Parhaat Origin Story Podcastit (2025)

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The New Left – Part Two – Children of the Revolution 1:12:46

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Welcome to the second episode of the week as we conclude the story of the New Left. In part one, we explained the various groups and thinkersthat fed into the New Left’s attempts to reimagine socialism during the 1960s. It all comes to a head in 1968 with a chain reaction of youth-driven street protests and occupations: Paris, London, New York, Rom…

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Listen Now: American Scandal | The West Memphis Three 4:52

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On May 5, 1993, three 8-year-old boys were brutally murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas. The tiny local police department launches an investigation but finds little physical evidence to lead them to a suspect. Eventually, outside pressure pushes them to charge someone with the killings, whether or not the evidence supports their conclusions. America…

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The New Left – Part One – Generation Next 1:05:04

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Welcome back to Origin Story season eight: The Story of Socialism. This time, we’re explaining the New Left, the messy constellation of ideas and movements that came out of the discrediting of Soviet communism 70 years ago and made the left what it is today. The big bang was 1956. Nikita Khrushchev’s secret speech made Stalin’s crimes undeniable wh…

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Origin Story – Live at the Tabernacle, 13th Nov 2025 2:02:46

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This week’s episode is an edited version of Origin Story Live at the Tabernacle in London on Thursday 13 November. The theme is political insurgents: the politicians and thinkers who are reshaping politics in 2025. In part one we profile two of the most significant intellectuals on the radical right. The Cambridge academic James Orr is senior advis…

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The Labour Party – Part Three – One Battle After Another 1:34:05

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Welcome to the third and final part of the story of the Labour Party, from Keir Hardie to Keir Starmer. Margaret Thatcher’s first election victory in 1979 initiates Labour’s longest period in opposition and its deepest identity crisis: Bennites to the left, SDP defectors to the right. After Michael Foot leads Labour to its worst vote share since 19…

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The Labour Party – Part Two – War and Peace 1:36:23

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Welcome back to Origin Story season eight: The Story of Socialism. This week, we continue the tale of the UK Labour Party, from Keir Hardie to Keir Starmer. It’s 1940 and Clement Attlee’s Labour has joined the wartime coalition with Winston Churchill’s Tories, making it seem for the first time like a natural party of government and paving the way f…

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The Labour Party – Part One – A Very British Socialism 1:31:57

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Welcome back to Origin Story season eight: The Story of Socialism. This week, in the year of its 125th anniversary, we begin the tale of the UK Labour Party, from Keir Hardie to Keir Starmer. “The British Labour Party is an expression of the Socialist movement adapted to British conditions,” wrote Clement Attlee. But British socialism meant differe…

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Halloween Fun with Jennifer Lee | Stephen King’s ‘SALEM’S LOT 1:09:18

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We wrap up our annual Halloween podcasts with Jennifer Lee and King’s second book . . . and pledge to do a follow up on the film adaptations in December.Kirjoittanut Michael Henry Harris

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Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin – Part Three – Terror 1:36:07

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• See Origin Story LIVE at The Tabernacle on Thur Nov 13. ⁠Buy tickets here. Welcome to the third and final part of the story of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin: Terror. It’s 1929 and the age of Stalin has begun. His mission to revolutionise the Soviet economy succeeds at the price of millions of lives: kulaks are murdered en masse while Ukrainians starv…

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Halloween Fun with Matt and Stan | Damien: Omen 2 1:41:11

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Next week: ‘SALEM’S LOT by Stephen King with Jennifer Lee.Kirjoittanut Michael Henry Harris

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Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin – Part Two – Power 1:31:41

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• See Origin Story LIVE at The Tabernacle, London on Thur Nov 13. ⁠Buy tickets here. Welcome back to Origin Story: The Story of Socialism as we resume the story of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin in part two: Power. It’s 1917. The Bolsheviks have seized control of Russia, the world’s first socialist state, but they’re a small party in a very big country,…

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Halloween Fun with Matt and Stan | SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES 1:27:53

2M ago1:27:53

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Tons of spoilers and laughter ahead. Next week: THE OMEN II.Kirjoittanut Michael Henry Harris

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Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin – Part One – Revolution 1:31:04

2M ago1:31:04

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• See Origin Story LIVE at The Tabernacle, London on Thur 13 Nov. ⁠Buy tickets here. Welcome to Origin Story. The Story of Socialism is our first ever themed season and now we begin our first ever three-part story because there’s just so much to tell: Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin. Vladimir Lenin’s political journey begins in 1887 when he’s 17 and his old…

