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Wiltold Pilecki ~ The Man Who Volunteered

Episode 202

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Episode 202

Witold Pilecki’s story is one of the most remarkable yet little-known tales of World War II. A Polish soldier who voluntarily went undercover inside Auschwitz, he gathered cr…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Old Mother Shipton ~ Prophetess of the Northern Moors

Episode 201

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Episode 201

She was born in a cave during a thunderstorm. A child so strange in appearance and so wrapped in mystery that whispers of witchcraft followed her from the cradle to the grave…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Slash ~ From Stoke to Sunset Strip

Episode 200

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Episode 200

Before the top hat, before the roaring solos that defined a generation, and long before the stadiums full of screaming fans, there was just a kid named Saul.

Born to a mixed-r…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Crazy Horse ~ Echoes From the Black Hills

Episode 199

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Crazy Horse was a Lakota warrior who stood for freedom, tradition, and resistance. Born around 1840, he grew up watching his people’s land and way of life threatened by U.S. expansion. …

Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago

Bradford City ~ 40 Years On

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Episode 198

On May 11th, 1985, football fans filled Valley Parade with hopes of celebration. Bradford City had just clinched promotion—their first title in 56 years. It should have been …

Published on 4 months ago

John McCain ~ Behind Enemy Lines

Episode 197

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Episode 197

He was shot out of the sky over Hanoi, dragged from a lake, and locked away in a prison that would define the rest of his life. John McCain was a war hero, a maverick senato…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Ronnie Biggs ~ Robbery to Rio

Episode 196

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Episode 196

He was no mastermind, no cold-eyed kingpin orchestrating a perfect crime. Ronnie Biggs was something else entirely — an unlikely outlaw, a charming misfit who stumbled into o…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Mike Tyson ~ Forged in Brownsville

Episode 195

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Episode 195

He came from the kind of streets where nobody makes it out clean. Brownsville, Brooklyn—where the walls talked in gunshots and glass, and kids learned how to run before they …

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Robert Johnson ~ The Man Who Met Midnight

Episode 194

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Episode 194

There are stories passed from mouth to mouth, drifting like smoke down dirt roads and along backwoods barrooms. Stories of a man with a guitar slung low, fingers that moved l…

Published on 4 months, 4 weeks ago

Giuseppe Garibaldi ~ The Wild Son of Nice (Part Two)

Episode 193

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Episode 193

The battle may have crowned him a hero, but peace made him a problem.

In Part Two of our journey, the wild son of Nice is no longer charging into war with a sword raised high—…

Published on 5 months ago