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September 5, 2026
385. Saint Patrick: Slave, Rebel, & Ireland’s Patron Saint (Ep 3)
Empire · William Dalrymple & Anita Anand · 55 min
Why we chose this episode
A kidnapped teenager becomes a national symbol, and almost none of it happened the way the parade suggests. History as an argument about who owns a story.
Listen for this question
Which story about where you come from have you never checked?
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Who it’s for: Anyone who inherited a national myth without reading the footnotes.
Best way to listen
A long walk, ideally somewhere old.
After the episode
Look up one origin story you repeat.
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