Andrew Schulz: The Comic Who Rewrote Modern Fame
He bypassed the Hollywood gatekeepers entirely, self-released his comedy on YouTube, drove independent albums to number one on the Billboard charts, feuded with a Pulitzer-winning rapper, and somehow ...
23 Jun 17min
Arminius: The Roman Officer Who Broke an Empire
Three entire Roman legions march into a dark, muddy Germanic forest and simply vanish, annihilated from the inside by one of Rome's own most trusted officers. The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest is the...
23 Jun 22min
Beatrix Potter: The Secret Empire Behind Peter Rabbit
Picture the softest image you can imagine: a little bunny in a blue jacket radiating cozy Victorian innocence. Now shatter it. The woman behind Peter Rabbit was a secret code-writing teenager, a dismi...
23 Jun 20min
Benjamin Britten: The Outsider Who Conquered British Music
He was hailed alongside Mozart, celebrated by the establishment, and eventually handed a title by the Queen. Yet Benjamin Britten felt so alienated from his own society that he fled across the ocean, ...
23 Jun 20min
Bill Murray: The Star Who Refused to Play by the Rules
Imagine negotiating a major studio deal with no agent, no manager, just an unmonitored 1-800 voicemail you check whenever the mood strikes. That is how the movie Garfield got made. Bill Murray didn't ...
23 Jun 19min
Carol Burnett: Poverty, Power, and a Pay-It-Forward Promise
Fired on the spot as a teenage usherette for refusing to let a couple ruin the ending of a Hitchcock film, Carol Burnett later asked for her Hollywood Walk of Fame star to be placed on that exact spot...
23 Jun 20min
Mikhail Glinka: The Father of Russian Classical Music
Picture a fragile child locked in a single sweltering room kept at a constant 77 degrees, wrapped in furs and fed sweets like an antique doll. His only link to the outside world was sound: dissonant c...
23 Jun 23min
Kristen Wiig: How Aimless Wandering Built a Comedy Icon
One day away from starting a job drawing post-surgery bodies for a plastic surgery clinic, an art student wandered into a bookstore, talked to a psychic, and was told to abandon everything and move to...
23 Jun 19min
