241 - The Death of Edgar Allan Poe
Do Go On
Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke
4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2020
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
Edgar Allan Poe is often referred to as the most influential American writer of all time. He pioneered the short story and also wrote the first ever detective novel. But he saved his greatest mystery for last... his death. Why did the greatest writer of his generation go missing for a week, before turning up in another city, wearing clothes that didn't belong to him?
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. |
| 0:03.0 | Visit Planet Broadcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go On! |
| 0:24.0 | My name is Dave Warnakie and as always I'm sitting here with Matt Stewart and Jess Perkins. |
| 0:29.0 | Hi Dave! |
| 0:31.0 | Hi Matt! |
| 0:32.0 | Bubbies, hello! |
| 0:34.0 | Hi Jess! |
| 0:35.0 | Hi Dave! |
| 0:37.0 | There we go. |
| 0:38.0 | Hi actually! |
| 0:39.0 | I'm sitting in all eight octaves. |
| 0:40.0 | Wow! |
| 0:41.0 | All of them. |
| 0:42.0 | There's no more than that. |
| 0:43.0 | That's amazing! |
| 0:44.0 | Oh, actually! |
| 0:45.0 | So we're just going to quickly let everyone know about some exciting stuff going on, |
| 0:53.0 | including at the Stupid Old Channel where we've got our web series up to episodes |
| 0:57.0 | are up so far about the badass Nancy Wake who was from the World War II and had one of the most amazing lives. |
| 1:05.0 | And also the first episode was about the history of the Hollywood sign. |
| 1:09.0 | And the other thing I just want to quickly mention is that |
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