Podcasts by TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST
Trojan War: The Podcast is a serialized telling of the stories that together comprise the epic story of the Trojan War. From The Judgement of Paris through The Face that Launched a Thousand Ships to Achilles
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EPISODE 21 “ODYSSEY: THE PODCAST, Episode 1” from 2019-04-22T12:44:23
A Short Message From Jeff
And so, my faithful travelling companions through all 23 hours of Trojan War: The Podcast, our journey together continues. Odyssey: The Podcast picks up the sto...
EPISODE 1“THE APPLE OF DISCORD” from 2016-09-05T12:00:24
ODYSSEY: THE PODCAST - my 14 episode, 24 hour sequel to Trojan War: The Podcast - is now recorded and waiting for you. Subscribe through your usual podcast provider, or go to odysseythepodcast.com!...
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EPISODE 2“THE TORCH” from 2016-09-04T04:01:54
THE STORY: (54 minutes) A queen is visited by a terrifying nightmare. Priests discern what the nightmare means. And a king is faced with a soul-wrenching dilemma: “do I kill my child, or allow my ...
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EPISODE 3“THE BIRTH OF ACHILLES” from 2016-09-03T04:01:04
THE STORY: (38 minutes) A miraculous child survives not only the homicidal raging of an angry demi-god, but also an icy immersion in a magic river and the venomous bite of a deadly snake. Then th...
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Episode 4“THE JUDGEMENT OF PARIS” from 2016-09-02T08:01:38
THE STORY: (30 minutes) Hermes, the messenger god, locates a “highly qualified” judge for a beauty contest between three powerful, vain and vindictive goddesses. One of the goddesses is cruising...
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EPISODE 5“SPARTA” from 2016-09-01T08:01:12
THE STORY: (30 minutes) The transition from shepherd to Crown Prince of Troy isn’t easy, but with some help from Aphrodite (and from the royal harem), Paris manages to settle in to Troy quite nic...
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EPISODE 6“HELEN OF SPARTA” from 2016-08-30T08:01:31
THE STORY: (37 minutes) This episode has it all! A kinky story about an amorous swan, a disturbing story about a butchered horse, a cautionary story about a foolish husband, and a too-familiar ...
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EPISODE 7“THE MAD KING” from 2016-08-30T08:01:30
THE STORY: (43 minutes) Operation Trojan Storm needs the craft and cunning of Odysseus, Greece’s most clever man. But Odysseus has mysteriously vanished. Agamemnon puts his best man, Palamedes...
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EPISODE 8“FINDING ACHILLES” from 2016-08-29T08:01:35
THE STORY: (49 minutes) Agamemnon doesn’t dare launch his invasion of Troy until Achilles - Greece’s very own “weapon of mass destruction” – is part of the operation. So Odysseus, the cleverest...
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EPISODE 9“IPHIGENIA” from 2016-08-28T08:01:24
THE STORY: (45 minutes) In this horrifying episode Agamemnon, Commander in Chief of the Greek’s Operation Trojan Storm, is confronted with an existential question. How badly does he want to invade ...
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EPISODE 10“BEACHHEAD” from 2016-08-27T08:01
THE STORY: (53 minutes) Agamemnon’s 100,000-strong army finally makes it to the beaches of Troy, and readies itself for one day of glorious, decisive,"winner-take-all"battle against Hector’s Tro...
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EPISODE 11“ACHILLES DISHONORED” from 2016-08-26T08:00:14
THE STORY: (46 minutes) Ten years into the siege of Troy a priest of Apollo arrives at the command tent of Agamemnon, Commander in Chief of the Greeks. The priest makes a simple request of Agam...
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EPISODE 12“PARIS: PRINCE OF TROY” from 2016-08-25T08:00:24
THE STORY: (58 minutes) Hector proposes an audacious “exit strategy” to Agamemnon: a deal to end the war with just one man dead. Intense diplomatic negotiations follow. And just when it appear...
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EPISODE 13“TERRIBLE, GLORIOUS WAR” from 2016-08-24T08:00:48
THE STORY: (56 minutes) As Greek and Trojan forces openly clash on the plains of Troy the goddess Athena imbues a Greek warlord – Diomedes – with fearsome, godlike powers of combat. So with the...
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EPISODE 14“DEADLY DESTINY” from 2016-08-23T08:00:55
THE STORY: (57 minutes) This episode, pivotal to the entire Trojan War Epic, features philosophy, bedroom farce, and genuine tragedy -- all in equal measure. Temptation plays the lead: Agamemnon ...
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EPISODE 15“THE WRATH OF ACHILLES” from 2016-08-22T08:00:40
THE STORY (65 minutes) Homer’s Iliad opens with the storyteller’s invocation to the Muse: “The wrath of Achilles – sing it now, goddess, sing through me ….” When Achilles learns that his belove...
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EPISODE 16“PRIAM” from 2016-08-21T08:00:52
THE STORY (50 minutes) This episode traces the personal griefs of two bitter enemies: Achilles, who has lost his best friend and soul mate, Patroclus; and King Priam, who has lost his son and hi...
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EPISODE 17“ACHILLES’HEEL” from 2016-08-20T08:00:14
THE STORY (59 minutes) With Hector dead, the desperate Trojans grasp on to increasingly ridiculous deus ex machina solutions to save their city from the Greeks. And then old King Priam hatches ...
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EPISODE 18“ODYSSEUS ASCENDANT” from 2016-08-19T08:00:54
THE STORY (50:00 minutes) A dispute over honour leads to a leadership shift (and a profound tragedy) in the Greek army. Meanwhile, Paris Prince of Troy discovers that “nemesis” is a word of par...
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EPISODE 19“THE TROJAN HORSE” from 2016-08-18T08:00:35
ODYSSEY: THE PODCAST - my 14 episode, 24 hour sequel to Trojan War: The Podcast - is now recorded and waiting for you. Subscribe through your usual podcast provider, or go to odysseythepodcast.com!...
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EPISODE 20“THE SACK OF TROY” from 2016-08-17T08:00:58
ODYSSEY: THE PODCAST - my 14 episode, 24 hour sequel to Trojan War: The Podcast - is now recorded and waiting for you. Subscribe through your usual podcast provider, or go to odysseythepodcast.com!...
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