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317. Churchill's Photographer: From Escaping Genocide to MLK

12/18/2025 • 48 min

Who was Karsh and how did he become one of the most famous portrait photographers of the 20th century? How did Karsh escape from the Armenian Genocide as a child? What was the story behind some of the most famous photographs of Churchill, Einstein, Castro, Queen Elizabeth II, and Martin Luther King? Anita and William explore the fascinating life of one of the… Play episode

316. Hitler's Photographer: Nazi Secrets, Eva Braun, & Escaping Justice
Introducing: The Rest Is Science
315. Controversy, Colonialism, & V.S. Naipaul
314. Rudyard Kipling: Villain or Visionary? (Part 3)
313. Rudyard Kipling: Escaping India & Writing The Jungle Book (Part 2)
312. Rudyard Kipling: Son of Empire (Part 1)
311. Cricket In India: Beating The Brits At Their Own Game (Part 2)
310. The Origin of The Ashes & The Killer Cricket Scandal (Part 1)
309. Tintin, Nazis, & Soviets
308. Asterix and Obelix, Babar The Elephant, & Colonial Cartoons
307. Austen vs Brontë: Unmasking Slavery Heiresses
306. Joseph Conrad: From Russian Exile To The Heart of Darkness
305. Orwell: Dark Secrets, The CIA, & His Forgotten Failures (Part 4)
304. Orwell: Animal Farm, 1984 & Totalitarian Dystopia (Part 3)
303. Orwell: Fighting Fascism In The Spanish Civil War (Part 2)
302. Orwell: The Anti-Imperialist In India & Burma (Part 1)
301. Gaza: The First Arab-Israeli War & The Creation of The Gaza Strip (Pa…
300. Gaza: The 1948 War (Part 10)
299. Gaza: The Palestinian Revolt, The Black and Tans, & Bomber Harris (Pa…
298. Gaza: The British Occupation of Palestine (Part 8)
297. Gaza in WW1: A Rematch For Gallipoli (Part 7)
296. Ottoman Gaza: Gunpowder Conquests & Rising Nationalism (Part 6)
295. Crusader Gaza: Saladin & Richard The Lionheart (Part 5)
294. Gaza & The Islamic Conquest (Part 4)
293. The Gaza Erotic Literature Festival: Byzantine Gaza (Part 3)
292. Ancient Gaza: From The Assyrians to The Romans (Part 2)
291. Ancient Gaza: The Philistines (Part 1)
290. Medieval India’s Alexander The Great: The Cholas (Part 2)
289. Medieval India’s Game of Thrones: The Cholas (Part 1)
288. Suez Crisis: The End of The British Empire (Part 5)
287. Suez Crisis: Lies, Cyanide Pills, & Soviet Tanks (Part 4)
286. Suez Crisis: Hungary Revolts & Britain Bombs Egypt (Part 3)
285. Suez Crisis: The Secret Meeting Between Israel, Britain & France (Par…
284. Suez Crisis: The British Imperialist vs The Arab Nationalist (Part 1)
283. Partition: East Pakistan Becomes Bangladesh (Part 6)
282. Partition: The Birth of The Kashmir Conflict (Part 5)
281. Partition: Why Was India Split In Two? (Part 4)
280. Partition: The Creation of Pakistan (Part 3)
279. Partition: How Dubai Almost Became Part of India (Part 2)
278. Partition: India’s Break With Burma (Part 1)
277. America Drills Through Hell’s Gorge (Part 5)
276. The Biggest Corruption Scandal in French History (Part 4)
The Great Fire of London
275. The Battle To Build The Panama Canal (Part 3)
274. Pirates of Panama: Francis Drake Strikes Spain's Empire (Part 2)
273. Panama’s Brutish Conquistador Who Found The Pacific and Lost His Head…
272. Solving The Mystery of America's Lost Colony
271. Canada’s Dark Secret: Stolen Children, Unmarked Graves, & Survival St…
270. The Day The Brits Burned The White House (Ep 4)

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