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Patti Eddington always knew she was adopted, and her beloved parents seemed amenable enough to questions—but she never wanted to hurt them by expressing curiosity, so she didn't. The story of her mother cutting off and dying her hair when she was a toddler? She thought it was eccentric and funny, nothing more. When she discovered at fifteen that her birthday wasn't actually her birthday? She believed it when her mother said she'd changed it to protect her from the "nosy old biddies" who might try to discover her identity.

Flake, the legendary keyboardist for the German band Rammstein, takes listeners on a journey of what it is to be a touring musician. The excitement, the boredom, the moments that will be remembered and those that are forgotten. It's the World's Birthday Today is a strange and moody book about life on the road.

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Richard hits the big 4-0 and spends his birthday in the British Musuem, harassing waiters and lamenting his demise into old age. An hilarous episode from Richard's new book How Not to Grow Up.

SOON TO BE A TV SERIES WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ANDREW HAIGH New York Times Book Critics Favorite Book of the Year · Washington Post Notable Book of the Year “It’s all here: the grade school Walt Disney and Dr. Seuss; the adolescent acid trips; the fondness for Post-it notes and flying...

Some of you may know Alix Summers from her previous podcast series, All Woman, some of you may not. This podcast is incredibly different. In 2019 Alix Summers spent time interviewing a woman called Josie Fair for what she thought was going to be a light-hearted podcast on the theme of being birthday twins. As you will all know by now, that project was shelved abruptly as real life collided with the podcast and things turned very, very dark. It’s taken months for Alix to feel ready to revisit the podcast and its aftermath, but she’s ready now.This is Hi! I’m Your Birthday Twin. #...

Honoring the bestseller The Secret Language of Birthdays written in 1994, this podcast introduces personality profiles as written by Gary Goldschneider in his bestseller. Gary Goldschneider’s theory of Personology is a wholly unique approach to personality based on the day of birth. Gary’s Goldschneider’s groundbraking theory of personology posits that astrology, history and psychology are related to the congruence of three cycles: the astrological zodiac, the earth’s rotation around the sun as represented by the seasons of the year and the typical path of a human life. Gary’s ...

Acclaimed journalist Simon Shuster gives us the first inside account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the perspective of President Volodymyr Zelensky and his team, who granted him unprecedented access. Time correspondent Simon Shuster chronicles the life and wartime leadership of...

A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bank Wall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most powerful firms, Lazard Frères & Co. stood...

Collectively Speaking is a podcast where people passionate about Singapore, from all walks of life, gather to chat about our past, present & future across multiple themes pertinent to a thriving & harmonious society. Each episode features a panel of experts (in their own right) who open the curtain on a specific theme through multiple perspectives in an attempt to develop ideas about Singapore's future. Subscribe to the show, follow us on IG @thebirthdaycollective for occasional AMAs with panelists and FB (The Birthday Collective) to discover more content and opportunities the collective has ...

A collection of strange-but-true tales of wedding disasters recounts a groom's kidnapping by his irate parents, collapsing cakes, wedding-day hurricanes, celebrity nuptial nightmares, and more...