pplpod

pplpod is a podcast about people, places and lots of other stuff. Each episode takes a deep dive into the lives, choices, and legacies of fascinating figures from history, culture, music, and beyond. From icons who shaped entire generations to hidden stories that deserve the spotlight, pplpod brings you closer to the people behind the headlines and the legends.

Thoughtful, engaging, and story-driven, pplpod explores what makes these lives extraordinary—and what we can learn from them today.

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The legal architect behind the icon

The legal architect behind the icon

She tied for first in her class at Columbia Law, and a Supreme Court justice refused to even consider her for a clerkship because she was a woman. That lockout became the catalyst: barred from the cor...

10 Kesä 21min

The Lawgiver who Executed his Own Sons

The Lawgiver who Executed his Own Sons

September 1566, at the siege of Szigetvar: the most powerful man in the world dies in his imperial tent, and his inner circle hides it for 48 days, forging his handwriting, parading his doctor in dail...

10 Kesä 24min

The Juggling Genius Who Invented Bits

The Juggling Genius Who Invented Bits

1943, deep inside a classified Bell Labs facility: engineers race to perfect radar, Alan Turing paces the halls working on encrypted speech, and down the hushed corridor rolls a mathematician on a uni...

10 Kesä 49min

The industrial meatgrinder at Verdun

The industrial meatgrinder at Verdun

Ten million artillery shells pulverized the landscape until it ceased to resemble Earth: forests erased, hills reshaped, soil churned with metal and human remains. The Battle of Verdun, 302 days throu...

10 Kesä 14min

The Illiterate Miner Who Built the Railway

The Illiterate Miner Who Built the Railway

A room full of Royal Society elites in tailored coats faced a coal miner with a thick Northumberland accent who couldn't read his own name until age 18, and practically accused him of fraud, because t...

10 Kesä 25min

The Hidden Mathematician Behind the Eiffel Tower

The Hidden Mathematician Behind the Eiffel Tower

Her mathematics helped make the Eiffel Tower possible, yet when Gustave Eiffel engraved 72 names of great French scientists on its sides, hers was missing, left off because she was a woman. Her death ...

10 Kesä 21min

The real H.H. Holmes is scarier

The real H.H. Holmes is scarier

The Murder Castle, the trapdoors, the gas chambers, the basement crematorium built to devour tourists at the 1893 World's Fair: most of it is myth, invented by profit-hungry yellow journalism. The rea...

10 Kesä 24min

The Gulag Prisoner Who Launched Sputnik

The Gulag Prisoner Who Launched Sputnik

He led the highest-stakes technological race in human history, and his own government refused to let the world know his name. To the thousands working under him, he was simply "the Chief Designer." Se...

10 Kesä 22min

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