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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Episoder(8442)

The Farm Boy Who Invented Television

The Farm Boy Who Invented Television

On July 3rd, 1957, a man introduced only as "Dr. X" stumped the celebrity panel of the CBS quiz show I've Got a Secret. His secret: "I invented electronic television." For giving the world the medium ...

10 Jun 28min

The False Face of Vitus Bering

The False Face of Vitus Bering

His name covers the map: the Bering Sea, the Bering Strait, a glacier, an island. But when forensic scientists exhumed his grave in 1991, the bones didn't match the famous portrait. The round face his...

10 Jun 19min

The Empty Safe of Thérèse Humbert

The Empty Safe of Thérèse Humbert

Paris, 1902. A court orders a legendary, heavily guarded safe cracked open, the safe that supposedly held millions in bearer bonds and had anchored two decades of borrowed fortunes. Inside: old newspa...

10 Jun 20min

The Dropout Who Invented the Microwave

The Dropout Who Invented the Microwave

The humming box in your kitchen owes its existence to a double orphan from rural Maine who left school at twelve to work in a spool mill. Percy Spencer taught himself electrical engineering to wire a ...

10 Jun 18min

The Deaf Teacher Who Invented Spaceflight

The Deaf Teacher Who Invented Spaceflight

In a drafty log house on the muddy outskirts of a Russian provincial town, a deaf, self-taught math teacher the locals dismissed as the town crank, famous for sailing his bicycle down dirt roads under...

10 Jun 46min

The Curse of the Brink s-Mat Gold

The Curse of the Brink s-Mat Gold

On a chilly Saturday morning in November 1983, six armed men broke into a Heathrow warehouse expecting one million pounds in Spanish pesetas. Instead they found 6,800 bars of pure gold, three tons of ...

10 Jun 18min

The Cult Leader Behind the Theorem

The Cult Leader Behind the Theorem

Think of Pythagoras and you picture the equation and a dusty chalkboard. But modern scholars believe the man himself probably never did significant mathematics in his life and almost certainly didn't ...

10 Jun 21min

The Clerk Who Shocked Cambridge Mathematics

The Clerk Who Shocked Cambridge Mathematics

In 1913, one of the world's leading mathematicians opened a nine-page letter from an unknown accounting clerk in Madras and initially suspected fraud, because the formulas inside seemed impossible. Th...

10 Jun 19min

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