Pelé
Jun 29, 202622mEp. 255
Pelé was more than a footballer. Born Edson Arantes do Nascimento in Brazil in 1940, he became a global sporting icon before adulthood, won three World Cups, turned Santos into an international attraction, and later help
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Pelé was more than a footballer. Born Edson Arantes do Nascimento in Brazil in 1940, he became a global sporting icon before adulthood, won three World Cups, turned Santos into an international attraction, and later help
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Arthur Ashe was more than a Wimbledon champion. Born in segregated Richmond, Virginia, he became one of the most important figures in tennis history, breaking racial barriers at the US Open, Wimbledon, and the Davis Cup.
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Jim Lovell never walked on the Moon, but his place in space history is beyond question. From naval aviation and the Gemini programme to the first human journey around the Moon on Apollo 8, Lovell became one of NASA's mos
Richard Feynman was one of the most original physicists of the twentieth century, a Nobel Prize winner whose work helped transform quantum electrodynamics and whose teaching made difficult ideas feel alive. From his chil
Thurgood Marshall was not just a brilliant lawyer. He was one of the most important figures in the history of civil rights in the United States. In this episode of Compact Biographies, Maeve Cartwright follows Marshall's
Alfred Russel Wallace was one of the great scientific minds of the nineteenth century, yet he is often remembered as the man standing just outside Darwin's shadow. In this episode, we follow Wallace from rural Wales to t
Born in Miami in 1927 and raised in The Bahamas, Sidney Poitier went from a difficult early life and odd jobs in New York to become one of the most important actors in film history. He broke barriers throughout the 1950s
Mary Anning was one of the most important fossil hunters in history. Working along the cliffs of Lyme Regis in the early nineteenth century, she uncovered remarkable prehistoric creatures including ichthyosaurs and plesi
Scott Joplin, often called the King of Ragtime, transformed American music with compositions that blended African American musical traditions with classical structure. His famous works, including Maple Leaf Rag and The E
Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most radical and influential thinkers of the eighteenth century, long before the word feminism even existed. Born in London in 1759, she rose from an unstable and often violent childhoo
Tina Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock on 26 November 1939 in Brownsville, Tennessee, and went on to become one of the most commanding performers in modern music. From early success on the American touring circuit to walk
Dorothy Hodgkin changed science by learning how to see what others could not. Born on 12 May 1910, she became a pioneer of X-ray crystallography, revealing the structures of penicillin, vitamin B12, and insulin and trans
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