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The KGB Spy Who Used a Dead Child’s Identity to Live in America for 20 Years | Jack Barsky (opens the original)
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Jack Barsky lived one of the most extraordinary double lives of the Cold War.Recruited and trained by the KGB, he was sent into the United States under an identity taken from a child who had died years earlier. For a decade, he operated as a Soviet agent while building what appeared to be an ordinary American life — a career, relationships and a family — all while Moscow believed he was working for them.In this conversation, Jack tells me how the KGB found and tested him, what spy training was r
Dunblane: Mick North on Sophie and the Fight That Changed Britain’s Gun Laws (opens the original)
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Thirty years after the Dunblane Primary School shooting, Mick North tells the deeply personal story of his five-year-old daughter Sophie North — and how unimaginable loss led him into a campaign that helped transform Britain’s gun laws.On 13 March 1996, Mick dropped Sophie off for what should have been an ordinary day at school. Hours later, he was among the parents waiting inside Dunblane Primary School for news of their children. Sixteen children and their teacher were killed.In this conversat
Her Father Was in Charge of Alcatraz the Night They Escaped — Did They Survive? (opens the original)
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On the night of June 11, 1962, Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin climbed out of their cells at Alcatraz and disappeared into San Francisco Bay. They were never seen again. More than six decades later, one question still refuses to go away: did they survive? In this episode of The Growth Time Machine, Daniel Curtis speaks with Jolene Babyak, Alcatraz historian and author, and someone with an extraordinary personal connection to the most famous prison escape in history. Jolene gre
My Father Helped Save 669 Children | Nick Winton on Sir Nicholas Winton (opens the original)
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Sir Nicholas Winton helped save 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War. His son, Nick Winton, grew up knowing almost nothing about it.In this episode of The Growth Time Machine, Daniel Curtis sits down with Nick for a deeply personal conversation about his father, one of the most remarkable rescue efforts of the twentieth century, and Nick’s own extraordinary life.In 1938, Nicholas Winton travelled to Prague as the situation in Czechoslovakia became inc
I Was the Voice of Siri: Susan Bennett on the Life She Didn't Plan (opens the original)
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Susan Bennett became the original voice of Siri—but nobody told her.For months, Susan sat in a recording studio reading thousands of strange words, phrases and sounds. She completed the job and moved on with her life, never imagining that those recordings would one day be heard on millions of iPhones around the world.Then someone contacted her and asked: “Isn’t that your voice?”Susan visited Apple’s website, listened to Siri and immediately knew the answer. It was her.In this fascinating convers
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