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Back to Search7169: Gregory Peck — The Private Struggles Behind Hollywood’s Moral Compass | pplpod
Episode 7169
The American Film Institute named Gregory Peck’s Atticus Finch the greatest movie hero in cinema history. Audiences saw unshakable integrity. What th…
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7170: The Beatles — Hamburg Grit and the Most Spectacular Implosion in Music History | pplpod
Episode 7170
Before the screaming fans and matching suits, the Beatles were five rough Liverpool teenagers playing eight-hour sets in Hamburg strip clubs. They sl…
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7165: Agatha Christie — The Secret Life Beyond the Queen of Crime | pplpod
Episode 7165
Agatha Christie sold two billion books and created two of fiction’s most enduring detectives. Her real life held bigger mysteries — an eleven-day dis…
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7166: Arthur C. Clarke — Prophet of the Space Age Who Saw the Future First | pplpod
Episode 7166
Arthur C. Clarke predicted geostationary communications satellites in 1945, two decades before one existed. The boy from Somerset who mapped the moon…
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7167: Charles Mingus — Jazz Symphonies, Volcanic Rage, and a Cat Training Manual | pplpod
Episode 7167
Charles Mingus composed jazz that sounded like a symphony orchestra arguing. He fought club owners with his fists, fired musicians mid-set, and once …
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Samuel Morse: The Failed Portrait Painter Who Connected the World With Dots and Dashes
Episode 7151
Samuel Morse wanted to be remembered as a painter. Instead, he invented the telegraph and the code that bears his name — motivated by his wife's deat…
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Rudolf Diesel: The Engineer Who Invented the Diesel Engine and Vanished From a Ship
Episode 7152
Rudolf Diesel invented the most efficient internal combustion engine ever designed and then disappeared from a cross-Channel steamer in 1913. His bod…
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Subhas Chandra Bose: The Indian Nationalist Who Allied With Hitler and Japan to Fight the British
Episode 7153
Subhas Chandra Bose allied with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan to fight the British Empire for Indian independence. He escaped house arrest, met Hit…
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Arthur Conan Doyle: Why Sherlock Holmes's Creator Believed in Fairies and Fought His Own Character
Episode 7163
Arthur Conan Doyle created the most rational fictional detective in literary history — and spent his later years championing spiritualism, defending …
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Linus Torvalds: The Rude Finnish Genius Who Built Linux and Git and Changed Computing Forever
Episode 7161
Linus Torvalds built the Linux operating system kernel as a hobby project in his Helsinki bedroom, then created Git — the version control system that…
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