Episode summary: Want to sound more authentic when speaking Italian? Listen to discover the secrets of having an Italian accent. Join our Italian club and get a free mini Italian lesson every week: http://courses.joyoflanguages.com/5-minute-italian/ Get the bonus materials for this episode: http:...

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Episode summary: Debbie Schum waited a long time to receive the cremated ashes of her friend, LoraLee Johnson. When she did, she felt relieved to finally take them home with her. But then, she got a call from the FBI. We first aired this episode in 2020. Earlier this month, Megan Hess and Shirley Ko...

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Episode summary: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orson Welles’ film, released in 1941, which is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, films yet made. Welles plays the lead role of Charles Foster Kane, a newspaper magnate, and Welles directed, produced and co-wrote this story...

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Episode summary: Alex Fink think we already have enough information on the web: now it’s time to make sense of all of it. He’s built a fantastic tool called Otherweb that uses natural language processing to aggregate news from reputable outlets and filter out the junk. It even includes a search engi...

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Episode summary: Da quanto tempo! That’s the Italian expression for “long time no see” Our podcast is finally back. We’re really happy to be here with you again, with some exciting news about the new episodes. Join our Italian club and get a free mini Italian lesson every Sunday: http://courses.joy...

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Episode summary: The acclaimed music producer lays out his approach to creative collaboration.

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Episode summary: Like so many of us, Dan Saladino knows he needs to be in better shape, but why do his attempts to make a change keep failing? There’s one important question he needs to resolve, when it comes to diet, are his family helping or hindering his eating habits? In his search for better he...

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Episode summary: Two very different tales about making stuff up about the CIA. Your host shares the story of Sylvia Press, who in the 1950s, wrote a revenge novel after she was fired during the McCarthy purges. And author Jefferson Morley tells us about the time CIA director Richard Helms tried to c...

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Episode summary: Katherine Rundell is, in a word, enthusiastic. She’s enthusiastic about John Donne. She’s enthusiastic about walking along rooftops. She’s enthusiastic about words, and stories, and food. She has often started her morning with a cartwheel and is…

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