Significant Others
History Podcasts
Did you know that the novel "Lolita" would not exist if Vladimir Nabokov’s wife hadn’t stopped her husband from burning the manuscript? Or that Gandhi learned his legendary method of passive resistance from his wife? Or that the person responsible for Maya Angelou’s genre-defining memoir was her good friend James Baldwin? Significant Others is a narrated, nonfiction podcast about folks just beyond the spotlight of history. Each episode tells the story of a talented, difficult and little-known individual who altered the destiny of their better-known partner, child, sibling, or friend, and impacted the world they left behind. Narrated and written by Liza Powel O’Brien and featuring the voices of Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Jameela Jamil, Rita Wilson, Timothy Olyphant, Lisa Kudrow and many more.
Location:
United States
Genres:
History Podcasts
Description:
Did you know that the novel "Lolita" would not exist if Vladimir Nabokov’s wife hadn’t stopped her husband from burning the manuscript? Or that Gandhi learned his legendary method of passive resistance from his wife? Or that the person responsible for Maya Angelou’s genre-defining memoir was her good friend James Baldwin? Significant Others is a narrated, nonfiction podcast about folks just beyond the spotlight of history. Each episode tells the story of a talented, difficult and little-known individual who altered the destiny of their better-known partner, child, sibling, or friend, and impacted the world they left behind. Narrated and written by Liza Powel O’Brien and featuring the voices of Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Jameela Jamil, Rita Wilson, Timothy Olyphant, Lisa Kudrow and many more.
Language:
English
Email:
significantpod@gmail.com
Daron Acemoglu on Marxism and AI
Duration:00:28:01
The Marxes
Duration:00:43:34
Claire Dederer on Reckoning with Problematic Artists
Duration:00:39:54
Gala Dalí
Duration:00:44:48
Sandra Newman on her Retelling of 1984
Duration:00:26:08
Eileen Blair
Duration:00:37:41
Fernando Arroyo on Musical Collaboration
Duration:00:37:10
Billy Strayhorn
Duration:00:40:27
Stephen West on Philosophy
Duration:00:29:14
Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche
Duration:00:48:21
Hilary Liftin on the Art of Ghostwriting
Duration:00:33:12
George Palmer Putnam
Duration:00:47:31
Eric Marcus on Bayard Rustin’s Legacy
Duration:00:37:38
Bayard Rustin
Duration:00:48:37
Sarah Vowell on Peggy Shippen & Revolutionary America
Duration:00:27:28
Peggy Shippen
Duration:00:54:17
Significant Others Returns!
Duration:00:01:58
Bonus Episode: Dr. Susan Flinn on the Significant Others Within Ourselves
Duration:00:48:17
Bonus Episode: Liza Mundy on the History of Women at the CIA
Duration:00:44:32
Bonus Episode: Dr. Emily Wilson on the Art of Translation
Duration:00:27:02