Legacy

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From Wondery and Goalhanger Podcasts, Afua Hirsch and Peter Frankopan tell the wild stories of some of the most extraordinary men and women ever to have lived – and ask whether they have the rep they deserve. Should Nina Simone’s role in the civil rights movement be more celebrated than it is? When you find out what Picasso got up to in his studio, can you still admire his art? Was Napoleon a hero or a tyrant - or both? (And, while we’re at it, was he even short?) Legacy is the show that looks at big lives from the perspective of now – and doesn’t always like what it sees. Listen to Legacy on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. You can binge episodes early and ad-free on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting wondery.com/links/legacy now.

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Every day, hundreds of people go about their lives with no idea that someone has paid to have them killed. In the depths of the dark net, tech journalist Carl Miller makes a disturbing discovery: a secret “kill list” targeting hundreds of innocent people on a murder-for-hire website. When the police are slow to investigate, Carl is thrown into a race against time to warn those in danger and uncover the truth before it’s too late. From Wondery and Novel comes a shocking true story about obsession, control and the price of life and death. Follow the Kill List on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. You can binge all episodes early and ad-free on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting www.wondery.com/links/kill-list now.

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TRUE CRIME
In a country obsessed with gossip, the great and the good fear one thing more than any other - scandal. British scandals change the course of history. They bring down governments, overthrow the rich and cause the mighty to fall. Some are about sex, others about money. In the end, they’re all about power. But often at the heart of a scandal, there are ordinary human stories. Stories of those caught up in the swirl of outrage. Who was really to blame for what happened? Why did they do it? And when all is said and done, did anything really change? From the creators of Business Wars, American Scandal and Ghost Story, comes British Scandal. Each week, hosts Alice Levine and Matt Forde delve into the murkier side of the British elite, from Phone Hacking to Profumo to the short-lived premiership of Liz Truss. Because sometimes the truth doesn’t set everyone free… Listen to British Scandal on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen early and ad-free on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting wondery.com/links/british-scandal/ now.

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Well done. You’ve sorted through the embarrassment of riches that is the modern podcast landscape and found me, Rob Brydon, on my podcast. It’s terrific conversation, full of anecdotes and reminiscence where appropriate. Listen to Brydon & on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen ad-free on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting wondery.com/links/brydon/ now.

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These are stories you were never meant to hear. The invisible but vital work of the world’s intelligence services: secret operatives playing to very different rules. The Spy Who, hosted by Indira Varma and Raza Jaffrey, takes you deep inside that shadow world to meet spies who risked everything in the national interest – or, sometimes, their own. Listen to The Spy Who ad-free on Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting wondery.com/links/the-spy-who now.

4.6 (205)

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366 Ratings

Refreshing views of history that reframe the present

5 days ago

Koo London

Hirsch and Frankopan are fantastic choices as co-hosts of this long-lens-of-history view, which brings together systemic-level discussion, engaging dramatisation, refreshing opinion, intellectual rigour in their assessments and lighter scenario-ising. Of course there are some personal biases and, in my opinion, far too much of a charitable summation of some of the monstrous figures discussed. This is also a simplified and broadly accessible presentation of history - not a stuffy linear reading of the usual tedious and myopic histories conventionally espoused. So sad to see other listeners’ petty, twitchy, self-serving and one dimensional views of history and politics, leading to leaving salty and immature reviews as their worldviews are uncomfortably challenged. I’m personally excited by the potential for growth in that discomfort. Highly recommend.
Just Afual

2 days ago

P. S. Doff

Despite the low rating, I decided to give a few episodes a try. Unfortunately, I only managed to get through one and a half because Afua Hirsch is utterly unbearable. She has a bossy, hectoring tone and the hypocrisy/cognitive dissonance in a lot of her first year undergrad level self-absorbed preaching and self-perpetuating victimhood (despite her enormous privilege) made this pod a hard listen. If you want to know what it was like, just imagine the most opinionated posh garl in the Junior Common Room reading Guardian op eds aloud, in a braying private school accent, forever. One star is being over generous and it would have been a zero if I’d had the option. 👎
So so

2 days ago

Django H

Not bad, but Frankopan irritates by being condescending to Hirsch AND he consistently, and distractingly mispronounces “NUCLEAR” as “NUCULER” which shows him up to be a dolt. It’s ok, nothing new revealed but will suffice if you’ve run out of the interesting podcasts in your list. That’s how I ran aground on its sandbar.
No thanks

5 days ago

mcanus

Made it to about 3 minutes, when it became very obvious that this is going to be one woman’s mission to destroy the father of western freedom as we know it. No thankyou. He saved billions of people, he didn’t produce inconsequential podcasts.

From Wondery and Goalhanger Podcasts, Afua Hirsch and Peter Frankopan tell the wild stories of some of the most extraordinary men and women ever to have lived – and ask whether they have the rep they deserve. Should Nina Simone’s role in the civil rights movement be more celebrated than it is? When you find out what Picasso got up to in his studio, can you still admire his art? Was Napoleon a hero or a tyrant - or both? (And, while we’re at it, was he even short?) Legacy is the show that looks at big lives from the perspective of now – and doesn’t always like what it sees. Listen to Legacy on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. You can binge episodes early and ad-free on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting wondery.com/links/legacy now.