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Tim is running the London Marathon on the 26th of April. To give him a week off to finish training, we're playing this running-themed classic from the archives. If you would like to donate to Teenage Cancer Trust, Tim's fundraising page is at tinyurl.com/HarfordMarathon - any sup ...  Show more

In 1860, police officer Robert O'Hara Burke plans an expedition to map the mysterious blank in the centre of Australia. Joining him is scientist William Wills, and a ragtag team of hires. Burke falls out with virtually everyone around him, and demonstrates an uncanny ability to m ...  Show more

James Baldwin was a brilliant essayist, one of the chroniclers of the Civil Rights Movement, and a powerful voice against racism. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

In honor of MLK Day, Roy Wood Jr. takes a look at stunningly inappropriate ways businesses and advertisers have chosen to commemorate the legacy of Dr. King. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informa ...  Show more

Cultural Icon, podcaster, and Multiple New York Times best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell sits down with Ellen to discuss memory, feeling for a living, and his new book Miracle and Wonder, Conversations with Paul Simon. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices ...  Show more

On this episode of Our American Stories, Kentucky journalist Sam Terry tells the story of William King Solomon, a gravedigger who may have saved the town of Lexington during the Cholera epidemic of 1833; and TJ Stiles tells the humble story of Cornelius Vanderbilt and how he beca ...  Show more