Curated playlist

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Brian T. DelaneyBrian T. Delaney voiced Scarecrow on Batman Unlimited and the male Sole Survivor in Fallout 4.
Christopher Kelly (historian)Historian Christopher Kelly argues that Attila the Hun was a thoughtful, effective leader. His 2009 book argued it.
Tarnya CooperA miniature portrait of Elizabeth I turned up in a house clearance in 2012. Tarnya Cooper exhibited it.
Travis WillinghamAt six feet four inches, Travis Willingham kept losing on-camera acting parts. His agent steered him back to voice work.
Jeff PerrenJeff Perren wrote four pages of rules for toy soldiers. They grew into the game Chainmail with Gary Gygax.
RaekwonRaekwon was accidentally shot four times in a crossfire. He later called it an "important eye opener."
Ed StarkEd Stark was on the small team that reworked the Dungeons and Dragons world for fourth edition.
Walter Everett (musicologist)How does a music theorist study Beatles songs everyone already knows? Walter Everett wrote a two-volume answer.
Retha WarnickeHistorian Retha Warnicke argues Anne Boleyn was born in 1507, not 1501. Most historians long assumed the earlier date.
Bryan BurkBryan Burk co-founded Bad Robot Productions with J. J. Abrams in 2001. He became its Executive Vice President.
Eric Goldberg (game designer)Eric Goldberg helped turn a friend's home game, Paranoia, into a published role-playing game.
Tom ShoneTom Shone argued the summer blockbuster deserved serious study, not scorn.
Stephen Glover (screenwriter)Donald Glover hired his younger brother Stephen to co-write Atlanta with no TV writing experience.
James Graham-CampbellJames Graham-Campbell studied Viking gold and silver found across Scotland. His 1995 catalogue spans AD 850 to 1100.
Yolanda SaldívarYolanda Saldívar, an American former nurse born in 1960, shot the singer Selena in Corpus Christi, Texas, on the 31st of March 1995. Selena was pronounced dead at 1:05 pm that same day. The woman who fired the shot was no stranger to her.…
Danny PorushDanny Porush once told securities regulators that he was merely "a figurehead" at his own brokerage. Born in February 1957, he became one of the best-known names in a stock fraud case that unfolded across the 1990s. Whether the figurehead…
Russo brothersThe Russo brothers made their first film with student loans and credit cards. They later directed Avengers: Endgame.
Chris Perkins (game designer)Chris Perkins retired from Dungeons and Dragons in April 2025 and joined Critical Role's game company by June.
ND StevensonA class assignment at art school became the webcomic Nimona. It later became a National Book Award finalist.
J. D. DillardJ. D. Dillard's father was the second African-American ever selected to fly for the Blue Angels.
Jared Lee LoughnerAt 2:05 on the morning of the 8th of January 2011, Jared Lee Loughner left a voicemail for a friend. "Hey man, it's Jared. Me and you had good times. Peace out. Later." The message was short and casual. Within hours, a shooting in the…
Robert John BardoRobert John Bardo had a sentence ready when the apartment door opened: "I forgot to give you this." The date was the 18th of July 1989, and the woman in the doorway was the actress Rebecca Schaeffer, a stranger he had stalked for three…
The Duffer BrothersThe Duffer Brothers turned down Florida State's film school because it would not let the twins study together.
Laura LoomerLaura Loomer is an American activist whose surname has become a verb. To be "Loomered" is to be fired or damaged in some way for alleged disloyalty to Donald Trump. Few people earn that kind of reputation, and fewer earn it after being…
Hannah FryHannah Fry told a BBC Four audience in 2018 that she was about to simulate a fatal outbreak across the whole United Kingdom. If the experiment worked, she said, it would "save lives when, not if, a real pandemic hits." The programme was…
Naomi ZackPhilosopher Naomi Zack argues a government's duty is to plan ahead for disasters.
Claudia GrayClaudia Gray is a pen name, and she has written Star Wars books and Jane Austen murder mysteries.
Christopher DuntschChristopher Duntsch was accused of injuring 33 of the 38 patients he treated as a neurosurgeon in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, all in less than two years. Thirty-one of those patients were maimed. Two died. He became known by the nickname…
Chris AvelloneChris Avellone is an American video game designer and comic book writer, and in June 1995 he flew to Irvine, California, to answer one hard question. The head of an Interplay division wanted to know how he would design a video game in the…