From the fall of the Taliban until its return, people all over Afghanistan planned their lives around Afghan Star. People would pack into apartments. Villages would hook up generators to a single tv so crowds could watch. New Year’s celebration

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Introducing: The Sicilian Inheritance

Apr 2nd, 2024 2m 59s

Every family has an origin story – for author Jo Piazza (Under the Influence, Wilder) her family's is a murder mystery. For as long as she can remember the Piazzas have told the story of their Sicilian roots going back over a hundred years ago:

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Introducing: On Musk with Walter Isaacson

Dec 12th, 2023 3m 23s

What is it like to shadow Elon Musk for two years? To sit courtside as he builds a rocket? Or tears apart an engineer? Or couch surfs at the homes of billionaires? And how on earth do you make sense of it all? Walter Isaacson is the biographer

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Introducing OUTLAWS: The Good Thief

Jul 13th, 2023 1m 51s

Vassilis Palaikostas, aka “Greece’s Robin Hood” has been on the lam for 14 years. In his absence, legends of his generosity have grown. But no one knows where he is, or if the stories are even true.Here’s what we do know: there’s a million Eur

The Good Thief - Ep 1. How to Rob Banks and Influence People

Jul 12th, 2023 44m 37s

Miles and the team learn how Vassilis and his gang pulled off the biggest bank robbery in Greek history without firing a single shot.Like what you hear? Follow us @kscope_nyc on Twitter and Instagram. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in

Death Squad

May 18th, 2023 39m 46s

A coup in Haiti empowers a new paramilitary squad, bold enough to face down the U.S. military. In Miami, the black book resurfaces – and the killings continue.Available to all on May 18, 2023.Like what you hear? Follow us @kscope_nyc on Twi

SILENCED - EP 1: The Black Book

Apr 27th, 2023 42m 54s

When music promoter and DJ Jean-Claude Olivier is shot outside a club in Miami, Little Haiti wonders – how much further is this going to go?Like what you hear? Follow us @kscope_nyc on Twitter and Instagram. See omnystudio.com/listener for pri

THE LAST SOVIET - EP 8: A Common Goal

Apr 12th, 2023 31m 49s

The collapse of the Soviet Union heralds a new era in international space travel and leads to the arrival of Lance Bass in Star City. But what happens when Lance’s mission goes wrong? Like what you hear? Follow us @kscope_nyc on Twitter and In

THE LAST SOVIET - EP 7: Homecoming

Apr 5th, 2023 40m 1s

Sergei finally returns to a new country. But what will happen to his beloved space program now cosmonauts are selling their space medals in the metro? Like what you hear? Follow us @kscope_nyc on Twitter and Instagram.See omnystudio.com/listen

THE LAST SOVIET - EP 6: Pioneers and Pirates

Mar 29th, 2023 35m 49s

A starry eyed young wheeler-dealer from Toronto sets out on a mission. To get a coca cola can onto Sergei’s space station. But soon the idealism of post Communist Russia turns dark as Sergei’s new country is plunged into chaos.Like what you he

THE LAST SOVIET - EP 5: Three Hot Days in August

Mar 22nd, 2023 36m 18s

Sergei makes the decision to stay in the space station. But a few weeks later something happens that changes everything. Mikhail Gorbachev disappears. What happens over the next 3 days will decide the future of the Soviet Union once and for all

THE LAST SOVIET - The Lance Files

Mar 15th, 2023 42m 50s

In this mini-episode, we take a pit stop with our host Lance Bass in Star City. He gives us the no holds barred account of training with the Russians: from flying a fighter jet drunk on vodka to elective heart surgery. Plus, we hear about why h

THE LAST SOVIET - EP 4: VK3CFI

Mar 8th, 2023 28m 58s

A woman in suburban Australia makes contact with the Soviet Space Station. Little does she know she’s about to become a lifeline to Sergei as his country collapses. Like what you hear? Follow us @kscope_nyc on Twitter and Instagram.See omnystu

THE LAST SOVIET - EP 3: No Experience Necessary

Mar 1st, 2023 48m 36s

A woman is driving home from work one day when she hears an ad on the radio that changes her life. “Astronaut Wanted No Experience Necessary.” This unassuming Brit who worked in the Mars Bar factory in the suburbs would end up traveling with ou

THE LAST SOVIET - EP 2: Salyut 7

Feb 22nd, 2023 33m 12s

The world’s only space station goes dark. And now Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev has to lead one of the riskiest missions ever flown in space. He alone is tasked with saving the Soviet Space program from catastrophe.Like what you hear? Follo

THE LAST SOVIET- EP 1: Let’s Go

Feb 15th, 2023 38m 54s

Traveling at five miles a second, 250 miles above the Earth’s surface, Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev wakes to a message from his handlers on the ground: the Soviet Union is collapsing. And so is the Soviet Space agency. You have a choice: co

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Introducing: The Last Soviet Hosted By Lance Bass

Feb 8th, 2023 3m 46s

Boyband sensation and little known Russian trained astronaut Lance Bass has a story to tell you. It’s a thriller about the last Soviet cosmonaut stuck in orbit as his country and a way of life disintegrates beneath him. With only one trusted so