Unfaithful
Stories of cheating on your spouse are as old as time. These three short stories help us understand how--and why--people are unfaithful.
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Timeless tales re-told. Each week you’ll hear two or three classic stories based around a common, and timeless, theme. Because history may not always repeat itself, but it sure rhymes
This One's A Steal
At an early age we learn that crime has its consequences, especially if we steal another's property. This episode has four stories that show us how ir...
Lie To Me
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Not-So-Great Expectations
Expectations usually free up brain bandwidth for the BIG stuff, but they can also imprison us in a flat view of the world. In this episode, three cau...
The Wise Fool
Every country, near and far, seems to have this one stock character in its folklore. I first became fascinated by this character as a 9-year-old when ...
Clever Is As Clever Does
Are geniuses born, or made? In this week's episode we hear two ancient stories about brilliant youths, and we see both perspectives to this question. ...
It Was All A Dream...
Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. A common motif in stories, movies, and music, is to bring in a dream as foreshadowing for what wil...
Let's Play "Pretend"
Stories since the beginning of time have been thrilling us by having characters take on false identities. In this episode we look at one legendary son...
Infatuation, Thy Name is Love
Love stories are as old as time, but then again, so are stories about its creepy sibling-emotion: infatuation. Unrequited love often brings a feeling ...
A Stranger Comes To Town
Tolstoy once said that “all great literature is one of two stories: someone goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town.” In this first episode we ...