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DNA science. Artificial intelligence. Smartphones and 3D printers. Science and technology have transformed the world we live in. But how did we get here? It wasn’t by accident. Well, sometimes it was. It was also the result of hard work, teamwork, and competition. And incredibly surprising moments.Hosted by bestselling author Steven Johnson (“How We Got To Now”), American Innovations uses immersive scenes to tell the stories of the scientists, engineers, and ordinary people behind the greatest discoveries of the past century.Listen to American Innovations on the Wondery App or wherever ...

The first woman on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List was a Black Panther. The richest person of all time, an African king, gave away so much gold that it caused Cairo's economy to crash. A 109 year old Black woman fights for reparations for her neighborhood that was burned to the ground when she was a child. On Wondery’s history series Black History, For Real, hosts Franchesca Ramsey and Conscious Lee go beyond the stories you already know to drop you right in the mix. It’s a no-nonsense, unwhitewashed account of history’s most overlooked moments, with a mix of narrative ...

These are stories you were never meant to hear. The invisible but vital work of the world’s intelligence services: secret operatives playing to very different rules. The Spy Who, hosted by Indira Varma and Raza Jaffrey, takes you deep inside that shadow world to meet spies who risked everything in the national interest – or, sometimes, their own.Listen to The Spy Who on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. You can binge episodes early and ad-free on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting wondery.com/links/...

Hollywood and Crime is a ground-breaking true crime series about the most infamous murders in Tinseltown history. In The Black Dahlia Serial Killers, host Tracy Pattin investigates the sensational unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short. Known as the Black Dahlia, Short was a star-struck young woman whose body was found completely severed at the waist in January 1947. Many remember her tragic story, yet few know that more than a dozen other women died in similar circumstances around that same time. In Young Charlie, internationally acclaimed actor Stephen Lang (Avatar, Don’t Breathe) ...

Season 2 - Confronting: Columbine The events of April 20th, 1999 shaped our nation and altered the American narrative. One of America’s deadliest school shootings took place in a small town in Colorado, leaving thirteen dead and another twenty-one severely injured. And it was all broadcast over national tv for the nation to see. The second season of Confronting takes on one of the most prolific tragedies in American history: the Columbine High School massacre. It was a devastating example of how easily a place of learning, familiarity and peace can descend into a war zone of chaos in a ...

The fall of the Roman Empire has been studied for years, but genetics, climate science, forensic science, network models, and globalization studies have reshaped our understanding of one of the most important events in human history. PhD historian and specialist Patrick Wyman brings the cutting edge of history to listeners in plain, relatable English.

You can binge all episodes of Sports Wars exclusively and ad-free on Wondery+. Find Wondery+ in the Wondery App or on Apple Podcasts.Sports rivalries can fuel fans and athletes to fight and argue for years. But what’s the real story behind these epic battles?From Wondery, the company behind “Business Wars”, “Gladiator” and “The Lead” comes SPORTS WARS, a new series that offers an immersive look at some of the greatest athletic rivalries of all time: two superpower nations facing off in the Miracle on Ice. The battle for the starting quarterback gig in Green Bay between Brett ...

From Wondery and Goalhanger Podcasts, Afua Hirsch and Peter Frankopan tell the wild stories of some of the most extraordinary men and women ever to have lived – and ask whether they have the rep they deserve. Should Nina Simone’s role in the civil rights movement be more celebrated than it is? When you find out what Picasso got up to in his studio, can you still admire his art? Was Napoleon a hero or a tyrant - or both? (And, while we’re at it, was he even short?) Legacy is the show that looks at big lives from the perspective of now – and doesn’t always like what it sees.Listen to ...

The courtroom can be a battlefield over money, people’s rights, and even their lives. For some cases, the consequences can affect us long after the verdict is read.Based on extensive interviews and court transcripts, Wondery’s new podcast LEGAL WARS puts you inside the jury box of some of the most famous court cases in American history, including Hulk Hogan’s courtroom wrestling match with Gawker, the battle for free speech on the internet, and the Rodney King trial that set off the LA Riots. Host Hill Harper, actor and Harvard Law School graduate, brings you the drama, the ...

As our society debates where policing is going, Empire City will tell you where the police came from. From Peabody award-winning host Chenjerai Kumanyika, Empire City digs into the origin story of the world’s largest police force: the NYPD. Chenjerai takes listeners on a journey from narratives of Black abolitionists fighting slave patrols, to the story of two rival police forces duking it out at City Hall, to the origins of the true crime genre. Creators: Chenjerai Kumanyika, Crooked Media, Wondery, and PushBlack

Did one man’s friendship with a dolphin go way – way – too far? It’s 1987 and the British seaside town of Amble has seen much better days. So when a wild bottlenose dolphin nicknamed Freddie appears in the harbour, it feels like a miracle. Everyone wants to swim with him. But Freddie chooses one person above all others: Alan Cooper, a dedicated animal rights activist committed to freeing captive dolphins. Then Alan’s friendship with Freddie is turned against him and a devastating accusation spirals out of control.Binge all episodes of Hooked on Freddie exclusively and ad-free by ...

