Did you know that the novel "Lolita" would not exist if Vladimir Nabokov’s wife hadn’t stopped her husband from burning the manuscript? Or that Gandhi learned his legendary method of passive resistance from his wife? Or that the person responsible for Maya Angelou’s genre-defining memoir was her good friend James Baldwin? Significant Others is a narrated, nonfiction podcast about folks just beyond the spotlight of history. Each episode tells the story of a talented, difficult and little-known individual who altered the destiny of their better-known partner, child, sibling, or friend, and impacted the world they left behind. Narrated and written by Liza Powel O’Brien and featuring the voices of Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Jameela Jamil, Rita Wilson, Timothy Olyphant, Lisa Kudrow and many more.

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Bonus Episode: Eric Roth on the Role of the Screenwriter 2023-10-26
Bonus Episode: Benjamin Binstock on Examining Vermeer 2023-09-28
Bonus Episode: Laurie Sandell on Ruth Madoff 2023-08-24
Bonus Episode: Dr. Mali Heled Kinberg on James Joyce and Nora Barnacle 2023-07-27
Bonus Episode: Marc Grossman on Helen and Cesar Chavez 2023-06-29
Bonus Episode: Anna Malaika Tubbs on Significant Mothers 2023-05-11
Bonus Episode: Elizabeth Winkler on if Shakespeare was a Woman 2023-04-27
Bonus Episode: Mo Rocca on the Art of the Obituary 2023-03-30
Bonus Episode: Heather Cox Richardson on Presidents and First Ladies 2023-02-28
Jake Tapper on the Significant Relationship Between Political Parties 2023-01-12
Bonus Episode: Dana Schwartz on Royal Partnerships 2022-12-19
Bonus Episode: Stacy Schiff on Samuel Adams 2022-12-01
Malcolm Gladwell on Dr. Spock 2022-09-08
Jane Cheney Spock 2022-09-07
Julie Lythcott-Haims on Sir Leslie Stephen 2022-09-01
Sir Leslie Stephen 2022-08-31
Mark Harris on Molly Day Thacher and Elia Kazan 2022-08-25
Molly Day Thacher 2022-08-24
W. Kamau Bell on James Baldwin and Maya Angelou 2022-08-18
James Baldwin and Maya Angelou 2022-08-17
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