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Halloween Fun with Matt and Stan | CHILDREN OF THE CORN 1:04:30

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Next week: SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES And then: THE OMEN IIKirjoittanut Michael Henry Harris

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Karl Marx – Part Two – The Father 1:23:00

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Welcome back to Season Eight: The Story of Socialism as we conclude the story of Karl Marx and the birth of Marxism. It’s 1849. In the wake of the failed revolutions in Europe, Marx and his wife Jenny arrive in London for a fresh start. But his magnum opus, Capital, is a long time coming due to chronic illness, the loss of three children and recurr…

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Karl Marx – Part One – The Fighter 1:28:47

2M ago1:28:47

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A spectre is haunting Origin Story — the spectre of Karl Marx. Welcome back to season eight: The Story of Socialism. Last week, we explored the various socialisms that were exciting Europe when Marx was a young man. Now we turn to the man himself, and his close friend and ally Friedrich Engels. The landslide winner of an In Our Time poll to choose …

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Best Selling Author DAVID HESKA WANBLI WEIDEN | GOODFELLAS 1:43:53

2M ago1:43:53

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David’s Website David’s Instagram David on other podcasts: Go Between the Covers Between the Covers Youtube Scared Lit – Less Ramona Ausubel Larissa Fasthorse SAVE THE CAT Tommy Orange Craig Johnson David’s Other Writing on the Webpage David and Tommy Interview GOODFELLAS BILLY JACK TAMPOPO – food movie. RAMEN! The Owl Farm Gimme Shelter Tonight’s …

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The Birth of Socialism – A Better World is Possible 1:32:25

2M ago1:32:25

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Welcome to season eight of Origin Story. This season we’re trying something different: one big narrative across multiple topics. It’s the story of socialism, from the earliest blueprints to the present day, Lenin to Labour, Marx to Mao, Gramsci to Gorbachev and Proudhon to Piketty. We’re talking about the evolution of a powerful idea in all its man…

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The British Chinese – Hidden generations 1:04:52

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British Chinese compose nearly one per cent of the British population, but they are culturally and politically ignored with precious little representation in politics or television. In this Origin Story special edition, we trace the history of the British Chinese community, from the days of Roman Britain to the present day. Along the way, we see th…

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Rivers of Blood – How Enoch Powell poisoned Britain 1:25:41

4M ago1:25:41

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Welcome back to Origin Story. In this bonus episode Dorian tells the unnervingly relevant story of Enoch Powell’s so-called “Rivers of Blood” speech. On 20 April 1968, the Conservative MP for Wolverhampton South West delivered probably the most explosive political speech in British peacetime history, bringing into the mainstream opinions previously…

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Shostakovich and Stalin – The Composer and the Dictator 55:28

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Welcome back to Origin Story. This bonus episode is something a bit different: a story about the power of music and the music of power. Tortured genius? Stalinist stooge? Undercover dissident? Perhaps no musician better represents the competing demands of art and politics than Dmitri Shostakovich, who died 50 years ago this week. He has been called…

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ICE – How Trump built an American Gestapo 54:46

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What is ICE? Who are these men we see gathered around students and politicians in the US, with their faces covered, wearing unmarked clothing, often throwing people into unmarked cars? Where did this organisation originate? How did it turn into what looks like a militia? And where will its loyalties lie in future if there is a threat to Trump's hol…

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Martin Luther King Jr. – Part Two – Owning the dream 1:23:10

6M ago1:23:10

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Welcome to the grand finale of Origin Story season seven, as we conclude the remarkable story of Martin Luther King Jr. With the march from Selma to Montgomery and the passing of the Voting Rights Act, 1965 marked the zenith of the civil rights movement as a unified, effective force under King’s leadership. The decade-long fight to desegregate the …

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Martin Luther King Jr. – Part One – Eyes on the Prize 1:32:22

6M ago1:32:22

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Welcome to the final topic of Origin Story season seven: the extraordinary life and legacy of Dr Martin Luther King. By Origin Story standards, there’s an unusual moral clarity to this story — a genuinely good man up against genuine horrors — but that doesn’t make it a straightforward one. The mainstream caricature of King as a kindly, colour-blind…

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Growth – GDP is the Magic Number 1:29:02

6M ago1:29:02

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Welcome back to Origin Story, where we’re discussing the concept of economic growth. Growth is the world’s great obsession. When it’s booming, it makes everything easier. When it stagnates or goes into reverse, everybody panics. But what exactly is it, what drives it and what does it cost us? For most of human history economic growth didn’t exist. …

