The Power of One

By Frequency Podcast Network / Macleans

What's The Power of One about?

The extraordinary stories of six ordinary heroes who made history, from the spy who saved D-Day to the greatest whistleblower of all time. One person can change the world. Here’s how.

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The Power of One episodes:

12.13.2019
The woman who brought down a notorious mob boss
Eunice Hunton Carter, a granddaughter of slaves, went on to become the lawyer who built the case against Charles “Lucky” Luciano, one the 20th century’s most powerful criminal kingpins. It was an assignment fraught with danger, but one Carter performed...
12.09.2019
The woman who reimagined the modern city
Gabriella Gómez-Mont is neither an urban planner nor an engineer nor a politician. She’s an artist. But as creative director of Mexico City’s Laboratorio para la Ciudad (Laboratory for the City), she has tackled some of the thorniest problems confronting...
12.02.2019
The world’s biggest whistleblower
One spring day, Bradley Birkenfeld boarded a flight out of Geneva, beginning a journey that would make him one of the greatest whistleblowers in financial history. The former banker with UBS provided information to U.S. authorities that would shatter Swiss...
11.22.2019
The woman who hunts illegal arms merchants
Kathi Lynn Austin has targeted, investigated and helped to bring down some of the world’s most dangerous arms dealers, exposing transactions that fuelled the Rwandan genocide and shutting down smuggling networks that helped power years of civil war in the...
11.15.2019
The Man Who Stood Up To Putin
It’s been a decade since Sergei Magnitsky was tortured and killed in a Moscow prison. In that time, his name has become synonymous with rule-of-law and international justice—even as those principles come under attack around the world. It is memorialized...
11.08.2019
The fabulist who saved D-Day
On this 75th anniversary year of D-day, the world marked the invasion that started the liberation of France from Nazi rule. Forgotten in the celebrations was a lynchpin of that operation, a man operating very far from the front.Juan Pujol...
10.28.2019
Coming Soon: The Power of One
History doesn’t call them heroes—but only because not enough people know their stories.The Power of One is a podcast dedicated to the extraordinary stories of ordinary people whose actions have dramatically changed the world in some way. Subscribe to hear...

What's The Power of One about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The Power of One episodes:

The woman who brought down a notorious mob boss

The woman who reimagined the modern city

The world’s biggest whistleblower

The woman who hunts illegal arms merchants

The Man Who Stood Up To Putin

The fabulist who saved D-Day

Coming Soon: The Power of One