ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Each week, we aim to bring you interesting information about interesting people in the form of short, compact biographies, which can be read on our website or listened to as a podcast episode. We hope you enjoy them.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
11 minutes
English
United States
321 episodes
since July 11, 2014
episodic
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~50.93% of listeners are from United States.
🇺🇸
US
50.93%
🇮🇪
IE
37.39%
🇦🇺
AU
2.46%
🇬🇧
GB
1.17%
🇨🇦
CA
0.90%
🇩🇪
DE
0.78%
🇪🇸
ES
0.70%
🇫🇷
FR
0.58%
🇮🇳
IN
0.50%
🇿🇦
ZA
0.43%
🇱🇧
LB
0.39%
🇩🇰
DK
0.39%
🇷🇴
RO
0.39%
🇳🇴
NO
0.31%
🇸🇬
SG
0.23%
🇧🇪
BE
0.15%
🇵🇰
PK
0.15%
🇮🇩
ID
0.15%
🇹🇼
TW
0.15%
🇸🇪
SE
0.11%
🇯🇵
JP
0.11%
🇺🇦
UA
0.11%
Others
1.52%
* Data source: directly measured on Listen Notes. real-time
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
James Cook learned his seamanship carrying coal along the English coast before naval service and painstaking surveys opened a route to command. This Compact Biographies episode follows his life from Yorkshire and Newfoundland to three Pacific expeditions, exploring the science behind the voyages, T…
SEARCH PAST EPISODES
Search past episodes of Compact Biographies.
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Kim Philby became one of Britain's most trusted intelligence officers while secretly serving the Soviet Union. From political radicalisation at Cambridge and underground activism in Vienna to wartime counter-espionage and a sensitive Washington posting, his career depended on ability, connections a…
A young prince with little expectation of becoming king, Alfred inherited Wessex during a desperate struggle against Viking invasion. Driven into the Somerset marshes, he returned to defeat Guthrum at Edington, then set about strengthening his kingdom through fortified settlements, legal reform and…
A boy from Iowa became one of the central figures in the rise of Silicon Valley. This episode follows a physicist and entrepreneur from his student days at Grinnell and MIT to the creation of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel. Along the way, we explore the integrated circuit, the team behind Intel'…
Martin Luther entered a monastery seeking peace with God and became a central figure in a religious upheaval that transformed Europe. This episode of Compact Biographies follows his life from a mining family and university studies to the Ninety-Five Theses, his refusal to recant at Worms and his re…
Virginia Woolf changed how novels could tell a story. From her childhood in Victorian London to the conversations of Bloomsbury, the founding of the Hogarth Press and the creation of Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and Orlando, this episode follows the life behind her literary experiments. Discover…
Steve Irwin grew up helping his parents care for reptiles at their small wildlife park in Queensland. He went on to catch and relocate crocodiles, take over the family park and bring his extraordinary enthusiasm for wildlife to television audiences around the world. Alongside his wife, Terri, he tu…
Frida Kahlo transformed physical pain, political conviction and emotional turmoil into some of the most recognisable paintings of the twentieth century. After a devastating bus crash ended her hopes of studying medicine, she taught herself to paint while confined to bed. Her turbulent marriage to D…
Charlemagne rose from Frankish prince to king, conqueror and emperor, creating a realm that stretched across much of western and central Europe. His long reign included the conquest of the Lombards, decades of war against the Saxons, campaigns against the Avars and the establishment of new frontier…
Lord Byron was one of the defining figures of the Romantic movement, but his poetry formed only one part of an extraordinary life. Born into a troubled aristocratic family, he became a literary celebrity whose political defiance, turbulent relationships and rejection of convention fascinated Regenc…
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Compact Biographies, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
PODCAST SEARCH ENGINE
You can use our website to search 3,835,644 podcasts and 197,455,554 episodes by people, places, or topics.
If I have seen further than others, it is by listening to podcasts and standing upon the shoulders of
giants.
‐ Isaac "Llamacorn" Newton
SEARCH PAST EPISODES
Search past episodes of Compact Biographies.
CLAIM THIS PODCAST
Why to claim podcasts?
If you are a podcaster, the best way to manage your podcasts on Listen Notes is by claiming your Listen Notes
podcast pages.
It is a great, free way to engage the podcast community and increase the visibility of your podcasts.
After claiming your Listen Notes podcast pages, you will be able to:
✓
Manually refresh the RSS feed to sync up
✓
Get a verified badge (
✓
) alongside with your podcast name on Listen Notes
✓
Post classified ads for sponsorship,
guests, co-hosts,
cross-promotion...
✓
Respond to listener comments on Listen Notes
✓
Use speech-to-text techniques to transcribe your show and
edit transcripts
✓
Improve the presence of your podcasts, e.g., self-service
podcaster interview...
✓
If you share your Listen Notes page and at-mention @ListenNotes
on X (formerly Twitter),
our official X (formerly Twitter) account will retweet to promote
your show to our followers.
Coming soon:
◯ Self-service promotion on Listen Notes
◯ Track your podcast stats on Listen
Notes, e.g., listens, page
views...
◯ Manage episodes
EDIT
Thank you for helping to keep the podcast database up to date.