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Mars – The Next Frontier? 1:24:28

7M ago1:24:28

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Welcome to the first ever episode of Origin Story dedicated to a planet. We’re taking a long look at the place of Mars in the popular imagination, from ancient civilisations to fin de siècle Mars mania to the current techbro obsession with exploration and colonisation. Is there life on Mars? Let’s find out. The ancients associated the red planet wi…

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Appeasement – Part Two – Betrayal 1:25:01

7M ago1:25:01

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Welcome back to Origin Story and join us as we wrap up the story of appeasement. It’s 1938. After the Anschluss, Hitler makes his bid for the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia and tests the moral and strategic arguments for appeasement to breaking point. While Chamberlain insists it would be madness to go to war over “a quarrel in a faraway coun…

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Appeasement – Part One – The Bitter Cup 1:25:41

7M ago1:25:41

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Welcome back to Origin Story. This week we turn to the story of the appeasement of Hitler’s Germany during the 1930s. With appeasement in the news again in relation to Ukraine, understanding the mistakes of 90 years ago is urgently necessary. How did noble impulses like optimism, fairness and the desire for peace lead to history’s most infamous for…

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Origin Story Live at 21 Soho – Grand Theft America 1:34:59

7M ago1:34:59

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We had a very good time at Origin Story Live at 21 Soho on Wednesday night. Thanks to everyone who showed up or watched the livestream. The theme of the show is the American inferno and how to think about it. In part one, Normalisation, we use British responses to Hitler in the 1930s to explain how normality bias prevents much of the media from fac…

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Partition – Part Two – Dividing Lines 1:15:30

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Welcome back to Origin Story, where we’re concluding the story of the partition of India and Pakistan. We resume in March 1947 with the arrival of the last viceroy of the Raj, Lord Mountbatten, and his formidable wife Edwina. They find a country on the precipice of civil war, with the Punjab consumed by ethnic violence between Hindus, Muslims and S…

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Partition – Part One – Before Midnight 1:15:53

8M ago1:15:53

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Welcome back to Origin Story. This week we begin the immense story of the partition of India and Pakistan at midnight on 14-15 August 1947. In a stroke, 340 million people gained independence from the British Empire but a day of celebration came in the midst of horrific ethnic violence which left between 1 and 2 million people dead and more than 15…

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Thatcherism – Part Two – Imperial phase 1:32:49

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In part two of Thatcherism, Margaret Thatcher has survived a grim first term and her political and economic bets have paid off. She’s ready to wage war on everything she considers socialism: trade unions, local councils, nationalised industries, the BBC, you name it. The Britain she leads is wealthier and more dynamic yet more divided and unequal —…

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Thatcherism – Part One – Birth of a Notion 1:30:30

8M ago1:30:30

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Hello and welcome to season seven of Origin Story, where Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey continue to explore the misunderstood ideas and people that shape our politics today. We hope you’ve enjoyed all the bonus episodes. We’re starting with a topic that’s been on our shortlist since the very beginning, and it’s a big one: Thatcherism. By that we mean …

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Episode 8: The Terminator 27:47

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Elon Musk has claimed that AI is humanity’s “biggest existential threat.” Paradoxically, Musk is also working to create artificial intelligence. Why? Jill Lepore tours through a century of imagined robot rebellions, and argues that these stories are never only about robots. So what’s Elon Musk really afraid of when he wrings his hands over AI? In t…

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Episode 7: Body Snatchers 27:24

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In 2022, Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, and renamed it X. When asked why he wanted to own the social media network, Musk talked a lot about something he called the “woke mind virus.” Where does the idea of a mind virus come from? Jill Lepore looks to Cold War science fiction and the recently uncovered writings of Elon Musk’s grandfather …

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Episode 6: Baby X 27:52

9M ago27:52

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The science fiction that Silicon Valley techno-billionaires like Elon Musk adore concerns gleaming futures in which fantastically powerful, immensely rich men colonize other planets. In this episode, Jill Lepore looks at some of the science fiction that’s usually left out of this vision — science fiction by and about women. See omnystudio.com/liste…

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Episode 5: The Dogefather 27:53

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In 2021, Elon Musk started calling himself The Dogefather to signal his support for Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency based on a joke meme about a dog. That dog is now wagging the tail of the world’s economy. In this episode, Jill Lepore looks at Silicon Valley's cryptocurrency craze through the lens of some very old science fiction. Like everything else …

