Great Stories about Great Storytellers
GREAT STORIES about GREAT STORYTELLERS shares insights into storytellers whose names you no doubt recognize—names like Edgar Allen Poe, Steven Spielberg John Grisham and Walt Disney—but reveals the backstories you probably never heard about them. The podcast features different kinds of storytellers—authors, directors, playwrights and even a poet or two. In short 10-15 minutes episodes, this fun and sometimes funny podcast features anecdotes and tidbits about storytellers, with each episode spotlighting a modern storyteller like Tom Clancy or a classical name like Charles Dickens, but in a very different light.
Great Stories about Great Storytellers
Thomas Paine--the Father of the American Revolution
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Randy Overbeck
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In this episode, you'll learn--
- the struggles Paine went through before he found "his voice"
- the critical way Benjamin Franklin intervened to send Paine to America
- how Paine's writings persuaded the common man to the ideas of liberty and freedom
- how, despite Paine's tremendous influence on the Revolution, his life ended in absurdity and infamy
Check out the backstories you never knew about the storytellers you love!