What It Was Like

What It Was Like

Conversations with people who have lived through extreme events. Some stories are dark and twisted, others are light and funny. In all cases, we get an intimate portrait of 'what it was like' to be there.

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Hosted by Julian Morgans

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I Traced a Mystery Stalker Back to eBay’s Corporate Headquarters

I Traced a Mystery Stalker Back to eBay’s Corporate Headquarters

In 2019, David and Ina Steiner began receiving mysterious packages at their Massachusetts home. Local police sergeant Jason Sutherland was called in to investigate, and eventually traced the harassmen...

15 Elo 44min

How a Bunch of Australian Teens Invented 'Urban Exploration'

How a Bunch of Australian Teens Invented 'Urban Exploration'

Today, "urbex" (urban exploration) is a global phenomenon with millions of videos online. But few people know it all traces back to a group of teenagers in Melbourne. In the mid-1980s, they founded th...

7 Elo 48min

The Day My Daughter Got Abducted (and How I Got Her Back)

The Day My Daughter Got Abducted (and How I Got Her Back)

In 2018, Brittany Todd was a mother of five living in South Carolina. Then one day she came home to find a stranger inside her house who beat her unconscious and abducted her four-year-old daughter. I...

2 Elo 45min

I Pulled the Largest Prison Break in UK History

I Pulled the Largest Prison Break in UK History

In 1983, 38 IRA prisoners escaped Northern Ireland's Maze Prison by hijacking a truck and driving through multiple security gates to freedom. Ringleader Gerry Kelly explains how they pulled off such a...

25 Heinä 37min

I Somehow Survived the Darkest Years of AIDS

I Somehow Survived the Darkest Years of AIDS

AIDS devastated America's gay communities through the 1980s. In major cities, up to 50% of gay men were living with the virus, with the median survival rate after diagnosis just 11 months. Mark S. Kin...

19 Heinä 1h 11min

The Discovery of the Ebola Virus

The Discovery of the Ebola Virus

In 1976, a mysterious illness started killing people in Central Africa. Virus expert Joseph McCormick was flown in to work out what it was and how it spread. This is how the world came to learn of a f...

12 Heinä 35min

How I Lost Everything to Leonardo DiCaprio

How I Lost Everything to Leonardo DiCaprio

In 1995, Dale Wheatley had just written and produced Don's Plum starring his friends Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire. The film was quickly snapped up for a 3-picture deal. But then Leo decided he ...

4 Heinä 55min

I Escaped an Abusive Polygamist Cult… and Became a Millionaire

I Escaped an Abusive Polygamist Cult… and Became a Millionaire

Pamela Jones was born into a fringe splinter group of Mormonism. By her early 30s she had nine children, while her husband had five other wives. But one day something inside her broke. In this ep, Pam...

27 Kesä 59min

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