Most recently, he premiered a fictionalized political thriller in 2017 called Terms, which had eerie though unintended overlaps with the 2016 election. From there, Graham started recording songs and audiobooks. Graham has been sound editing and hosting podcasts since 2005, when he and a friend produced an amateur show about the local music scene in their hometown of Dallas, Texas. They hired PhD-certified scholars to write the scripts and host Lindsay Graham to bring them to life with his silken drawl. The producers of American History Tellers were smart in curating their show. But add the intimacy of someone speaking into your ear as if he chose those words for you, and suddenly it works. The “imagine you are” technique also succeeds because it is a method so perfectly fitted for podcasting. They remind us that everyone is implicated in the events of our time, no matter how removed one might feel. Roosevelt, Neil Armstrong or even Al Capone. Its characters have no desire to be historical, making them far more relatable than Franklin D. But this podcast decides to look at mundane individualism. History is often told from the perspective of a few influential characters, speaking to our nation’s love of heroic individualism. The banality of these characters’ lives is refreshing. Want to receive our latest podcast reviews and episode recommendations via email? Sign up here for our weekly newsletter. There’s a saloon goer who watches as his favorite bartender is arrested for serving alcohol in teapots. Louis who learns that her son has been exposed to radioactive fallout from nearby nuclear testing. “Imagine that it’s late January 1951 and you work for Kodak,” says the calming voice of host Lindsay Graham, who opens each podcast with “no, not that Lindsey Graham.” We’re asked to pretend that we are many different characters throughout the episodes, and – though it seems like this technique would become tired – the effect is powerful each time. More often, the characters remain nameless and we are asked to fill in their identities with our own. Hoover and his agents believed that Glass’s left-leaning tendencies could mean he was a communist. American History Tellers brings to light a lesser-known fact about Glass: he was investigated by the FBI for donating $5 to an inter-racial youth group in 1944 – an inquiry that came at the behest of FBI director J. Bentley Glass who is probably best remembered today as the man who said that if a nuclear Armageddon occurred, cockroaches would be the sole survivors. In the Cold War series, we meet a geneticist named H. Reexamining these well-trodden pasts, AHT illuminates new details by casting regular Americans as the protagonists. The show digs deep into the big-name periods of United States history with the Cold War and Prohibition up first. American History Tellers really is that good. A week later, it was still holding strong at Number 2 and thousands of listeners had tuned in. Overnight – literally – the show hit Number 1 on the Apple Podcast charts. On January 3, the podcast network Wondery launched a series called American History Tellers.
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