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The Music Show #3
Episode 192
We put themed music at the end of each episode - "dessert," if you will. In the spirit of this holiday season, where we give ourselves the joy of eat…
4 years, 11 months ago
Fannie Farmer
Episode 191
Fannie Farmer was written off by society at an early age due to her disability. She rallied as an adult and parlayed her talent in the kitchen into a…
4 years, 11 months ago
Elizabeth Bathory
Episode 190
Some say she was a vicious killer, others contend that she was merely a victim of the patriarchy, but Countess Elizabeth Bathory is one of the most n…
5 years ago
Wondery Presents: Melon's House Party
Welcome to Melon’s House Party! Did you know that the objects in your house sing and speak all day long? They just do so in a key only dogs can hear.…
5 years ago
Happy I Love Lucy Day!
Episode 189
National I Love Lucy Day is October 15th, so join us in celebrating the life of this iconic woman with a supersized episode that combines all of our …
5 years ago
Sarah Bernhardt
Episode 188
Sarah Bernhardt began her life in France as the unwanted child of a heartless courtesan. She found her first true home in the theater; and through ha…
5 years, 1 month ago
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Part 2
Episode 187
The worldwide eradication of smallpox was not Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's only claim to fame; she discarded the life she knew and set out to remake h…
5 years, 1 month ago
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Part 1
Episode 186
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was brought up to believe that it was her face that was her fortune, and her place to be simply decorative. However, her un…
5 years, 2 months ago
Typhoid Mary Mallon Revisited
Episode 185
There are quite a few parallels between Mary Mallon's story (a series of typhoid outbreaks) and our present-day pandemic, and so there are t…
5 years, 2 months ago
Announcement: Gone fishin'
Episode 184
A summer announcement and a song
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5 years, 3 months ago