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Join Kunal Vijayakar and Cyrus Broacha as they unravel the enchanting stories of India's last century. From groundbreaking innovations to cricketing legends, A Century of Stories is a captivating blend of humour and history, inviting you to relive and discover the tales that shaped modern India.🎙️ Innovation & Achievement, hosted by Kunal Vijayakar 🎙️ Cricket and Beyond, hosted by Cyrus Broacha

'I would be most unhappy to think that any part of this memoir should be cut on grounds of 'decency', for those bits are essential....' So begins the lively true story of aristocrat and travel writer Roderic Fenwick Owen. Born in 1921, Fenwick Owen had an extraordinary life, which careered between some of the biggest moments in history and took him to the ends of the earth, meeting (and even living with) some of the 20th century's most well-known people along the way, including Eisenhower, Jackson Pollock, Christopher Lee and Sean Connery.

Read by the author, Tom Lathan. In Lost Wonders author and journalist Tom Lathan tells the powerful stories of ten species that have lived, died out and been declared extinct since the turn of the twenty-first century. Many scientists believe that we are currently living through the Earth’s...

How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? A primer for every Earth resident, by Harvard’s acclaimed geologist. “A sublime chronicle of our planet."" –Booklist, STARRED review Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering...

In this gripping narrative history, Al Roker from NBC’s Today and the Weather Channel vividly examines the deadliest natural disaster in American history—a haunting and inspiring tale of tragedy, heroism, and resilience that is full of lessons for today’s new age of extreme weather. On the...

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The 21st century sniper is a mature, intelligent shooter who leverages technology to his deadly advantage. He has spent thousands of hours honing his skills. He is a master of concealment in all environments, from the mountains of Afghanistan to the crowded streets of Iraq. He is trained in science and left alone to create the unique art of the kill. To the sniper, the battlefield is like a painter’s blank canvas. It is his job to simultaneously utilize tools, training, and creativity to deliver devastating psychological impact upon the battlefield. And it is he alone who is left with the intimacy of the kill.

“NFL’s Century Recap” is a National Football League podcast giving an overall outline of the 105 plus year history of the professional sport. My goal is to narrate all the important checkpoints in NFL history, from NFL championships pre- and post-Super Bowl era to all the iconic figures and moments in-between. Through interviews with NFL historians, and individuals who have over 50 combined years of experience working in the NFL as a broadcaster or media member, this podcast is an insightful way to learn the history of the NFL, breaking down the most impactful moments. This podcast will ...

In late May 1927 an inexperienced and unassuming 25-year-old Air Mail pilot from rural Minnesota stunned the world by making the first non-stop transatlantic flight. A spectacular feat of individual daring and collective technological accomplishment, Charles Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris ushered in America's age of commercial aviation.

From the former executive director of the Pro Football Hall of Fame comes a sweeping and lively history of the National Football League, timed to coincide with the NFL’s 100th anniversary season. “I can think of no one better qualified—or more enthusiastic—to chronicle the National...

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Join Kunal Vijayakar and Cyrus Broacha as they unravel the enchanting stories of India's last century. From groundbreaking innovations to cricketing legends, A Century of Stories is a captivating blend of humour and history, inviting you to relive and discover the tales that shaped modern India.🎙️ Innovation & Achievement, hosted by Kunal Vijayakar 🎙️ Cricket and Beyond, hosted by Cyrus Broacha

Pod Of The Century is IU Sports Media's 2022 World Cup podcast. This daily audio and video podcast features analysis and opinion of all the games in the Qatar World Cup, featuring appearances by a variety of members of the IU Sports Media program.

Few collegiate football programs have a history as fabled as BYU’s. The Cougars squared off in their first official football game – with brutal rules and no protective gear – on October 7th, 1922. They were obliterated. Fast forward 100 years, and BYU is set to enter the Big 12 Conference. Thanks to the legendary coaching of LaVell Edwards, the iconic athleticism of Jim McMahon, Robbie Bosco and hundreds more, and the ethics and sportsmanship inspired by LDS culture, BYU football is poised for new levels of greatness. Hear the trials and traditions of BYU football from the icons ...

Award-winning sports writer Jane Leavy follows her New York Times runaway bestseller Sandy Koufax with the definitive biography of baseball icon Mickey Mantle. The legendary Hall-of-Fame outfielder was a national hero during his record-setting career with the New York Yankees, but public...

The acclaimed, New York Times-bestselling chronicle of the discovery of the legendary lost civilization of the Maya In 1839, rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world’s most intrepid travelers. Seized by the...

Welcome to a podcast that celebrates the best of the world's most beautiful game, but only if it happened after the year 2000.21st Century Football: The Complete Guide is about Messi, Ronaldo, Zlatan but Pavel Nedved too. It's presented by Statman Dave, Stephen Tries, Will Brazier and Adam Brown. Find us on the Sport Social website: https://podcast.sport-social.co.uk/podcast/21st-century-football-the-complete-guide-so-far/

This is a podcast series on the history of cricket through the people and moments that made the game. Series 5 is a look at the national teams that could have been. Double Century is a team effort. Jarrod Kimber wrote, produced and narrated this series. Nick McCorriston is our producer (https://twitter.com/soundboy_audio).

Get set for the Ultimate Podcast as the Warrior is returning with new responses to the internet lies and we give you the full context of everything. The written responses Warrior published for his website’s blog years ago show his side of these situations, and we apply A.I. effects to those writings, so you now can hear his words in his real voice- that’s The Warrior Response.

A hard-hitting and powerful look at hockey's moment of reckoning in Canada, and the ways in which a game that is so universally loved has been rocked in recent years by court cases involving sexual assault and startling incidents of hazing and abuse throughout junior hockey. The allegations read...