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Episode 4: Iron Man 27:57

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In 2008 Tesla Motors launched its first car, the completely electric Roadster. Tesla was a great story — something genuinely new, an engineering marvel. Musk became a media darling, on the cover of countless magazines under headlines like ‘Elon Musk, AKA Tony Stark, Wants to Save the World’. Within the logic of Muskism, talking about saving the wor…

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Episode 3: Planet B 28:26

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Elon Musk is a rocket man. He wants humans to become ‘a multi-planetary species’ and talks about establishing human settlements on Mars. As President Trump talks up the Mars program while dismantling aid initiatives around the globe, Jill Lepore traces how Silicon Valley's existential catastrophism led to Musk’s extraterrestrial vision of capitalis…

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Episode 2: Dimension X 28:00

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Elon Musk is reinventing himself as a kingmaker for the United States and the world. He wants to shape the future. But in this episode, Jill Lepore goes back to his past — to his childhood, his strange family history, and his fascination with Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Episode 1: The Dark Knight 28:01

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Elon Musk’s origin story keeps changing. First, he was Tony Stark, or Iron Man. Not too long ago, he compared himself to Batman. Arguments started online over whether or not Musk is a real-life Bruce Wayne. In this episode, Jill Lepore looks at the original ‘Caped Crusader’, created back in 1939. Batman’s origin story is bound up with fascism. And …

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Kemi Badenoch – Identity crisis 1:12:49

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Season seven is almost upon us and we’ll be starting with an epic two-parter on Thatcherism, so consider this bonus episode a warm-up. We’re unravelling the unusual story of Kemi Badenoch and what her vexed leadership says about the state of the Conservative Party. As soon as Badenoch became an MP in 2017, she was tipped for big things: a black wom…

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Suehyla El-Attar Young | Amadeus – Director’s Cut 1:37:55

9M ago1:37:55

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Suehyla’s Instagram Podcasts Featuring Suehyla: The Artist Inclusive Podcast How Do You Do? (audiobooks) VENUS – Launchpad Series Steve Yockey Suehyla’s IMDB Smite Amadeus IMDB Peter Shaffer Milos Forman Tom Hulce F. Murray Abraham Cynthia Nixon A Christmas Carol – Guy Pearce Elizabeth Gilbert – Your Creative Muse…

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Repost from The Owls on Culture Podcast | Oscar Predictions 2025 1:38:54

9M ago1:38:54

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And also whom we think deserves to win. Or maybe whom we want to win. Sometimes both.Kirjoittanut Michael Henry Harris

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The Myth of Cultural Marxism – Anatomy of a conspiracy theory 59:56

10M ago59:56

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Welcome to another Origin Story bonus episode. This week we’re discussing the conspiracy theory of Cultural Marxism. In the 1990s, cultural conservatives in America began pinning everything they hated, from feminism and gender studies departments to pop music and horror movies, on the legacy of the Frankfurt School, a group of German intellectuals …

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Introducing X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story 2:01

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The story of Elon Musk, the way it's usually told, makes him sound like a fictional character, a comic-book superhero - or supervillain. He's the world's richest man, and now an adviser to the US President. He uses X - his social media platform - to berate politicians he doesn't agree with around the world. He plans to put chips in people's brains,…

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Doctor Who – The Regeneration Game 1:01:23

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Travel into the furthest reaches of space and time as we investigate the history of Doctor Who. From its inception in 1963, as a longshot gamble to fill a hole in the teatime schedule, to its current status as British television’s biggest international drama, we track the story of the eccentric alien with two hearts and what the Doctor’s adventures…

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Trump’s inauguration: Can we call it fascism yet? – Plus exclusive audiobook excerpt 40:15

11M ago40:15

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Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesKirjoittanut Podmasters

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Elon Musk and the Death of Twitter 59:36

11M ago59:36

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Happy new year, Origin Story listeners. We’ll be releasing regular bonus episodes between now and the launch of season seven in April and we’re kicking off with a sequel to the finale of season three: Elon Musk and the Death of Twitter. With jaw-dropping behind-the-scenes information from two recent books, Dorian explains how and why the richest ma…

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Repost from the Owls on Culture Podcast | Our Favorite Movies from 2024! 4:12:48

11M ago4:12:48

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In what has become one of my favorite traditions of the holiday season, Hank and I debate, compromise, and form our collective top ten list of favorite movies from 2024.Kirjoittanut Michael Henry Harris

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