Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created one of the most recognizable characters of all time, Sherlock Holmes. But the author felt he had much more to offer, and grew so frustrated with the detective that he ultimately threw him off a waterfall. This week, we give Sir Arthur his due. It’s the doctor, would-be statesman and soldier, devoted husband and seeker of the spiritual realm — in his own voice — on the Angry History Show.
NASA just published dozens of audio clips from space, letting us hear galactic events like the lightning storms of Jupiter for the first time. Episode #30 looks back at humanity’s baby steps into that final frontier, from the first Soviet flight and the Eagle landing, to Owen’s uncle piloting the Curiosity rover to the red Martian sands. From JFK to James T. Kirk, on the Angry History Show.
On May 6, 1937, the largest airship that’s ever taken to the air — the German zeppelin LZ-129 Hindenburg — burst into flames on landing at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey, killing 36. What caused the fire that consumed the pride of Adolf Hitler’s air fleet? All that through the eyes of newsman Herb Morrison, whose famous, “Oh, the Humanity!” is etched into the pages of history.
You know the voices of our TV age presidents, but what did the earlier ones sound like in the days of wax cylinders and phonographs? For Presidents Day, Angry History rolls the earliest presidential voices from President Benjamin Harrison in 1889, through William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover in 1932 — and we even debunk a fake Grover Cleveland clip along the way.
We climb into the Wayback Machine to bring you Yule Tide memories from Christmases past. Hear about A Charlie Brown Christmas shocking CBS, the Grinch, Apollo 8, and the origin of the mysterious Steve Martin/Paul Simon/Billy Joel bootleg performance of Silver Bells. All this, plus the chatteratti’s big question about Santa Claus’s ethnicity and much more under the tree, on the last Angry History of 2013.
Fifty years ago, Americans experienced a black swan event – a shot that literally came out of nowhere and changed the nation’s course. With a generous helping of archival audio, Owen and Dean share how pioneers in the young medium of television covered the JFK assassination the day it happened. What they got wrong. What they got right. How the assassin compared to others who have targeted presidents. This week, on the Angry History Show.
December 7, 1941 – In the hours after the Japanese betrayal at Pearl Harbor, a handful of teams deployed to cities around the nation to interview the average person-on-the-street about the attacks and the new normal: America at War. Seventy-two years later, Dean and Owen examine these amazing, very personal recordings. It’s America, in her own words.
