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Founding Fathers | Saints and Sinners | 4
Episode 150
Was Alexander Hamilton the real architect of American capitalism — or just the most self-destructive genius in the room? What does it mean that the m…
2 months, 1 week ago
Founding Fathers | The Original Brexit | 3
Episode 149
Who was the boring lawyer who quietly built the machine that made America work? Was John Adams so relentlessly right that even his allies couldn't st…
2 months, 1 week ago
The Founding Fathers | The O.G.'s | 2
Episode 148
What turned America's most famous British loyalist into its most dangerous revolutionary? What does a public humiliation in a Whitehall chamber have …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Founding Fathers | The invention of the United States | 1
Episode 147
How did a collection of desperate survivors, religious outcasts, and petty criminals become the architects of the world's most powerful nation? What …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Rasputin | How Rumour Broke an Empire | Feat. Sir Antony Beevor
Episode 146
How does a Siberian peasant mystic end up controlling the most powerful empire in Europe? Could the rumours that destroyed a dynasty have been entire…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Diets | One Stomach Flu Away From My Goal Weight | 2
Episode 145
What did it take for human beings to start controlling what they ate — and why did "health" so quickly become a cover
story for something else? How di…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Diets | Three Eggs and a Bottle of Wine | 1
Episode 144
What did Vogue actually recommend women eat in 1977 — and why did it make one food writer cry in the
bathroom? How did the Greeks turn a six-pack into…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Mystics | Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man In The World | 3
Episode 143
What happens when you raise a child telling him he's the Beast — and he decides to prove you right? Could a man
who genuinely repelled everyone around…
3 months ago
Mystics | Helena Blavatsky's Karma | 2
Episode 142
Who invented the spiritual vocabulary of the modern world — karma, reincarnation, yoga studios, the idea that you can be "spiritual but not religious…
3 months, 1 week ago
Mystics | Nostradamus: The Arophecary | 1
Episode 141
Nostradamus has predicted every major disaster in history — or so the internet would have you believe. Peter and Afua get behind the myth to meet the…
3 months, 1 week ago