On This Day: July 5.
By: Emily Goldstein
Narrated by: Kurt Heintz
Length: 11 minutes
Abridged: No
On This Day: July 5. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Dolly, the first clone of an adult mammal, was born; 26th Amendment certified; bikini debuts; Isaac Newton's Principia was published; Arthur Ashe wins Wimbledon Read more
View audiobookOn This Day: July 6.
By: Emily Goldstein
Narrated by: Kurt Heintz
Length: 12 minutes
Abridged: No
On This Day: July 6. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Althea Gibson is first Black person to win Wimbledon; activist Marsha P. Johnson was found dead; Louis Pasteur performs first rabies vaccination. Read more
View audiobookOn This Day: July 7.
By: Emily Goldstein
Narrated by: Kurt Heintz
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
On This Day: July 7. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of figure skater Michelle Kwan; Satchel Paige born; contstruction began on Hoover Dam; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle born Read more
View audiobookOn This Day: July 8.
By: Emily Goldstein
Narrated by: Kurt Heintz
Length: 12 minutes
Abridged: No
On This Day: July 8. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Vasco da Gama sailed from Lisbon; William Jennings Bryan delivered the Cross of Gold speech; John D. and Nelson Rockefeller born; death of Kim Il-Sung Read more
View audiobookOn This Day: July 9.
By: Emily Goldstein
Narrated by: Kurt Heintz
Length: 12 minutes
Abridged: No
On This Day: July 9 Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Catherine the Great overthrows her husband, Peter III, begins her reign as empress of Russia; birth of Nikola Tesla, birth of O.J. Simpson Read more
View audiobookOn This Day: July 10.
By: Emily Goldstein
Narrated by: Kurt Heintz & Yvette C. Lee
Length: 14 minutes
Abridged: No
On This Day: July 10. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of Mary McLeod Bethune; birth of Mel Blanc; Scopes Trial begins in Dayton, Tennessee. Read more
View audiobookOn This Day: July 13.
By: Meg Matthias
Narrated by: Kurt Heintz & John Rafferty
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
On This Day: July 13. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Murder of Jean-Paul Marat; Live Aid benefit concert held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia; iconic Hollywood sign dedicated Read more
View audiobookOn This Day: July 14.
By: Meg Matthias
Narrated by: Kurt Heintz & Henry Bolzon
Length: 10 minutes
Abridged: No
On This Day: July 14. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Sacco and Vanzetti found guilty of murder; Bastille Day; birth of animator William Hanna; death of Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani Read more
View audiobookOn This Day: July 15.
By: Meg Matthias
Narrated by: Kurt Heintz
Length: 10 minutes
Abridged: No
On This Day: July 15. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of American singer Linda Ronstadt; the unmanned space probe Mariner 4 returned close-up pictures of the surface of Mars; the murder of Gianni Versace. Read more
View audiobookOn This Day: July 16.
By: Meg Matthias
Narrated by: Kurt Heintz, Ariadne Argyros & Tara Betts
Length: 13 minutes
Abridged: No
On This Day: July 16. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of activist Ida B. Wells; first atomic bomb exploded near Alamogordo, New Mexico; birth of dancer and actress Ginger Rogers. Read more
View audiobookOn This Day: July 17.
By: Meg Matthias
Narrated by: Kurt Heintz
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
On This Day: July 17. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Opening of Disneyland; execution of Russian Nicholas II and his family; crash of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 Read more
View audiobookOn This Day: July 20.
By: Kurt Heintz
Narrated by: Kurt Heintz
Length: 12 minutes
Abridged: No
On This Day: July 20. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Apollo 11 mission; historical context of space travel; death of journalist Helen Thomas; birth of adventurer Edmund Hillary Read more
View audiobookOn This Day: July 21.
By: Kurt Heintz
Narrated by: Kurt Heintz & Henry Bolzon
Length: 13 minutes
Abridged: No
On This Day: July 21. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of Ernest Hemingway, arrest of Radovan Karadzic, death of Ta Mok. Read more
View audiobookOn This Day: August 3.
By: Emily Goldstein
Narrated by: Kurt Heintz, Meg Matthais & Henry Bolzon
Length: 14 minutes
Abridged: No
On This Day: August 3. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of Martha Stewart; voyage of atomic submarine Nautilus; Christopher Columbus began the first of four transatlantic voyages. Read more
View audiobookOn This Day: August 4.
By: Emily Goldstein
Narrated by: Kurt Heintz & Meg Matthais
Length: 16 minutes
Abridged: No
On This Day: August 4. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Birth of Barack Obama; launch of US space probe Phoenix; and birth of Louis Armstrong. Read more
View audiobookOn This Day: August 5.
By: Emily Goldstein
Narrated by: Kurt Heintz & Meg Matthais
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
On This Day: August 5. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Death of Marilyn Monroe; birth of Neil Armstrong; the US, USSR, and UK sign the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty; cave-in at the San Jose mine in Chile Read more
View audiobookOn This Day: August 6.
By: Emily Goldstein
Narrated by: Kurt Heintz, Meg Matthais & Emily Goldstein
Length: 17 minutes
Abridged: No
On This Day: August 6. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. NASA's Curiosity rover lands on Mars; US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan Read more
View audiobookOn This Day: August 7.
By: Emily Goldstein
Narrated by: Kurt Heintz & Meg Matthais
Length: 15 minutes
Abridged: No
On This Day: August 7. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. 1st murder by Jack the Ripper committed, Ke$ha hit song "Tik Tok" released, death of Oliver Hardy. Read more
View audiobookOn This Day: August 10.
By: Meg Matthias
Narrated by: Kurt Heintz, Emily Goldstein & Meredith Malone
Length: 16 minutes
Abridged: No
On This Day: August 10. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Death of Spanish artist Joaquรญn Sorolla y Bastida, overthrow of French King Louis XVI, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn into the U.S. Supreme Court. Read more
View audiobookOn This Day: August 11.
By: Meg Matthias
Narrated by: Kurt Heintz & Emily Goldstein
Length: 12 minutes
Abridged: No
On This Day: August 11. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Death of Jackson Pollock, last game of the 1994 Major League Baseball season before players' labor strike, and Watts Rebellion. Read more
View audiobookConvict Colony
By: David Hill
Narrated by: Conrad Coleby
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of 1788.
The remarkable story of the fledgling settlement that survived against the odds.
Bestselling historian David Hill tells the story of the first three decades of Britain's earliest colony in Australia in a fresh and compelling way.
The British plan to settle Australia was a high-risk venture. We now take it for... Read more
On This Day: August 12.
By: Meg Matthias
Narrated by: Kurt Heintz & Emily Goldstein
Length: 10 minutes
Abridged: No
On This Day: August 12. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Sue the T-Rex discovered; Lennon declares the Beatles "more popular than Jesus"; Thomas Edison invents the phonograph. Read more
View audiobookOn This Day: May 3.
By: Kurt Heintz
Narrated by: Kurt Heintz
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
On This Day: May 3. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Margaret Mitchell wins the Pulitzer Prize, Margaret Thatcher elected Prime Minister; Bing Crosby born; Bill Shoemaker; Beer Barrel Polka Read more
View audiobookOn this Day. Thanksgiving.
By: Emily Goldstein
Narrated by: Kurt Heintz
Length: 19 minutes
Abridged: No
On This Day: Thanksgiving, in the US and Canada. A special podcast on significant holidays Read more
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