The Secret History Podcast Episodes
Written by Donna Tartt
218 Episodes - 559 pages - ★★★★ - 211K ratings
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CO113 Mark Vernon on the Secret History of Christianity
Challenging Opinions >> - June 17, 2019 10:47 ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMark Vernon is a psychotherapist and writer, with a degree in physics, before two degrees in theology, and a PhD in philosophy. He’s written books covering subjects from friendship and belief, to wellbeing and love. His next book, A Secret History of Christianity, is published at the end of Augus...
CO113 Mark Vernon on the Secret History of Christianity
Challenging Opinions >> - June 17, 2019 10:47 ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsMark Vernon is a psychotherapist and writer, with a degree in physics, before two degrees in theology, and a PhD in philosophy. He’s written books covering subjects from friendship and belief, to wellbeing and love. His next book, A Secret History of Christianity, is published at the end of Augus...
CO113 Mark Vernon on the Secret History of Christianity
Challenging Opinions >> - June 17, 2019 10:47 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsMark Vernon is a psychotherapist and writer, with a degree in physics, before two degrees in theology, and a PhD in philosophy. He’s written books covering subjects from friendship and belief, to wellbeing and love. His next book, A Secret History of Christianity, is published at the end of Augus...
OTL #660: Black South Side food scene, Today’s college student, The Secret History of Loleatta Holloway
Outside the Loop RADIO - June 08, 2019 14:54 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsMike Stephen learns about new Chicago Tribune coverage of the Black South Side food scene, discusses the state of college students today, and discovers the Secret History of Disco Diva Loleatta Holloway. This week's local music is brought to you by They Won't Win.
OTL #658: Ald. La Spata arrives, Illinois’ bad bet on gambling, The Secret History of the Universal Togetherness Band
Outside the Loop RADIO - May 25, 2019 20:26 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsMike Stephen talks to new 1st Ward Ald. Daniel La Spata about the issues, learns how Illinois video gambling is a bad bet, and discovers the Secret History of local 70s funkers The Universal Togetherness Band. This week's local music is brought to you by The Dead Licks.
Harun Maruf: Inside Al-Shabaab: The Secret History of Al-Qaeda’s Most Powerful Ally
Westminster Institute talks - May 25, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHarun Maruf is a reporter and writer at VOA Africa Division with an extensive experience in working in conflict zones. He also covers security, extremism, piracy, human rights, politics and other current affairs issues. He secured the first radio interview with the late American jihadist Omar Ha...
OTL #656: Chicago’s lax recycling, Green Energy for IL, The Secret History of The Mentally Ill
Outside the Loop RADIO - May 11, 2019 19:09 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsMike Stephen learns about recent problems with Chicago’s recycling program, discusses the clean energy efforts of Illinois, and discovers the Secret History of Deerfield punkers The Mentally Ill. This week's local music is brought to you by Mush.
The Secret History of Wonder Woman: Batman is a Gay Icon
Read Between the Vines - May 09, 2019 18:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingApril's book was The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore. How does Wonder Woman connect to the suffragists? The birth control movement? The second wave feminists? Polygamy? Free love? ALL THAT STUFF. There's a lot in here. Don't listen if you hate women. Grab your water bottle full of ...
Episode 51: Full Frontal Floriculture - The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig
Whoa!mance: Romance, Feminism, and Ourselves - April 24, 2019 06:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsWell if it isn’t another twofer. This week, Morgan and Isabeau are taking a trip to the flower shoppe with the first installment of Lauren Willig’s Pink Carnation series, a novel set in the world of Baroness Orczy’s notable 1905 work The Scarlet Pimpernel. In Willig’s novel, graduate student El...
The Secret History of WW2 - The Sinking of SS Athenia
WW2 History Podcast - April 08, 2019 00:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsShortly after Great Britain declared war on Nazi Germany, Fritz Lemp, commander of german submarine U-30 made a ghastly mistake. He attacked and sunk passenger liner with over 1400 passengers on board. Germans had done everything they could possibly, do to cover it up!
Episode Five - The Secret History of Twin Peaks
Front Three-Quarter View (a Twin Peaks podcast) - April 06, 2019 17:47 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsThis week, I talk about how much I love The Secret History of Twin Peaks! Play along with 'Twin Peaks Interactive' at @twinpeaksgame. Please let me know what you think of Front Three-Quarter View on Twitter @jamesmwriter or @ioluspoetry. Thanks for all your amazing feedback so far!
RMC Episode 489: The Secret History of Mac Gaming
RetroMacCast - March 30, 2019 15:45 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 81 ratingsJames and John discuss eBay finds: Apple sign, IIGS upgrade, and the JLPGA PowerBook. John chats with Richard Moss, author of The Secret History of Mac Gaming, and news includes ContrAlto, a barn find, an SE/30 clear case project, and a Lisa gathering. To see all of the show notes and join...
Episode 91 - The Secret History of Batting Helmets
This Week In Baseball History - March 13, 2019 05:19 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 224 ratingsBatting helmets have become such an entrenched part of baseball that it's easy to forget not only that they once weren't required, but that making them mandatory was a fifty year process, full of fits and starts. One of those starts took place 78 years ago this week, when the Dodgers announced t...
"Mission: Improbable - The Secret History of Section 31"
DISCO NIGHTS: A STAR TREK DISCOVERY PODCAST - March 10, 2019 10:11 ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsHost CHASE MASTERSON (Deep Space Nine) goes undercover to examine the secret history of Section 31 in Star Trek with special agents JEFF BOND (author, The World of The Orville, The Art of The Kelvin Universe), ALEXANDRA AUGUST (writer, CBR) and LISA KLINK (writer, Star Trek: Voyager). Also: don'...
