Significant Others

Significant Others

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.

  1. 03/27/2024

    Gala Dalí

    Lover and muse to multiple artists, Gala notoriously spit on people she didn’t like—or worse. Her marriage to the renowned artist Salvador Dalí was as surreal as his paintings, which he signed with both of their names even though she never held a brush. Starring Laura Ramoso as Gala Dalí and José  Arroyo as Salvador Dalí Also featuring Stephen K. Amos, Nigel Daly, Neve O’Brien, and Tavis Doucette   Source List: MUSE: Uncovering the Hidden Figures Behind Art History’s Masterpieces by Ruth Millington, ©2022, Pegasus Books, Ltd. The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired by Francine Prose, ©2002, Harper Collins E-books The Secret Life of Salvador Dali by Salvador Dali, Trans. By Haakom M. Chevalier, ©1993, Dover Publications Biography.com, The Surreal Romance of Salvador and Gala Dalí The Paris Review, When Your Muse is Also a Demonic Dominatrix The Art Story, Gala Dalí: Russian-Spanish Art Patron and Muse Wikipedia, Gala Dalí Fahrenheit Magazine, Anna María and Salvador Dalí, Different Paths for the Same Blood The Dalí Org, Gala Dalí Poetry Foundation, Paul Éluard The Art Story, Salvador Dalí Briannica, Salvador Dalí El País, Dalí and Lorca’s Games of Seduction Gazette du Bon Ton, The Surreal Life of Salvador Dalí Art Hive, Love Story in Pictures: Salvador Dalí and Gala Time, Salvador Dalí  The New York Times, Gala Dalí’s Life Wasn’t Quite Surreal, but It Was Pretty Strange Yang Gallery, Dalí & Gala: The Love Story

    45 min
  2. 03/20/2024

    Eileen Blair

    George Orwell has never been accused of being a feminist. And yet his wife Eileen left her mark on his most important works. Starring Sally Drexler as Eileen Blair and Nigel Daly as George Orwell Also featuring: Ben Partridge, Luke Millington-Drake, Thom Wickes, Amelia Chappelow, and Colin Anderson.   Source List: Eileen: The Making of George Orwell by Sylvia Topp, © 2020  Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life by Anna Funder, © 2023 Orwell: The Life by D.J. Taylor, © 2003, Published 2015 by Open Road Integrated Media Orwell: The New Life by D.J. Taylor, © 2023, Published by Pegasus Books, Ltd 1984 & Coming Up For Air by George Orwell, © 2021 by True Sign 1984 & Animal Farm by George Orwell, © 2022, Sanage Publishing The Guardian, Looking for Eileen: how George Orwell wrote his wife out of his story The New York Times, One Biography Questions Orwell’s Image, and Another Brings His First Wife Into Focus New Humanist, Eric, Eileen and Norah The American Scholar, Down and Out The Guardian, Orwell by DJ Taylor Review - A Very English Socialist The Orwell Foundation, Remembering Eileen: An Interview with George Orwell’s Son, Richard Blair The New York Times, How ‘Orwellian’ Became an All-Purpose Insult Online Etymology Dictionary, Orwellian The Sydney Morning Herald, The Mysterious Absence of George Orwell’s First Wife The Guardian, Another Piece of the Puzzle The Orwell Society, Eileen - and Orwell’s Shifting Attitudes on Gender Issues The New Yorker, Honest, Decent, Wrong The Article, In Defense of George Orwell

    38 min

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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.

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