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Inheritance of Silence is a cinematic true story about the long shadow of trauma and the quiet strength it takes to face it. When Sean was just four years old, his father committed a brutal murder and vanished from his life. No explanations. No goodbyes. Just silence. Now, decades later, he’s finally breaking that silence. Blending documentary storytelling with first-person narration, real interviews, archival audio, and haunting sound design, this serialized podcast uncovers the ripple effects of one night of violence—and how the trauma of fatherlessness shapes identity across a lifetime....

Inheritance charts the forgotten life of Mary Grosvenor, born in London during the Great Plague of 1665, and the land that she inherited as a baby. This estate would determine the course of her tragic life. Hollis restores this history of child brides, mad heiresses, religious controversy and shady dealing. The drama culminated in a court case that determined not just the state of Mary’s legacy but the future of London itself. Today, Mary’s inheritance is some of the most valuable real estate in the world; and her family, the Dukes of Westminster.

Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of...

New attention from historians and journalists is raising pointed questions about the founding period: was the American revolution waged to preserve slavery, and was the Constitution a pact with slavery or a landmark in the antislavery movement? We have long needed a history of the founding that fully includes Black Americans in the Revolutionary protests, the war, and the debates over slavery and freedom that followed. We now have that history in Edward J. Larson's insightful synthesis of the founding.

July 8, 1921. Ireland. A British Officer is shot dead on a remote hillside south of Dublin. November 22, 2015. United Kingdom. Former police detective Jayne Sinclair, now working as a genealogical investigator, receives a phone call from an adopted American billionaire asking her to discover the identity of his real father. How are the two events linked? Jayne Sinclair has only three clues to help her: a photocopied birth certificate, a stolen book, and an old photograph.

The Inheritance Project looks to the past to find lessons for the future. Each episode I talk to a leader of a previous generation to better understand the struggles and causes they devoted their lives to. Hoping to better understand all that has been passed down to us.

An epic journey to uncover a Holocaust inheritance leads relentlessly to discovering a Nakba inheritance: two catastrophes that are very different, but very connected. Can they both be heard and understood? With personal testimony, letters and memories by those who survived and those who did not, this challenging audio series is dramatised and narrated by broadcaster Mike Joseph. Read more at https://mikejoseph.wales/keys and hear all episodes at https://balfourproject.org/keys or wherever you get your podcasts.