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Back to SearchEI-Cid ~ السيد ~ al-Sayyid ~ Between the Cross and the Crescent
Episode 238
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Episode 238
Before the legend, before the ballads and the bronze statues, there was a man known simply as السيد — al-Sayyid.
A title w…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Tsutomu Yamaguchi ~ Burned by Humanity’s Wrath Twice
Episode 237
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Episode 237
He steps off the train in Hiroshima with a folder of shipyard plans under his arm, thinking only of getting home. It’s the…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Mani ~ Echoes from the Madchester Scene
Episode 236
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Episode 236
Born Gary Mounfield in 1962 in Manchester, Mani became the iconic bassist of The Stone Roses, a band that helped define th…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Richard Pryor ~ When Comedy Found Its Courage
Episode 235
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Episode 235
Richard Pryor’s story begins far from the bright stages and film sets that would later define him. Born into a world marke…
5 months ago
Brian Epstein ~ The 5th Beatle
Episode 234
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Episode 234
They called him the Fifth Beatle — the man who discovered four lads from Liverpool and helped turn them into the biggest b…
5 months, 1 week ago
John Cadbury ~ The Birmingham Alchemist
Episode 233
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Episode 233
Birmingham, 1824. The air hums with the rhythm of the Industrial Revolution—iron, smoke, and ambition shaping a restless c…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
James Brown ~ Funk on Fire
Episode 232
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Episode 232
Before there was funk, before soul had a name, there was James Brown — the man who turned rhythm into revolution. From swe…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Eddie St.James ~ Fever Burn
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Eddie St. James ~ Fever Burn
Sometimes the world has a funny way of circling back.
A few weeks after episode 182 — our story of Samuel …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Brighton Bombing Part 2 ~ The Aftermath
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Episode 231
Brighton, October 1984 — The Aftermath
The blast has faded, but its echo still hangs in the air.
Smoke drifts through the wr…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Brighton Bombing ~ Part 1
Episode 230
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Episode 230
Brighton, October 1984.
A calm seaside city, glittering under streetlights and the low hum of the pier. The gulls cry over …
6 months ago