Der Journalist Joe Nocera kauft in den Hamptons ein Sommerhaus und lernt bald seinen exzentrischen Nachbarn Dr. Isaac “Ike” Herschkopf kennen. Der ist Promi-Therapeut in Manhattan und veranstaltet rauschende Sommerfeste mit berühmten Gästen. Doch plötzlich lässt er sich nicht mehr sehen. Und Joe Nocera erfährt bei seinen Recherchen, dass in dem Haus nichts so war, wie es den Anschein hatte. Nach „Kampf der Unternehmen“ und „Dr. Tod“ jetzt die neue Serie, präsentiert zusammen von Wondery und Bloomberg, über Macht, Kontrolle und die jahrzehntelange Suche nach Hilfe bei der ...

In 1973 Hell came home and invaded the body of a young girl. This is the story of a movie and its makers. It's a tale of dark and light, of loss and love. A story of faith and fury, of causes and curses, of horrors real and imagined, of unbridled ego and brute force filmmaking. It's the movie critics called "religious pornography" and "occultist claptrap." The movie that left audiences...hysterical. Decades later, it remains perhaps the most frightening movie we will ever see. From Wondery, this is a seven-part deep dive inspired by the story behind an unforgettable, classic movie. This is......

From the creators of Inside Psycho and Inside the Exorcist comes a new story about a classic movie and its inspirations. A tale of a modest thriller that became an ordeal and then a disaster and then a phenomenon and then a classic. A story of one man, a fresh-faced, inexperienced director who nearly wrecked his promising career and became the most important filmmaker of our era. This is Inside JAWS.Binge all episodes of Inside Jaws exclusively and ad-free by joining Wondery+ in Wondery App or on Apple Podcasts. Start your free trial by visiting wondery.com/links/inside-jaws/ now.

Everywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countries, how we pray, and how we fight. They determine what money we spend and and how we earn it at work, what language we speak, and how we raise our children. In Tides of History, we prove that the key to understanding our modern world is in our past. 

El vecino del periodista veterano Joe Nocera en los Hamptons era un terapeuta llamado Ike. Ike tenía entre sus pacientes a celebridades y la élite de Manhattan. Organizaba fiestas repletas de estrellas en su excéntrica casa de verano. Pero un día, Joe descubrió que Ike se había ido y todo lo que pensaba que sabía sobre su vecino, y la casa de al lado, estaba equivocado. De Wondery, la compañía detrás de “Dr. Muerte: El Hombre Milagroso” y “Guerra de Negocios”, y Bloomberg, "El psiquiatra de al lado" es una historia sobre poder, control y acudir a la persona equivocada en ...

Silvio Berlusconi é um magnata multimilionário que virou de cabeça para baixo a política na Itália e hipnotizou o país inteiro. Ele foi o primeiro-ministro que permaneceu no cargo por mais tempo em um dos países mais ricos do mundo, até ser derrubado por três mulheres poderosas – e duas palavras: “Bunga Bunga”. Uma produção da Wondery, criadora de “Dr.Morte”, “O Psiquiatra ao Lado” e “Guerras Comerciais”, e apresentada por Mônica Iozzi, “Bunga Bunga” é uma série em oito episódios sobre a incrível ascensão e queda de Silvio Berlusconi – contada com a ...

A deep dive into the mysterious and peculiar happenings that occurred during the filming of the legendary film Psycho. Mark Ramsey Media and Wondery create a magical mix of fact and fiction which transports you into the world of Hitchcock. Psycho is among the greatest thrillers in movie history--and it nearly didn't happen!Listen to Inside Psycho on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. You can binge all episodes ad-free on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App or on Apple Podcasts. Start your free trial by visiting wondery.com/shows/inside-psycho/ now.

From the creators of Inside Psycho, Inside the Exorcist, and Inside Jaws, comes a new immersive audio biopic about the making of the original 1977 Star Wars. It was a movie made on a shoestring and dumped into a handful of movie theaters. And then it changed the world. This is the story of George Lucas and his dream. We take you inside the stories of the people who struggled to make the original classic and the people who did their very best to stop it dead. Now playing in all galaxies.Binge all episodes of Inside Star Wars exclusively and ad-free by joining Wondery+ in Wondery App or on Apple...

Wenn wir wissen, was bisher geschah, nehmen wir intensiver wahr, was heute passiert und verstehen, was morgen kommen kann. In Was bisher geschah sprechen Geschichtsjournalist Joachim Telgenbüscher und Historiker Nils Minkmar über die Dramen, Triumphe, Ereignisse und Persönlichkeiten der Geschichte, die unsere Welt geprägt haben und bis heute beschäftigen. Von den politischen Intrigen im römischen Reich, über die Tricks fanatischer Sektenführer in der frühen Neuzeit, bis hin zum Umgang mit Extremisten und den Management-Skills großer Eroberer.Neue Folgen gibt es immer dienstags ...