World’s Greatest Love Stories Podcast

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World’s Greatest Love Stories is a podcast that celebrates the most compelling, inspiring, memorable real-life love stories from yesterday and today. Each episode embarks on the historical and romantic journey of one couple, unveiling the events and unique circumstances that bring them together and that create an unforgettable story. By combining intimate details with the most defining moments of each relationship, the series examines what it takes to cultivate meaningful love while giving us all a better understanding of why we have come to know the mantra, “Love does conquer all.” Subscribe to hear each of the latest episode released on the first Wednesday of every month.

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S1 Episode 12: Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon – The Daughters of Bilitis

Jul 26 2021 44 mins  
Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon have the distinction of being the first gay couple to be married in the state of California. But their journey to the altar is far from an easy one. That's because, after that fateful day in 1949 when girl meets girl, the two will spend much of their 55-year love affair fighting for basic human rights beginning with the formation of the first lesbian rig

S1 Episode 11: Cesar & Helen Chavez - An Unbreakable Union

Jun 28 2021 30 mins  
Cesar Chavez is famous the world over for being a relentless labor leader and civil rights activist who spent a lifetime fighting for the rights of farmworkers and their families. For decades, he worked to get this disenfranchised group higher wages, safer working conditions, and a better life in general. But he doesn’t undertake this monumental crusade alone, not by a long shot.

S1 Episode 10: General Tom Thumb & Lavinia Warren | The World's Biggest "Little" Love Story

Jun 07 2021 43 mins  
On February 10, 1863, a wedding occurs in Manhattan’s Grace Church that takes New York City and the rest of the world by storm. The “fairy wedding” as it will be known, has a guest list that consists of the crème de le crème of high society and is so popular with the masses that it knocks coverage of the American Civil War (which is at its height) off the cover of the New Y

S1 Episode 9: Eija-Ritta Berliner-Mauer & The Berlin Wall | The “Object” of My Affection

May 18 2021 21 mins  
Great love stories come in all shapes and sizes and the one Swedish model-maker Eija-Ritta Eklöf has for her man is no exception. The love affair begins in 1961 when she is just seven years old and watching a television program about an electrifying new construction project in Berlin, Germany. Unfolding on screen right before her eyes is the birth of what she will later describe a

S1 Episode 8: Pierre & Marie Curie | Love & Fallout

Apr 26 2021 29 mins  
Pierre and Marie Curie are the most successful and renowned husband and wife team in the history of science. Together they make discoveries in radioactivity (even coining the term ‘radioactivity’) that will lead to everything from the modern X-ray to radiation therapy for cancer treatment. But their path to true love and scientific innovation is far from an easy one as it's fra

S1 Episode 7: John & Abigail Adams | A Revolutionary Marriage

Mar 30 2021 31 mins  
John and Abigail Adams are arguably, America’s first power couple. John is one of the United States’ founding fathers and its 2nd President. And although she grows up in a time and place when a woman’s role is a domestic one and they're meant to be seen not heard, Abigail is a true outlier. She is highly intelligent, multilingual, politically savvy, has an insatiable curiosit

S1 Episode 6: Sir Elton John & David Furnish | Saturday Night’s Alright… for Lovin'

Mar 16 2021 27 mins  
Pop icon Sir Elton John may be rich, famous, and wildly successful, but by his own admission, his love life followed a much different trajectory. After years of alcohol and drug abuse which fueled toxic and destructive relationships with both men and women, Elton knew something had to change. So after getting sober at 43, he decides to bring some new people into his life by throwin

S1 Episode 5: Tom Hanks & Rita Wilson | My Big Fat Greek Love Story

Feb 28 2021 29 mins  
One of Hollywood’s true power couples, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson are known the world over for the characters they play on-screen and the red-carpet treatment they receive in life. Lesser known is how the two came together and what makes their nearly three-decade-long relationship work. Like a Hollywood screenplay, Tom and Rita’s love affair comes complete with near-death experi

S1 Episode 4: Jackie & Rachel Robinson | Love, Hate & Baseball

Feb 23 2021 29 mins  
Jackie Robinson is the first black player to make it into Major League Baseball in the modern era. He is also one of the most important and admired people in baseball history… if not in American history. But what many don’t know about Jackie Robinson is that his rise to the big leagues was no solo effort. Although his wife Rachel doesn’t swing at any pitches or field any grou

S1 Episode 3: King Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson | W.E. Are One

Feb 05 2021 33 mins  
Falling in love with and marrying a prince has been written about and fantasized about by women for centuries. So when American socialite Wallis Simpson meets the Prince of Wales in 1931, a fairy tale story begins to take shape… sort of. That’s because when the prince is unexpectedly thrust onto the throne and becomes King of England, things begin to get complicated. The romanc