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Chuck Schaden: The Man Who Kept the Radio Playing
Those Were the Days, Metro Golden Memories, and the Chicago broadcaster who helped keep old-time radio alive
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33:41
When the Rules Disappeared The Real Moscow Behind East of the Map: The Fax Machine
What happens to ordinary life when an old system disappears faster than a new one can replace it?
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36:22
The End of the World Was Run from Omaha
How an ordinary Nebraska city became the nerve center of America’s nuclear deterrent—and lived every day beside the machinery of Armageddon.
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52:46
The Zeal of Thy House | Dorothy L. Sayers
A Cathedral, a Craftsman, and the Dangerous Glory of Creation Sunday Night at the Little Station
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52:58
When the Alarm Rings and Nobody Moves
Normalcy Bias — Why We Assume Tomorrow Will Look Like Yesterday
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28:39
What Does It Mean to Be Human in the Age of AI?
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, asks whether our greatest technological danger is not that machines become human—but that human…
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45:01
The Enemy Below: The Night History Broke In
A BBC wartime drama broadcast the day after JFK’s assassination — with the news of November 23, 1963 still attached
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25:28
What Is College for in the Age of AI?
MIT’s “watershed moment” raises a deeper question: If AI can produce the answer, what does it mean to learn?
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27:14
Three Days of Frost | Before David Jason, There Was Leslie Sands
The forgotten 1977 BBC radio drama that introduced Inspector Jack Frost—and began one of British detective fiction’s most remarkable journeys
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23:35
Through the Perilous Fight
The remarkable true story behind “The Star-Spangled Banner” — and how old-time radio remembered the night that gave America its anthem
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26:06
Al Jolson: The Greatest Entertainer America Forgot
George Burns remembered him as the greatest entertainer he ever saw. A century later, we return to the stage to discover why.
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28:51
Dolly Parton: The Girl from the Tennessee Mountains
Radio, the Grand Ole Opry, and a Remarkable American Life
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