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CITIES is a narrative podcast about how cities form, grow, and fight with themselves. Each episode takes one city and tells the story of the decisions, accidents, and arguments that shaped it. The tone is warm, intelligent, and slightly contrarian. Think BBC Radio 4 meets longform journalism you can listen to on a walk.

John Wilson (acclaimed arts and culture reporter and journalist, and presenter of Front Row, Newsnight Review and Pick of the Week) meets up with a variety of public figures from such diverse fields as food, mathematics, politics, writing and music, and takes them back to the influential schools, teachers and early workplaces they may have forgotten, but which have not forgotten them.

America's richest legends come from the frontier - from the land where the events of a single moment might erase the lines between law and lawlessness, between safety and mortal danger, between heroes and villains. The carefully selected stories in this collection are vibrant proof that the great American West is a fertile ground to storytellers. Here is the most varied collection of short stories by 17 highly acclaimed Western writers.

When the security director of the powerful corporation Nebulaco dies under mysterious circumstances, courier Sai Collins has one last top-secret delivery to make on his behalf. Sai has come a long way from her street-kid childhood, but she has her secrets - namely that she’s a cyber-psi, a computer telepath who can connect to the grid without hardware. A talent she’s going to desperately need.

Bill Doleman and Chris Schmidt, former hosts of The Average Joe Sports Show on ESPN Lincoln, have teamed up with Gary Sharp of 1620 The Zone and Elijah Herbel to bring the popular radio show back as a weekly podcast!