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Back to Search7289: Gabriel Faure — The Radical French Voice That Reshaped Modern Harmony | pplpod
Episode 7289
Gabriel Faure composed music so subtle that audiences often missed how radical it was. His harmonies drifted between keys in ways that anticipated De…
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7290: Hieronymus Bosch — The Medieval Painter Whose Nightmares Still Haunt Us | pplpod
Episode 7290
Hieronymus Bosch painted monsters, demons, and torments so vivid and so strange that art historians have spent five centuries trying to figure out wh…
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7285: Bruce Springsteen — The Boss and the Myth of the American Working Class | pplpod
Episode 7285
Bruce Springsteen grew up in a dying factory town in New Jersey, watched his father move between dead-end jobs, and turned that anger and despair int…
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7287: Eric Clapton — Beyond the Guitar God Myth to the Man Underneath | pplpod
Episode 7287
Eric Clapton was called God on the walls of London before he turned twenty-five. Graffiti reading "Clapton is God" appeared across the city, and he s…
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7286: Donatello — The Sculptor Who Gave Stone a Psychology | pplpod
Episode 7286
Donatello carved the first freestanding nude sculpture since antiquity and gave Renaissance Florence figures so psychologically alive that contempora…
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7282: Sugar Ray Leonard — The Trauma Behind the Smile of Boxing's Golden Boy | pplpod
Episode 7282
Sugar Ray Leonard won an Olympic gold medal with a smile so bright that corporate sponsors lined up before he turned professional. Behind the charm w…
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7284: Antoni Gaudi — Why Barcelona's Genius Architect Rejected the Straight Line | pplpod
Episode 7284
Antoni Gaudi looked at the straight line and decided nature had no use for it. He built the Sagrada Familia, Casa Batllo, and Park Guell using curves…
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7283: Tom Brady — The 199th Pick and the Myth of Athletic Inevitability | pplpod
Episode 7283
Tom Brady was the 199th pick in the 2000 NFL Draft, selected after six quarterbacks nobody remembers. Twenty-three years later he retired with seven …
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7280: Edward III — The Accidental Legacy of England's Warrior King | pplpod
Episode 7280
Edward III overthrew his mother's regency at seventeen, launched the Hundred Years War, and presided over the devastating Black Death that killed a t…
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7279: James I — The Wisest Fool in Christendom and the King Who United Two Crowns | pplpod
Episode 7279
James I of England was called the wisest fool in Christendom — a king who wrote books on theology and demonology, commissioned the most famous Englis…
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