Ep. 21 - The Secret History (Tartt)
Westward - February 25, 2019 17:00 - 1 hourWestward the Course of Empire Takes its Way
The Secret History of the Pentagon's Hollywood Studio
Angry Planet - February 22, 2019 22:50 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 576 ratingsAt the end of World War II and deep into the Cold War, the American Military operated a strange building deep in the Hollywood Hills. It was the 1352nd Photographic Group of the United States Air Force, and for two decades it served as a nexus between the Pentagon and Hollywood. Part movie studi...
The Secret History of "Walk This Way"
Rolling Stone Music Now - February 12, 2019 22:04 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 875 ratingsHow Run-DMC and Aerosmith changed music: Geoff Edgers, author of a new book on the song's history, and producer Jack Douglas join host Brian Hiatt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
WWY ep129 The Secret History of Big Bird
Weird With You Podcast - February 06, 2019 00:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThis week's episode is brought to you by Bat Toupees. Was Jim Henson a horrible sloth-killing monster? You decide, as we discuss the secret history of Big Bird in this ridiculous episode of WWY.
1/31 "Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A" by Lili Anolik
Lori & Julia's Book Club - February 01, 2019 15:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsMeet avant garde literary star, Eve Babitz. No one wrote about Hollywood like Eve and that’s because no one lived like her. This is a dishy splashy biography that started out as a story in Vanity Fair. Lili Anolik becomes obsessed with finding Eve and getting to know everything she could about he...
The Secret History of the Slave Behind Jack Daniel’s Whiskey
Gastropod - January 28, 2019 23:51 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.2K ratingsBack in 1866, Jack Daniel’s became the first registered distillery in the United States; today, it’s the top-selling American whiskey in the world. For much of the brand’s 150-plus years, the story went that the young Jack Daniel learned his trade from a pastor named Dan Call. In reality, he was ...
221: The Secret History of iPhone
Vector - January 22, 2019 20:07 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 353 ratingsTwelve years Steve Jobs announced a wide-screen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone, and a breakthrough internet device. But it wasn't three products. It was one product. Yeah, we got it, Steve. It was the iPhone. And here's how it came to be. SPONSOR: Brilliant Go to htt...
Canada's Area 51 & The Secret History Of The World Feat. Jonny Enoch & David Whitehead
Way Of The Truth Warrior Podcast - January 18, 2019 16:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this ep. of Truth Warrior I speak to my good friend Jonny Enoch about the secret side of Canada that most have never heard about. Stuff like underground military bases, restricted cave systems, legit UFO activity, weird satanist cults, and some insider info on Canada’s “Area 51.”Is there some...
The secret history of champagne - Samppanjan salainen historia
SBS Finnish - SBS Finnish - Finnish - January 01, 2019 05:55 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIt’s said when Dom Perignon invented champagne he told his fellow monks, “Come quickly, I am tasting the stars.” - Tarun mukaan munkki Dom Perignon, jota pidetään samppanjan keksijänä, huudahti muille muille munkeille:"Tulkaa pian, tässä juomassa on tähtien maku"
Episode 20 – Uncovering the Secret History of Soldiers
On War & Society - December 31, 2018 05:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSince the late 1990s, Canadian historian Tim Cook has carved out a niche in the field of First World War history. In his two-volume social history of the war, he spoke of a soldiers’ culture, which bound Canadians together on the battlefields and helped them cope with the immense stress and stra...
WRITER 259: How to get invited to writers’ festivals. And meet Stuart Coupe, author of ‘Roadies: The Secret History of Australian Rock 'n' Roll’.
So You Want to be a Writer - November 21, 2018 06:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsMeet Stuart Coupe, author of ‘Roadies: The Secret History of Australian Rock 'n' Roll’. Congratulations to AWC graduate Frances Chapman for winning the 2018 Ampersand Prize. How to get invited to writers’ festivals and more. Read the show notes. Email Valerie and Allison podcast@writerscentre....
The Secret History of the Future: Infinite Scroll
The Economist Podcasts - November 07, 2018 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 2.8K ratingsThe Renaissance scholars couldn’t keep up with new information (“Have you read the latest Erasmus book?” “I don’t have time!”) and needed a better way to organize it. Thus came the invention of tables of contents, indexes, book reviews, encyclopedias, and other shortcuts. What kinds of technologi...
The Secret History of the Future: A Little Less Conversation
The Economist Podcasts - October 31, 2018 08:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 2.8K ratingsSome people thought the laying of the transatlantic cable might bring world peace, because connecting humans could only lead to better understanding and empathy. That wasn’t the outcome, and recent utopian ideas about communication (Facebook might bring us together and make us all friends!) have ...
The Secret History of the Future: VR or It Didn’t Happen
The Economist Podcasts - October 24, 2018 08:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 2.8K ratingsIn the Victorian era, plaster casts became a way to preserve important artifacts in 3-D. Now, virtual reality promises to preserve places and experiences. But who decides what gets preserved? And is the technology an accurate recreation of the experience, or does it fool us into thinking we’ve en...
The Secret History of SUSHI
Masters of Social Gastronomy - October 22, 2018 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsMasters of Social Gastronomy fearlessly takes on food topics, breaking down the history, science, and stories behind hiding behind them. Up this month: sushi! Sarah will present a history of sushi in the United States, a bizarre story bathed in celebrity. It took a smash-hit TV mini-series to tu...
The Secret History of the Future: A Clock in the Sky
The Economist Podcasts - October 17, 2018 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 2.8K ratingsIn 1714, British parliament offered a huge cash prize to anyone who could find a way to determine longitude at sea. And it worked, sort of ... several decades later. Are modern contests (DARPA challenges, the X Prize) offering riches and glory an effective way to spur technological innovation? Gu...