The people that time forgot podcast

Alan Turing had profound significance for the emerging science of computing. He lived in a hotbed of codebreakers who stopped Hitler in his tracks by hacking the Enigma code.  He is the father of AI.  He also had a theory about Monopoly.   He was fascinated by data patterns and algorithms and he was convinced that there was a code-based tactic to playing and winning.  If you have a mobile phone, you hold a piece of Alan in your han...

She was a Dadaist, pioneer and writer  (1885–1948) She was a vulnerable artist who had droves of men wrapped around her little finger: the poet Erich Mühsam called her an "erotic genius", for Hermann Hesse she was "a fairy-tale bird and a little angel", and her partner Hugo Ball asked admiringly: "Are you aware of the sheer power of your singing voice?"   She took risks, agitating for revolution and fo...

Nellie Bly became hugely famous in 1887 when she went undercover to report a story for The New York World newspaper.  This was an  undercover assignment for which she agreed to feign insanity to investigate reports of brutality and neglect at the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island.   Despite being in perfect health, four doctors along her entrance route to Blackwells Island pronounced her ‘positively demented’. ...

This episode documents the amazing inventor Hedy Lamarr.  Hedy was not only one of the most beautiful women in the world in the 1930's but she also invented the precursor to wifi, GPS and the internet (amongst other things).  Despite this invention being valued at 30 billion dollars today she never received a penny.  This is a tailer for The People that Time Forgot podcast.  These are people that have been written out of histo...

The Michelins were a secret weapon for many Hollywood producers, directors, writers, and production designers. They both worked with Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Mel Brooks, Stanley Kubrick, Roman Polanski and many more but much of their work went uncredited.  Harold was one of the most talented storyboard artists in Hollywood, creating images for everything from The Ten Commandments (1956) to The Fly (1986); he also became ...