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On this episode of Our American Stories, the Third Reich lasted just twelve years, but the destruction it unleashed reshaped the world forever. In this episode, we examine the rise of Adolf Hitler—not as a sudden coup, but as a political ascent made possible through elections, in ...  Show more

On this episode of Our American Stories, long before leading ten publicly traded companies, Jerre Stead was waking up at 3 a.m. to deliver newspapers in rural Iowa. In this story, Stead explains how running a paper route at age nine—through snowstorms, strict deadlines, difficult ...  Show more

Make like Meghan and Harry’s wedding anniversary celebrations and sip a marg as you tune in to our jam-packed new episode. This week, Rachel & Roberta do a deep dive on the Cambridges’ ever-changing social media presence, Kate & William’s (er, Mom and Dad’s) bingo night at the Sh ...  Show more

This week, Margarette Lincoln on the secret life of Daniel Defoe, government agent; and Claire Lowdon transports herself back to the teenage turmoil of Martin Amis’s debut novel, fifty years on. ‘The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe’ edited by Nicholas Seag ...  Show more

Welcome back, RoRos! It's almost October, and we're still recording remotely (womp, womp). But we have tons of exciting (virtual) royal news this week, from Kate's outing with mums and babies to the Sussexes' joint TV appearance for Time100. Also, paparazzi pics of Louis, Barbado ...  Show more

This week, the ladies are joined by Finding Freedom author and ABC royal correspondent Omid Scobie as he revisits his Sussex biography one year later by re-releasing the book with a new epilogue. Plus, it’s been 24 years since Diana’s untimely death. There’s also a deep dive into ...  Show more