Episode summary: A billionaire family’s private bridge empire shaped Detroit for decades, sparking battles over power, neighborhoods, and the future of an international crossing.

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Episode summary: Episode 5: All Costs

Episode summary: Send us a text Corruption persists not because people like it, but because it becomes embedded in the incentive structure of the state, creating feedback loops that reinforce themselves and resist reform. • A prebend is a type of benefice historically given to clergymen, now a usefu...

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Episode summary: Why the most rejected generation is also the most productive—and what that means for America’s future.

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Episode summary: Episode 4: Mr. Nobody From Nowhere

Episode summary: When Rebekah and Evan Lockard’s daughter, Naomi, was diagnosed with a devastating ultra-rare genetic disease, they didn’t know where to turn. Then they found Terry Pirovolakis, an IT professional who had made a gene therapy for his son with the…

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Episode summary: Bread Is Life: Kashmir’s Sacred Flame

Episode summary: Gene therapy is based on a simple-sounding, yet deceptively complicated premise: adding or replacing faulty genes to fix medical problems. A compelling idea that came out of breakthroughs in DNA research, the field grew lightning fast. But the death…

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Episode summary: The brilliant Roman love poet is the poster boy for teen angst. He feels everything intensely, from the stealing of his favourite napkin to the death of his lover Lesbia’s pet sparrow. And then he dies young. Of course the Romantics loved him, as do his biographer Dr Daisy Dunn and...

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Episode summary: Dan Saladino explores stories of food and ‘the elements’, the theme of this year’s Oxford Food Symposium. Expect surprising insights on earth, fire, air, water and much more.For more than forty years the Symposium has celebrated, explored and shared research by scholars, enthusiasti...

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