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Small World is the podcast where you are the topic of discussion. Join hosts Austin Newborn, Chris Long, James Flowers, and Nathaniel Pearson as we interview different guests to learn about their lives, experiences, and insights. Small World exists to show that we are not so different from one another and that we all have something to learn from one another. Everyone's story is important to us. After all, it is a small world. This podcast is a Small World Media Production.

In twenty-two wonderfully articulate essays, Barbara Kingsolver raises her voice in praise of nature, family, literature, and the joys of everyday life while examining the genesis of war, violence, and poverty in our world From the author of High Tide in Tucson, comes Small Wonder, a new...

In the fall of 1973, the Greek oil shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, husband of President John F. Kennedy's widow, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and arguably the richest man in the world, proposed to build an oil refinery on the New Hampshire coast, in the town of Durham. But three women vehemently opposed the project. Small Town, Big Oil is the story of how the residents of Durham, led by three women, out-organized, out-witted, and out-maneuvered the governor, media, and Onassis cartel to hand the powerful Greek billionaire the most humiliating defeat of his business career.

Life for a World War II paratrooper was grave and perilous; John H. Canfield's experience was no different. However, this young man found himself in so many crazy—sometimes humorous—situations that he almost forgot about how dangerous it was. Filled with pranksters and superiors full of bravado and an unfortunate brush with racial bigotry with a fellow African American soldier, Canfield shares his many stories from basic training and jump school. But his best stories are from the war.

Sometimes, the smallest ideas spark the biggest changes. Tiny Revolutions is a podcast about the humble inventions, unnoticed habits, and small flashes of creativity that quietly transformed the way we live — from the paperclip to the emoji, from the safety pin to the coffee filter.Each episode reveals the story behind a seemingly simple idea: who created it, how it spread, and why it changed the world in ways no one expected. Blending history, creativity, and everyday life, this series celebrates the inventors, thinkers, and even accidents that made our daily world what it is today.

The Small and the Brave is a story of the real life experiences of author Rosi Stachel. Viewed from the standpoint of a sensitive young refugee during WWII, her account offers firsthand commentary of the courage and strength needed for survival.