ENCORE The Kidnapping of Patty Hearst | The Plot | 1
American Scandal
Wondery
4.6 • 18.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Media heiress Patricia Hearst moves to Berkeley, intent on building a new life. In Oakland, a group of political radicals plot a deadly attack.
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| 0:13.5 | This episode previously aired in 2022. |
| 0:17.1 | A listener note, this episode contains descriptions of violence |
| 0:20.1 | and may not be suitable for a younger audience. |
| 0:34.1 | It's February 4, 1974. |
| 0:37.6 | It's a sleepy Monday night in Berkeley, California, and Patricia Hurst is curled up on a couch |
| 0:42.6 | watching an episode of Mission Impossible on TV. |
| 0:46.2 | Hurst yawns, and she turns over on the sofa, letting her slippers dangle from the edge of her |
| 0:51.1 | toes. |
| 0:52.2 | Hurst is 19 years old. |
| 0:54.1 | She's 5'2, petite, with brown hair and bangs. |
| 0:58.1 | As an undergrad at UC Berkeley, spending an evening watching lowbrow TV isn't exactly |
| 1:03.2 | her idea of an exciting time. |
| 1:05.5 | But it's not that bad. |
| 1:06.9 | At least she has company. |
| 1:08.7 | Over on the other side of the couch, her fiancé is lounging back with a book in his |
| 1:12.7 | lap. Steve Weed is a shaggy but handsome 26-year-old with wire-rimmed glasses. He's a philosophy grad student at |
| 1:20.2 | UC Berkeley, the kind of guy who seems to understand how things really work. And that's a big part of |
| 1:25.7 | why Hearst was drawn to him. She comes from a wealthy family, |
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