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Revisionist History

Malcolm Gladwell's journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood.

Sounds,42 episodes

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Saigon, 1965
In the 1960s the Pentagon set up a research project in an old villa in downtown Saigon.
06 Sep 2024,41 mins
Hitler's Olympics
Hitler’s Olympics, Part 9: A Plague on Both Your Houses.
What is the right way to reconcile something pure with the messiness of the real world?
23 Aug 2024,45 mins
Hitler's Olympics
Hitler’s Olympics, Part 8: “Vater, It is to be Fayetteville”
The fight over the games provided Americans a chance to study Nazi Germany.
16 Aug 2024,34 mins
Hitler's Olympics
Hitler’s Olympics, Part 7: Long Jump, Tall Tale
The hidden life of one of America’s iconic sports heroes, Jesse Owens.
09 Aug 2024,44 mins
Hitler's Olympics
Part 6: The Jiggle & the Giddy Up
What really happened at the long jump pit that day between Jesse Owens and Luz Long?
02 Aug 2024,38 mins
Hitler's Olympics
Part 5: The Amateur’s Hour
A German Jewish high-jumper is determined to get her shot at Olympic greatness.
26 Jul 2024,37 mins
Hitler's Olympics
Part 4: Outcast in Olympia
The cheerleader for the American Olympic movement was a tycoon named Avery Brundage.
19 Jul 2024,41 mins
Hitler's Olympics
Part 3: Mustache to Mustache
The wolf met with the chicken. Guess who won?
12 Jul 2024,35 mins
Hitler's Olympics
Part 2: Pangloss, Polonius, Prufrock
Faced with a moral dilemma, America needed the wisdom of Solomon. But it got Sherrill.
05 Jul 2024,32 mins
Hitler's Olympics
Part 1: The Blue-Eyed Tornado
In the early 1930s, Hitler granted a rare interview to US journalist Dorothy Thompson.
28 Jun 2024,36 mins
Hitler's Olympics
Introducing... Hitler's Olympics
Hitler swept to power in the mid-1930s and set out to stage the most extravagant Olympics
27 Jun 2024,4 mins
Outliers, Revisited
Revisionist History runs a mysterious experiment at the University of Pennsylvania.
14 Jun 2024,35 mins
“I Was A Stranger and You Welcomed Me”
Do we underestimate the value of ordinary acts of kindness?
31 May 2024,33 mins
Star Struck
A pop culture what-if experiment about the 1937 version of A Star is Born.
17 May 2024,35 mins
In Triplicate
A mystery that begins with the half-baked idea of an obscure California bureaucrat.
03 May 2024,34 mins
Blue Seattle with Cameron Crowe | Development Hell
Cameron tells the story behind “Blue Seattle” for the very first time.
12 Apr 2024,49 mins
Labour of Love with M. Night Shyamalan | Development Hell
In this episode, M. Night Shyamalan tells Malcolm about the script that haunts him.
05 Apr 2024,35 mins
I Am Superman with Patty Jenkins | Development Hell
Between her big hits, Patty Jenkins wrote an R-rated fairy tale, starring a dog.
29 Mar 2024,40 mins,
The Birthday Party with Charles Randolph | Development Hell
A masterclass on a screenwriter's many minefields.
22 Mar 2024,45 mins
Bubbles with Isaac Adamson | Development Hell
The story behind a biopic about a chimpanzee named Bubbles, sidekick to the King of Pop.
15 Mar 2024,45 mins
The Variable Man with Gary Goldman and Angus Fletcher | Development Hell
Why did Gary and Angus have so much trouble selling another Philip K. Dick adaptation?
08 Mar 2024,40 mins
Blink with Stephen Gaghan | Development Hell
A failed vampire love story, Leonardo DiCaprio’s Prius and an unexpected turn.
01 Mar 2024,42 mins,
Welcome to Development Hell
The untold stories about Hollywood projects that never left the page.
26 Feb 2024,3 mins
The Pushkin Prize for Egregiously Deceptive Self-Promotion
This your invitation to the greatest award show no one’s heard of: the Pushkin Prizes
16 Feb 2024,40 mins
Project Dillard
Part two of a two-part series.
02 Feb 2024,34 mins
Lord of the Rankings
US News & World Report has been using a secret formula to rank the best universities.
19 Jan 2024,32 mins
Board Game Season
How life shows up in games and what games teach us about risk, life, love and ... farming
29 Dec 2023,48 mins,
Guns Part 6: “Sin is the failure to bother to care”
At the end of our series, we offer a lesson on the obligations and costs of compassion.
15 Dec 2023,29 mins
Guns Part 5: The Footnote
In a forgotten study of convicted murderers, the author left a devastating footnote.
15 Dec 2023,38 mins,
Guns Part 4: Moral Hazard
Robert Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullet in 1968. Today, would he have lived?
15 Dec 2023,43 mins