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🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Margaret talks with Jamie Loftus about Baba Yaga, the Slavic legend who eats children and occasionally helps people.
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| 0:04.6 | Malcolm Gladwell here. |
| 0:05.9 | This season on Revisionous History, we're going back to the spring of 1988 to a town in northwest Alabama, |
| 0:11.8 | where a man committed a crime that would spiral out of control. |
| 0:15.6 | And he said, I've been in prison 24, 25 years. |
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| 1:07.3 | Hello, and welcome to cool people who did cool stuff and welcome to the month of October. |
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| 1:18.1 | It means spooky month and I love spooky things. |
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