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The .44 caliber killer who terrorized New York City through the summer of 1977. Six dead and seven wounded across a year of shootings. The letters to Jimmy Breslin at the Daily News. Sam Carr's dog. The parking ticket that broke the case. The Yonkers postal worker arrested August 10, 1977. The three-hundred-and-sixty-five-year sentence at Sullivan Correctional. Spike Lee's Summer of Sam. The Berkowitz born-again transformation. — a daily series with new episodes every day.

Lay back, relax, and learn. Your complete revision study guide to The Berlin Wall, designed for students who want to absorb the material without sitting at a desk. Every episode explores the key events, figures and themes you need to understand — narrated at a calm, unhurried pace. Perfect for revision, background listening, or building deep knowledge over time. Whether you're preparing for exams, catching up on missed lectures, or simply curious, press play, close your eyes, and learn.

The Harvard math prodigy who mailed bombs for seventeen years from a Montana cabin. Three dead, twenty-three wounded. The FBI's longest unsolved case until his brother David recognized the writing. The 35,000-word manifesto the New York Times and Washington Post published. Industrial Society and Its Future. The 1996 arrest at Great Falls. The plea to life without parole. The 2023 death in a federal medical prison. The one American serial bomber who lived inside a debate about technology. — a daily series with new episodes every day.

Winter Hill Gang boss, FBI informant, sixteen years on the FBI Most Wanted list. James Bulger's rise from South Boston. Brother Billy in the Massachusetts Senate. The corrupt FBI handler John Connolly. Nineteen murders. The tip-off and the flight in 1994. Santa Monica and Catherine Greig. The 2011 arrest. The trial in 2013. The 2018 death in West Virginia in a wheelchair, beaten by fellow inmates. The Departed. The Irish Mob and the federal betrayal at the center of Boston. — a daily series with new episodes every day.

Lay back, relax, and learn. Your complete revision study guide to World War I, designed for students who want to absorb the material without sitting at a desk. Every episode explores the key events, figures and themes you need to understand — narrated at a calm, unhurried pace. Perfect for revision, background listening, or building deep knowledge over time. Whether you're preparing for exams, catching up on missed lectures, or simply curious, press play, close your eyes, and learn.

The Sicilian immigrant who invented the modern American Mafia. Charles Lucky Luciano and the Castellammarese War. The 1931 hits that took out Masseria and Maranzano. The Commission. The five New York families organized under one governing body. Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel. Thomas Dewey's prosecution. The prison deal that helped the WWII Sicily landings. Deportation to Italy. The Havana Conference. The template every mob boss followed after. — a daily series with new episodes every day.

Black Thursday, Black Monday, Black Tuesday. October 1929. The margin calls. The bucket shops. Charles Merrill and the warnings. The Federal Reserve's contraction. The banks that failed. The Great Depression it triggered. Hoovervilles and the Dust Bowl. Roosevelt's New Deal. Glass-Steagall. The SEC. The lessons that had to be relearned in 2008. The eight-year climb back to 1929's peak. The moment American capitalism nearly died. — a daily series with new episodes every day.

The Anchorage handyman who buried murder kits across America over eleven years and traveled thousands of miles between kills. Samantha Koenig kidnapped from her coffee stand in February 2012. The Texas bank ATM footage. The Lufkin traffic stop that caught him. The forty-hour interviews. Bill and Lorraine Currier in Vermont. The other victims he described but never named. Suicide in an Anchorage cell in December 2012. The most methodical serial killer the FBI never fully mapped. — a daily series with new episodes every day.

The largest airship ever built. May 6, 1937 at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. Thirty-four seconds from the first flame to full destruction. Herbert Morrison's radio broadcast "Oh, the humanity." Thirty-six dead. The airship era over in one broadcast. The theories: hydrogen versus aluminum-doped skin, static electricity versus sabotage. The Nazi swastika on the tail fin. The end of a technology and the beginning of live media disaster coverage. — a daily series with new episodes every day.

Une série apaisante de récits pour le coucher qui emmène l'auditeur à travers les paysages, villages et lieux tranquilles de France. Chaque épisode explore une région différente — la Vallée de la Loire, la Provence, la Bretagne, la Normandie, l'Alsace, le Pays Basque, la Corse — avec une narration douce et lente qui décrit les rivières, les vieilles pierres, les marchés du matin, les vignobles au coucher du soleil, les églises de village, les brumes du matin sur les champs. Une invitation au sommeil à travers la beauté paisible de la France rurale.

