#73 Once in a Lifetime

11/24/22 • 24 min

The story of Halley’s Comet—the only reoccurring comet visible to the naked eye that shows up every 75 years or so. Throughout history its appearance has marked profound change, from the conquest of the British Isles to the fall of the Qing Dynasty.

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Music:

Hello! by David Wingo & Explosions in the Sky
Time’s Blur by Lord Huron
Opening (arr. for marimba) by Philip Glass & Nathaniel Bartlett
Katrina Outtake by Matthew Robert Cooper
Ceiling Gazing by Mark Kozelek
Expectation by Matthew Robert Cooper
Never Ever by Lord Huron

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Music:

Hello! by David Wingo & Explosions in the Sky
Time’s Blur by Lord Huron
Opening (arr. for marimba) by Philip Glass & Nathaniel Bartlett
Katrina Outtake by Matthew Robert Cooper
Ceiling Gazing by Mark Kozelek
Expectation by Matthew Robert Cooper
Never Ever by Lord Huron

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#72: The Trial of Sunshine Charlie

Summer 1929 was the pinnacle of a new era of banking, and Charles E. Mitchell emblematized the live-fast-die-young ethos of roaring twenties stock salesmen. As the Great Crash led into the Great Depression, Charlie’s ambition brought about his downfall and forced him to go toe-to-toe with one of most doggedly committed prosecutors of the era: Ferdinand Pecora. It’s a story that’s more timely now than ever.
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Music:

Hindustan by Bob Crosby & The Bob Cats
Dogtown Blues by Bob Crosby & The Bob Cats
Adagio in G Minor for Strings and Organ by the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Easy Opium by Ben von Wildenhaus
Battle of the Species by Antibalas
Music for the Royal Fireworks by Handel
One Bad Motherfucker in His Day by Ben von Wildenhaus
Reckless by Brocker Way
The Ox by The Who
Potato Boy by Mac Demarco
Tryouts by Brocker Way
Heartaches by Al Bowlly
The Beast by Dick Dale
Let There Be Drums by Sandy Nelson
It Was a Town by Brocker Way
Glass Etudes by Etudes No. 6 by Philip Glass
Etude by Joep Beving
In Love and Justice by Colin Stetson
Happy Days are Here Again by Ben Selvin & The Crooners
End of Summer Part 2 by Johann Johannsson
Less Likely by Trent Reznor
1929 by Merle Haggard

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#74 ATOMIC DAWN - Complementarity and Uncertainty

On the eve of the Second World War, physicists learn of the possibility of splitting the atom. Two rival nuclear programs emerge and the race to the atomic bomb begins...
Original music for this series by https://mountainstandardtime.substack.com/
Additional music by Kali Malone, Benoît Pioulard, Zoe Keating, Nine Inch Nails, Choral Arts Northwest, and The Louvin Brothers.
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