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Ma Rainey's Mic Drop
Season 4
June 12, 1928. The great Blues singer Ma Rainey steps up to the microphone at a studio in Chicago. She’s there to record a scandalous song called “Pr…
2 years, 10 months ago
Wondery & Bloomberg Present - Spellcaster: The Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried
When nerdy gamer Sam Bankman-Fried rocketed to fame as the world’s richest 29-year-old, he pledged to donate his billions to good causes. But when Sa…
2 years, 10 months ago
Mary Shelley Brings Frankenstein to Life
Season 4
June 10, 1816. A storm settles over Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Stuck inside a romantic villa, five writers grow restless. Then one of them issues a ch…
2 years, 10 months ago
FDR Tries to Pack the Court
Season 4
June 1, 1936. The Supreme Court hands down its last decision of the term. The justices have dealt blow after blow to President Roosevelt’s New Deal l…
2 years, 10 months ago
Bonnie and Clyde’s Final Ride
Season 4
May 23, 1934. On a muggy Louisiana morning, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow speed toward the Texas border. They’ve been on the run for over a year—wan…
2 years, 10 months ago
A Teenage Girl Saves France
Season 4
May 16, 1920. Tens of thousands of people surround St. Peter’s Basilica to honor Joan of Arc, a French peasant girl who died nearly five hundred year…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Spy Who Fooled the FBI
Season 4
May 10, 2002. Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life in prison without parole. His crime? Selling scads of top-secret information to th…
2 years, 11 months ago
Bonus: The Coronation of King Charles III (feat. Katie Nicholl)
Season 4
May 6, 2023. For the first time in 70 years, Great Britain will crown a new monarch. King Charles III will officially take the throne, and his wife w…
2 years, 11 months ago
The World’s First Budget Airline Takes Off
Season 4
May 6, 1949. On the runway at Lindbergh Field in San Diego, a scrappy upstart called Pacific Southwest Airlines, PSA, is about to take its first flig…
2 years, 11 months ago
A Concubine Rises to Rule China
Season 4
April 27, 1856. In Beijing’s Forbidden City, one of the emperor’s consorts, a woman named Cixi, has given birth to a son – the emperor’s first heir. …
2 years, 11 months ago