpod
Jun 16, 202620 min
7184: Sidney Poitier — From Dishwasher to Hollywood’s Barrier-Breaking Leading Man | pplpod
Jun 16, 202621 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
7180: Felix Mendelssohn — The Prodigy Who Rescued Bach from Two Centuries of Silence | pplpod
Jun 16, 202618 min
7181: Modest Mussorgsky — The Aristocrat Who Wrote Masterpieces While Living in Squalor | pplpod
Jun 16, 202620 min
7182: Prince — The Paradox of Total Control and Purple Genius | pplpod
Jun 16, 202620 min
7173: Dizzy Gillespie — How the Clown Prince of Jazz Reinvented American Music | pplpod
Jun 16, 202620 min
7174: Henry Purcell — The Baroque Genius Whose Music Inspired the Power Chord | pplpod
Jun 16, 202625 min
7175: Madonna — How She Hacked the Music Industry and Never Stopped Reinventing | pplpod
Jun 16, 202619 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
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
7170: The Beatles — Hamburg Grit and the Most Spectacular Implosion in Music History | pplpod
Jun 16, 202617 min
7171: Antonio Vivaldi — The Red Priest Who Vanished from Music History for 200 Years | pplpod
Jun 16, 202622 min
7172: George Bernard Shaw — How the Original Provocateur Hacked the Attention Economy | pplpod
Jun 16, 202623 min
7165: Agatha Christie — The Secret Life Beyond the Queen of Crime | pplpod
Jun 16, 202618 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
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
Soichiro Honda: The Rebellious Mechanic Who Built a Global Empire From a Bicycle Engine
Jun 16, 202619 min
Jonathan Swift: The Ruthless Political Satirist Whose Pen Was More Dangerous Than Any Weapon
Jun 16, 202622 min
Lord Kelvin: The Victorian Genius Who Called Radio Useless and Got the Age of the Earth Spectacularly Wrong
Jun 16, 202620 min
Daniel Defoe: The Secret Spy and Serial Bankrupt Who Wrote Robinson Crusoe
Jun 16, 202619 min
John Keats: The Surgeon-Poet Who Wrote Immortal Verse and Died at Twenty-Five
Jun 16, 202619 min
Murasaki Shikibu: The Court Lady Who Secretly Wrote the World's First Novel
Jun 16, 202619 min
Linus Torvalds: The Rude Finnish Genius Who Built Linux and Git and Changed Computing Forever
Jun 16, 202622 min