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La quinta temporada del éxitoso podcast original: ¿Por qué matamos? ya está aquí. Crímenes reales, diversos, dentro de la geografía española. Casos ya sentenciados sucedidos en las últimas décadas, trabajados con rigor, explicados con técnicas narrativas específicas y con un punto sociológico, como su título sugiere, intentando entender a través de la serie por qué los humanos matamos a humanos.

When scores of aspiring parents turned to the fertility industry to start families, they chose a remarkable young man to be the biological father of their children. He was a music prodigy and gifted athlete who had a genius IQ, movie star looks, and perfect health....

The spring of 2017 should have been the greatest time of Cat Marnell’s life. She was 34 and living the New York glamour life downtown, with a thriving career and a best-selling memoir. Instead, it was one of the worst. She’d gone through a protracted and traumatic breakup, nearly run out of money, and, during a month-long binge, "done something horrible" to herself that she couldn’t undo. Her troubles mounting, Marnell makes a radically simple choice: She decides to leave her problems behind.

In C. S. Lewis: Writer, Scholar, Seeker, Dr. Sørina Higgins will take you on a fascinating expedition through the life and work of this influential author, examining the crucial events and relationships that shaped his personal, literary, and spiritual journeys.

Dermot O'Leary interviews a range of people he greatly admires from the worlds of sport, fashion, politics and entertainment.

When cocaine queen-pin Lanie Jacobs ditches Miami for Los Angeles, she meets Roy Radin - a washed-up theater producer with big dreams (and even bigger demons).

Come Out, Come Out is a podcast about coming out of the closet, and it’s also a funny, joyful exploration of love, sex and the pursuit of happiness.

Wrestling with your conscience when you have a burger? Concerned that you should switch to almond milk lattes? Rachel Khoo is worried too. The chef and broadcaster trained in French cuisine and her career has been built on the motto: “Butter makes everything better.” But all this talk about veganism has started getting to her. Should she change her cooking, her eating and her lifestyle to stop global warming?

Gloria Burtzlaff feared for her life one day back in April of 1991 when her abusive husband, Larry, drunk and violent, slapped her, hit her, and began pelting her with glasses. After he tried to drown her in a tub, she got the family shotgun and confronted him in his underwear. “Larry, I’m going to kill you,” she declared. Defense lawyers would later claim he lifted a glass as if to say, “Have at it, sister.” Have at It, Sister is a true-crime tale about Gloria, a South Dakota woman who shot her abusive husband and was put on trial in a precedent-setting case.

In this poignant audio piece, Samantha Allen takes listeners along for the wild ride of her own transition: The good, the bad, but mostly, the funny. Because once she began this life-changing journey in earnest, Samantha realized that while the emotional trials of gender dysphoria and self-discovery could be harrowing, there were so many laugh-out-loud moments along this winding road.

Hold Fast is the uncompromising story of Backpage.com, the world’s most scandalous website, and the rise and fall of alternative weekly newspapers nationwide.

Dermot O'Leary welcomes you back to the second season of his interview podcast, People, Just People. Inspired by understanding how some of the most interesting people in all walks of life got to where they have, Dermot chats candidly with guests about key moments that have defined them, the lessons they have learnt and much more.

Sir Michael Caine knows a lot about heroes. Fearless people who face danger and adversity head on, using their courage and strength to save the lives of others and show true bravery when the odds are stacked against them. Caine explores exceptional true stories of personal strength and gets to know the real people behind the headlines. Powerful, inspirational and life changing, no one ever said being a hero was easy.

Il podcast racconta la storia di Anna Prouse, italiana di 50 anni che vive a San Francisco dove lavora per un colosso mondiale della tecnologia. Raccontiamola sua storia a partire dai giorni nostri, quando la sua vita frenetica viene stravolta dalla scoperta di un tumore incurabile al cervello, per poi tornare indietro alla sua infanzia nell'alta borghesia milanese, la carriera da giornalista, per arrivare agli otto anni passati in Iraq con vari incarichi governativi durante l'occupazione americana.

In 2011 a group of fishermen living on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England, were convicted for one of the largest, most audacious drug-smuggling plots in British history. They were accused of scooping up £53mill ($69 mill) worth of pure cocaine in the dead of night from the middle of the English Channel.

Il rapimento più lungo d'Italia, una famiglia travolta da uno tsunami, la sopravvissuta a una sparatoria e un uomo che ha visto le sue tre figlie uccise dalla moglie. Cos'hanno in comune queste e altre storie? Sono storie di chi è piombato nel buio, ma ha avuto la forza di ritrovare la luce. Rivivremo, ascoltandoli dalla loro viva voce loro e da quella dei testimoni del loro dramma, gli eventi che li hanno fatti precipitare e dai quali hanno avuto la forza di riemergere. Storie difficili, estreme, cha sapranno raccontarci un nuovo modo di guardare alle nostre vite.

State of North Carolina vs. Charles Ray Finch is a story that takes us back to the Civil Rights Era American South, a tale formed in the cauldron of racial tensions in rural North Carolina that erupts when a white country store owner is gunned down in a robbery.

In this poignant and deeply personal audio experience, host Maria Luisa Tucker investigates the disappearance of her own father, and uses the many theories that emerge to explore what it means to be a family today.

Elizabeth Banks believes that sex education is a lifelong pursuit and when done well, has the power to transform lives and society itself.

In this unflinchingly honest documentary and memoir, comedian Josh Thomas asks the big question: how do I be gay? Irreverent but informative, Josh Thomas speaks to a party of hilarious and experienced queer storytellers as they share true tales and advice on how to be gay. When I was a teenager trying to work out how to be gay I would ask google impossible questions. 'Am I gay?' 'How can I test if I’m gay?' 'If I’m gay do I have to do anal?' It didn’t work....