Code Talkers: The Unbreakable Language Weapon of WWI and WWII
One of the most remarkable chapters of military history belongs to the Code Talkers, the Native American servicemen whose ancestral languages became an encryption system the enemy could never crack. T...
30 Jun 23min
Christine Granville: Britain's First Female Special Agent
This episode dives into the audacious life of Christina Skarbek, who operated as Christine Granville and became Britain's first female special agent of the Second World War, as well as its longest ser...
30 Jun 22min
The Highway of Tears: Decades of Loss on Canada's Highway 16
Along a 719-kilometer stretch of British Columbia's Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert, an unknown number of women have vanished or been murdered since 1969. This episode examines how ...
30 Jun 21min
Nick Leeson and the Collapse of Barings Bank
In 1995, a single 28-year-old trader brought down Barings Bank, the oldest merchant bank in the United Kingdom and the personal bank of the Queen. This episode unpacks how Nick Leeson, working from Si...
30 Jun 23min
Kamikaze: The Divine Wind That Stopped the Mongol Invasions
Long before World War II gave the word its modern meaning, kamikaze meant divine wind, the typhoons that twice destroyed the largest naval invasions in history. This episode journeys back to the 13th ...
30 Jun 18min
Oleg Gordievsky: The KGB Colonel Who Spied for Britain
This episode explores the extraordinary life of Oleg Gordievsky, the KGB colonel who served for over a decade as a double agent for British intelligence and helped avert a potential nuclear war. Born ...
30 Jun 23min
Lizzie Borden: The Truth Behind the Fall River Axe Murders
The nursery rhyme says Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks, but almost every detail of that famous chant is wrong. This episode strips away the folklore to examine the real 1892...
30 Jun 25min
Pets.com: How a Sock Puppet Burned Through Millions
Pets.com built one of the most recognizable brands of the dot-com era, complete with a Super Bowl ad, a Macy's parade balloon, and a beloved sock puppet mascot, then collapsed in roughly 24 months. Th...
30 Jun 22min