The unsinkable ship that sank on her maiden voyage. Belfast to Southampton to New York. The Astors, the Guggenheims, the third-class Irish emigrants. Iceberg warnings ignored. The impact at 11:40 PM on April 14. Lifeboats launched half-full. The band that kept playing. The Californian ten miles away with radio silence. The Carpathia's rescue. Fifteen hundred dead. The 1985 discovery on the seafloor. The wreck being consumed today. History's most famous shipwreck. — a daily series with new episodes every day.

The murders that terrorized Northern California from 1968 to 1969. Lake Herman Road, Blue Rock Springs, Lake Berryessa, the taxi driver Paul Stine on Presidio Heights. The letters to the San Francisco Chronicle. The 340 cipher unsolved for 51 years until three amateurs cracked it in December 2020. Arthur Leigh Allen, Gary Francis Poste, and every name investigators have circled for six decades. The one case that will not close. — a daily series with new episodes every day.

The Seattle truck painter who murdered at least forty-nine women along the Green River and highways of Washington State between 1982 and 1998. The task force. The two-decade search. The 2001 DNA hit. The 2003 plea deal. The forty-eight-hour interviews. Life without parole. Every detail he described. The victims still unfound. The one prolific serial killer nobody has heard of the way we know Bundy. — a daily series with new episodes every day.

Fifty-one days outside Waco, Texas, in early 1993. David Koresh and Mount Carmel. The February 28 ATF raid and the four dead agents. The FBI negotiators. The tank assaults. The tear gas. April 19 and the fire that killed seventy-six people, including twenty-five children. The Ruby Ridge context. The rise of the militia movement. Timothy McVeigh two years later. Every question about what happened in that compound still contested. — a daily series with new episodes every day.

The five months in 1692 when a Massachusetts village hanged nineteen people, pressed one to death, and jailed hundreds more. Tituba, Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne. The afflicted girls led by Betty Parris and Abigail Williams. Spectral evidence. Cotton Mather and the ministers. Bridget Bishop first to hang. Rebecca Nurse and the recanting jury. Giles Corey and more weight. The colony's collapse into paranoia. The apologies and reversals. The template for every witch hunt in language since. — a daily series with new episodes every day.

The Brooklyn boy who ran Prohibition-era Chicago. The rise through Johnny Torrio's operation. The Hawthorne Hotel and Cicero. The St. Valentine's Day Massacre on North Clark Street in 1929. Eliot Ness and the Untouchables. The tax evasion trial that no gangster believed would work. Federal prison at Atlanta then Alcatraz. Syphilis eating his mind. The Palm Island house in Miami where he died in 1947, a broken man who once ran a city. — a daily series with new episodes every day.

Dennis Rader hid inside a Wichita neighborhood for thirty years, murdering ten people between 1974 and 1991, then went silent. The letters to the media, the taunting poems, the return to writing in 2004 that finally caught him. Compliance officer, church president, Cub Scout leader, killer. The floppy disk he asked police if it could be traced. The 175-year sentence in 2005. His daughter Kerri's decision to write about him. — a daily series with new episodes every day.

The thirteen-year-old girl who received a red-checkered diary for her birthday on June 12, 1942. The Secret Annex above 263 Prinsengracht. Two years, one month, one week. The betrayal on August 4, 1944. Westerbork transit camp. Auschwitz. Bergen-Belsen. Death from typhus in early 1945 weeks before liberation. Otto Frank as sole survivor. Miep Gies who kept the diary safe. The book that has sold thirty million copies. The girl who wrote In spite of everything I still believe. — a daily series with new episodes every day.

The Houston energy giant that went from Fortune's Most Innovative Company for six straight years to the largest bankruptcy in American history. Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, Andy Fastow. Mark-to-market accounting fraud. The special-purpose entities. Sherron Watkins' warning memo in August 2001. The California electricity crisis. The stock collapse from $90 to eighty cents. Arthur Andersen's shredding. December 2, 2001. 29,000 employees lost everything. The trial and the twelve years for Skilling. — a daily series with new episodes every day.

The Japanese attack that woke America up. The empire's decision. Yamamoto's plan. The six carriers steaming across the Pacific in radio silence. The Kido Butai. 353 aircraft in two waves at 7:48 AM Hawaii time. USS Arizona. USS Oklahoma. USS Utah. 2,403 dead. Roosevelt's date which will live in infamy address the next day. The declaration of war. The internment of Japanese Americans. The end of American isolationism began at Battleship Row. — a daily series with new episodes every day.