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When the Bells Stop Ringing 6 | The Candle Carrier
Episode 1331
In Beirut, the darkness doesn't fall gently; it seizes the city. On Christmas Eve, the power grid fails, leaving twelve-year-old Nour and her neighbo…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
When the Bells Stop Ringing 5 | The Pub on the Corner
Episode 1330
In Dublin, the rain drifts rather than falls, turning the streetlights of Temple Bar into blurred halos. Cillian sits alone in a pub, avoiding the de…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
TOL | The Invisible Walls We Build: Finding Dignity in the Cold
Episode 1329
It is easier to be charitable than it is to be kind. Charity requires a coin; kindness requires a piece of ourselves. In this episode of Thinking Out…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
When the Bells Stop Ringing 4 | The Indigo Scarf
Episode 1328
Seoul is a city of neon miracles and heated benches, but for Min-ji, a seventy-year-old cardboard collector, it is a place of relentless cold. She mo…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
When the Bells Stop Ringing 3 | The Mountain Pass
Episode 1327
High in the Caucasus Mountains, the wind screams across a frozen ridge known as No Man’s Land. Levan, a soldier on guard duty, stares through his sco…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
When the Bells Stop Ringing 2 | Strings in the Metro
Episode 1326
In the depths of the Prague metro station, amidst the screech of brakes and the rush of commuters desperate to get home, an old man named Karel plays…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
When the Bells Stop Ringing 1 | The Pâtisserie Window
Episode 1325
Today is the first of our final series for this year, When the Bells Stop Ringing to celebrate the season of light together. Our first story is The P…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
The Story I Never Told: A New Future for English Plus
This episode is different. For the first time, I'm sharing my personal story—the journey that explains everything about who I am and why I'm making a…
11 months ago
MagTalk | Beyond the Scramble: Overcoming Artificial Borders Through 21st-Century Cooperation
Episode 1324
We're all familiar with the "Scramble for Africa" and the Sykes-Picot agreement—arbitrary lines drawn by colonial powers that have caused a century o…
11 months, 1 week ago
The Long Shadow 1 | The Philosophy of Empires: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Episode 1323
How do you pull off the biggest, most violent smash-and-grab in human history? You can't just say that's what you're doing. You need a story. You nee…
11 months, 1 week ago