Lifelines with John Augustine - Delta College Public Radio

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John Augustine reviews biographies and recounts the lives of the people featured in them. From Delta College Public Radio.

  1. MAR 25

    Eleanor Roosevelt

    Stephen Smith's "The First Lady of Radio" examines Eleanor Roosevelt's role as the first first lady to do regularly-scheduled radio programs. Support this podcast: https://www.deltapublicmedia.org/donate/

    4 min

  2. 10/01/2025

    Alexis de Tocqueville

    Alexis de Tocqueville was born in France 62 years after Thomas Jefferson, but the parallels between them are remarkable. Support Delta College Public Radio: https://www.deltabroadcasting.org/donate/

    5 min

  3. 10/01/2025

    Herodotus

    Herodotus of Athens was the first significant historian. This idea was so new that he didn't even call his stories of the wars between the Ancient Persians and Greeks "history." Support Delta College Public Radio: https://www.deltabroadcasting.org/donate/

    4 min

  4. 09/26/2025

    George Gershwin

    It's remarkable to realize that Gershwin, the favorite American modernist composer, was born when many Civil War veterans were still alive. Support Delta College Public Radio: https://www.deltabroadcasting.org/donate/

    4 min

  5. 07/16/2025

    Edgar Allen Poe

    There is a mystery around the death of Edgar Allen Poe and John Walsh is convinced he has solved the case.

    5 min

  6. 07/09/2025

    Horatio Nelson Jackson

    In 1903, on a $50 bet, Horatio Nelson Jackson set out on the first journey by car from San Francisco to New York.

    5 min

  7. 07/02/2025

    Samuel Pepys

    The most famous English diarist, Samuel Pepys, lived in the 1600s and the phrase "may you live in interesting times" certainly applies.

    5 min

  8. 04/30/2025

    40 Ways to Look at Winston Churchill by Gretchen Rubin

    If there's a 20th century world champion subject for biography, it would have to be Winston Churchill. Fortunately, a small door has been opened by Gretchen Rubin and her book, "40 Ways to Look at Winston Churchill."

    5 min
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John Augustine reviews biographies and recounts the lives of the people featured in them. From Delta College Public Radio.

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