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The War Zone Journalist Who Exposed The Global Mafia | Misha Glenny (opens the original)
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Misha Glenny on war zones, McMafia, and why this is the time of monsters. Episode Overview In 1994, Misha Glenny drove across Sarajevo Airport under sniper fire. A bullet entered his car, passed through the drive shaft, and exited the other side. He didn't panic. He traced the bullet's path with the detached curiosity of someone who had been doing this for years. Glenny made his name covering the fall of communism and the Yugoslav Wars for the Guardian and the BBC, then spent years tracing the g
Vertical Drama's Dirty Secrets | Thalia Kent Egan (opens the original)
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Thalia Kent Egan on vertical drama, AI theft, and why filmmaking shouldn't be brutal. Episode Overview Thalia Kent Egan was commissioned to write a 90-page vertical drama script. She was told she would direct it, that the company wanted bold storytelling, real actors, heartbeat moments. Then they went quiet. When she followed up, they replied to say they had already released it as an AI-generated project using her script without telling her. Thalia studied languages at Oxford, did a directing ma
No Such Thing as Bad Bacteria? A Microbiologist Explains | Dr Gab Astorga (opens the original)
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Dr. Gab Astorga on microbial genomics, hiding the vegetables, and why science is not finished until it's communicated. Episode Overview Dr. Gab Astorga opens with the story of how tuberculosis invented the cowboy hat, which led to American culture, which led to Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter. It is exactly who he is and exactly what this conversation delivers for the next 40 minutes. Gab grew up in the Philippines, moved to the UK at two, spent his childhood unable to communicate, hid in libraries and
Why The 1970s Paranormal Star Gave It All Up To Become A Healer | Matthew Manning (opens the original)
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Matthew Manning on poltergeists, laboratory healing, and why he gave up fame at the height of it. Episode Overview When Matthew Manning was 11, objects began moving around his Cambridge home. His father, an architect, ruled out every logical explanation one by one. The police sergeant he reported it to turned out to have a personal passion for ghost hunting and knew exactly who to call: a professor of genetics at Trinity College, Cambridge, who lived five miles away and was the world's leading e
She Endured Eight Years of Coercive Control. Here's How She Wrote Her Way Out | Ros Barber (opens the original)
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Summary Ros Barber on coercive control, the Shakespeare authorship question, and why writing is a survival mechanism. Episode Overview Ros Barber was six months pregnant when she learned the insurance software her husband had been contracted to deliver didn't exist. She stayed up 36 hours, learned C++ from scratch, delivered the system, went into premature labor, and came home from the hospital to make the client's tweaks while her baby was still in an incubator. Her husband watched movies on th
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